Washington ? In the eyes of much of the world, this is America: an inconsiderate lone wolf that has really good entertainment but really bad values, that wants war with Iraq just to get oil but still should remain as the only superpower on Earth.

The Pew Global Attitudes Project, a broad international survey released Wednesday, found that the United States was falling out of favor in 19 of 27 countries where a trend could be identified.

The dislike was especially striking in Muslim countries. Seventy-five percent of those surveyed in Jordan had an unfavorable opinion of America, as did 69 percent of Egyptians and Pakistanis and 59 percent of Lebanese. In Egypt, Jordan, Indonesia, Senegal, Turkey and Lebanon, the vast majority said they opposed the U.S.-led war on terrorism.

But ill will toward the United States also was found in supposedly friendly nations like Canada, Britain and Germany.

“The biggest headline is the slipping image of the United States, not simply that we’re not liked in the Muslim world,” said Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center. “But there is still a great reserve of good will toward the United States.”

The surveys were conducted by established survey organizations in each of the 44 countries between July and October, with polls done by phone in eight of the most developed countries and face-to-face in the others. The error margins ranged from plus or minus 2 percentage points to 4.5 points, depending on the sample size.

A generally favorable view of America is held in 35 of the countries that took part in the survey. Among Russians, U.S. popularity has surged 24 points, from 37 percent two years ago to 61 percent today. Similarly, 77 percent of Nigerians and 85 percent of Uzbeks had pro-U.S. views, up 31 percent and 29 percent respectively.

The most common criticisms of the United States are that it acts by itself, it pushes policies that widen the gap between rich and poor nations, and it doesn’t do enough to solve the world’s problems.

Americans don’t necessarily agree.

Seventy-five percent of Americans polled said U.S. foreign policy is considerate of others. But next door, only 25 percent of Canadians said America was a considerate world citizen. Perhaps surprisingly, U.S. foreign policy was deemed considerate by 53 percent of respondents in Germany, a harsh critic of President Bush’s position on Iraq.

World citizens admire American technology and culture, but not the spread of U.S. ideas and customs; 54 percent of Canadians, 67 percent of Germans, 71 percent of the French and 84 percent of Egyptians said it would be bad to spread American ideas and customs.

But Canadians — 77 percent of them — also said they liked American music, movies and TV. It was much the same for Venezuela (78 percent), Poland (70 percent), Japan (74 percent), Ivory Coast (84 percent) and Great Britain (76 percent).

U.S. officials have tried to do something about America’s image problem abroad. The White House established an office of “global communications” to provide in-depth explanations of President Bush’s foreign policy.

Madeleine Albright, secretary of state during the Clinton administration and chair of the Pew survey, said the fact that the United States was the world’s only superpower may have led to the results.

“In many ways, we are viewed as the rich guy living on the hill,” Albright said. “We have seen this coming since the end of the Cold War.”