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Ranking published by Forbes magazine From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Between 2009 and 2018 (with absence in 2017) the business magazine Forbes had compiled an annual list of the world's most powerful people. The list had one slot for every 100 million people, meaning in 2009 there were 67 people on the list, and by 2018, there were 75. Slots were allocated based on the amount of human and financial resources that they had sway over, as well as their influence on world events.[1]
Note: No list was released for 2017.
2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015[2] | 2016[3] | 2018[4] | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Barack Obama | Hu Jintao | Barack Obama
President of the United States |
Vladimir Putin | Xi Jinping
General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party | ||||
2 | Hu Jintao | Barack Obama
President of the United States |
Vladimir Putin | Angela Merkel | Barack Obama
President of the United States |
Angela Merkel
Chancellor of Germany |
Donald Trump | Vladimir Putin
President of Russia | |
3 | Vladimir Putin
Prime Minister of Russia |
Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud | Hu Jintao | Vladimir Putin
President of Russia |
Xi Jinping
General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party |
Barack Obama
President of the United States |
Angela Merkel
Chancellor of Germany |
Donald Trump
President of the United States | |
4 | Ben Bernanke | Vladimir Putin
Prime Minister of Russia |
Angela Merkel
Chancellor of Germany |
Bill Gates
Co-Chair of the Gates Foundation |
Francis | Xi Jinping
General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party |
Angela Merkel
Chancellor of Germany | ||
5 | Sergey Brin
Larry Page |
Benedict XVI
Pope of the Holy See |
Bill Gates
Co-Chair of the Gates Foundation |
Benedict XVI
Pope of the Holy See |
Angela Merkel
Chancellor of Germany |
Xi Jinping
General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party |
Francis
Pope of the Holy See |
Jeff Bezos
Chairman and CEO of Amazon | |
6 | Carlos Slim
Chief Executive of Telmex |
Angela Merkel
Chancellor of Germany |
Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
King of Saudi Arabia |
Ben Bernanke
U.S. Chair of the Federal Reserve |
Bill Gates
Co-Chair of the Gates Foundation |
Janet Yellen
U.S. Chair of the Federal Reserve |
Bill Gates
Co-Chair of the Gates Foundation |
Janet Yellen
U.S. Chair of the Federal Reserve |
Francis
Pope of the Holy See |
7 | Rupert Murdoch
Chairman of News Corporation |
David Cameron | Benedict XVI
Pope of the Holy See |
Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
King of Saudi Arabia |
Ben Bernanke
U.S. Chair of the Federal Reserve |
Bill Gates
Co-Chair of the Gates Foundation |
Janet Yellen
U.S. Chair of the Federal Reserve |
Bill Gates
Co-Chair of the Gates Foundation | |
8 | Mike Duke
Chief Executive of Walmart |
Ben Bernanke
U.S. Chair of the Federal Reserve |
Mario Draghi | Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
King of Saudi Arabia |
Mario Draghi
President of the European Central Bank |
David Cameron
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
Larry Page
Co-Founder of Google |
Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud | |
9 | Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
King of Saudi Arabia |
Sonia Gandhi | Mark Zuckerberg
Founder and CEO of Facebook |
Xi Jinping
General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party |
Mario Draghi
President of the European Central Bank |
Sergey Brin
Larry Page |
Narendra Modi | ||
10 | Bill Gates
Co-Chair of the Gates Foundation |
David Cameron
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
Mike Duke
Chief Executive of Walmart |
David Cameron
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
Larry Page
Co-Founder of Google |
Mark Zuckerberg
Co-Founder of Facebook |
Larry Page
Co-Founder of Google |
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