American leadership remains highly unpopular with Afghans as suffering in that country has reached record levels, according to a new Gallup survey.

Gallup published findings Thursday from in-person polling it conducted in Afghanistan this summer, coinciding with the one-year anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal and the Taliban’s takeover.

None of the survey numbers provide a reason for hope, but one really stands out: 98% of the Afghans that were surveyed rated their life so poorly that Gallup considers them to be “suffering.”

Jay Loschky, Gallup’s senior regional director for Middle East & North Africa World Poll, said that’s the highest percentage of people categorized as “suffering” since their World Poll surveys began about 15 years ago.

Loschky said their annual World Poll covers about 140 countries.

For some context, the latest level of “suffering” Gallup measured in the U.S. population came in at 5.6%.

“When I look at some of this data we collected in Afghanistan in 2022, I think it’s tough to say anything other than it just feels extremely depressing and extremely hopeless,” Loschky said.

He said nearly every metric looks worse now than it did five years ago. Many of the metrics have declined even further since the U.S. withdrawal in August 2021.

The percentage of Afghans who say they can’t afford food for their families shot up 11 points to 86% since last year, according to Gallup.

The Taliban imposed severe restrictions on Afghan women, barring teenage girls from school and imposing strict dress codes among the constraints.

Gallup found just 22% of Afghans now say women in their country are treated with respect and dignity. That’s another record low, and it’s down from 31% in 2021.

A record-low 11% of Afghans say children in their country have the opportunity to learn and grow.

And 90% of Afghans say it’s difficult or very difficult to get by on their household income.

The “suffering” designation is determined by Gallup on a self-evaluation scale of zero to 10. Based on how a person answers, they are categorized as “thriving,” “struggling” or “suffering.”

The average Afghan that took part in the survey rated their life as 1.3 out of 10.

And they have no hope for the future. The same group put their expected life five years from now at only a 1.

“The United States and many other countries came in, they occupied that country for 20 years, at one point in time we did have some positive data, and then things just kind of really bottomed out over the last couple of years,” Loschky said. “Now the Taliban’s back in power, and there’s the feeling that nothing’s going to get better.”

Only 18% of the surveyed Afghans approve of U.S. leadership.

That is actually an uptick from last year – 14% approval – during the midst of the U.S. withdrawal.

“I don’t think it’s unfair to say that many Afghans were extremely disappointed with how the U.S. left,” Loschky said. “There was obviously a feeling of abandonment from the United States and from the international community, period.”

There was a degree of support for the U.S. at one point, Loschky said. Ten years ago, half of the Afghan population they surveyed would say they had a positive view of the U.S.

Loschky said the international community represented hope for many Afghans.

And, despite billions in humanitarian aid since the withdrawal, Loschky said he’s not seeing a meaningful change in how Afghans view the U.S.

“We’ve lost that support,” he said.