---
"title": "Rating the Current Economy"
"description": "Just 11% of the public rates the economy as excellent or good, down from 17% in early February, and 26% in January."
"date": "2008-04-18"
"authors":
  -
    "name": "Russell Heimlich"
    "job_title": "Former web developer"
    "link": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
"url": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/short-reads/2008/04/18/rating-the-current-economy/"
---

# Rating the Current Economy

Just 11% of the public rates the economy as excellent or good, down from 17% in early February, and 26% in January — judgments about the national economy are now as negative as they were during the recession of the early 1990s. In August 1993, 10% of Americans rated the economy as excellent or good in a Gallup survey. A clear majority of Americans (56%) now rate economic conditions as poor, while another 32% say they are only fair. [Read More](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/pubs/780/dismal-views-of-the-national-economy--its-the-inflation-stupid)