The World's Most Powerful People

The World's Most Powerful People is a list of the most powerful people in the world, compiled annually by Forbes magazine since 2009 . The number of people on the list is directly correlated to the world population . The rule is: one place per 100 million people. There were 67 list places in 2009, 68 in 2010, then 70 in 2011, 74 in 2016 and currently 75.

Allocation of places

The places are awarded according to the following criteria, among others:

• the extent of power over human capital as well as financial capital
• the level of influence on world political events

Focus: German-speaking area

Angela Merkel has been the most powerful woman in the world without interruption since the list was introduced. For the German-speaking countries she is (2nd place in 2012 and 2015, currently 4th place) the most powerful person since the list was introduced, followed by Pope Benedict XVI. (5th place 2012). On the 2015 list, the German Martin Winterkorn as Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen was 58th and the then Swiss FIFA boss Joseph Blatter was 70th. The German Klaus Schwab , permanent President of the World Economic Forum in Geneva , was listed for the first time and last time in 2009 .

2018

The current list names the 75 most powerful people out of the world's population of 7.5 billion, including five women (~ 6.7%).

rank	Change compared to previous year	State ality	person	Office or position	Age
1	▲		Xi Jinping	General Secretary of the Communist Party of China , President of the People's Republic of China , Chairman of the Central Military Commission of China	65
2	▼		Wladimir Putin	President of Russia	65
3	▼		Donald Trump	President of the United States	72
4th	▼	( )	Angela Merkel	German Chancellor	63
5	▲		Jeff Bezos	CEO of Amazon , richest person in the world	54
6th	▼	/	Francis	266. Pope of the Roman Catholic Church	81
7th	▬		Bill Gates	Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , founder of Microsoft	62
8th	listed for the first time		Mohammed bin Salman	Crown Prince , Defense Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia	32
9	▬		Narendra Modi	Indian Prime Minister	67
10	▼		Larry Page	Co-Founder of Google , CEO of Alphabet Inc.	43
11	listed for the first time		Jerome Powell	President of the US Federal Reserve (FED)	65
12	listed for the first time	( )	Emmanuel Macron	French President and Co-Prince of Andorra	40
13	▼		Mark Zuckerberg	CEO and Co-Founder of Facebook	34
14th	▼	( )	Theresa May	British Prime Minister	61
15th	▼		Li Keqiang	Chinese Prime Minister	62
16	▼		Warren Buffett	CEO of Berkshire Hathaway	87
17th	▲		Ali Khamene'i	Grand Ayatollah , political and spiritual leader of Iran	78
18th	▼	( )	Mario Draghi	President of the European Central Bank (ECB)	70
19th	▬		Jamie Dimon	CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co.	62
20th	▼		Carlos Slim Helu	Multi-billionaire, chairman of Telmex , (honorary) chairman of América Móvil	78
21st	▲		Jack Ma	CEO of the Alibaba Group	53
22nd	▲	( )	Christine Lagarde	Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)	62
23	▲		Doug McMillon	CEO of Walmart	51
24	▲		Tim Cook	CEO of Apple	57
25th	▼		Elon Musk	Founder and CEO of SpaceX , Co-Founder and CEO of Tesla Motors	47
26th	▼		Benjamin Netanyahu	Israel's incumbent Prime Minister	68
27	▲		Ma Huateng	Chairman and CEO of Tencent Holdings	46
28	▲		Larry Fink	Co-Founder and CEO of BlackRock	65
29	▬		Akio Toyoda	CEO of Toyota	60
30th	listed for the first time		John L. Flannery	CEO of General Electric	56
31	▲	( )	Antonio Guterres	Secretary-General of the United Nations since January 1, 2017	69
32	▲		Mukesh Ambani	Founder and Chairman of Reliance Industries	61
33	listed for the first time	( )	Jean-Claude Juncker	President of the European Commission	63
34	listed for the first time		Darren Woods	CEO of ExxonMobil	53
35	▼		Sergey Brin	Co-Founder of Google , President of Alphabet Inc.	44
36	▲		Kim Jong Un	"Supreme Leader" of North Korea	35
37	▼		Charles Koch	CEO of Koch Industries	82
38	▼		Shinzo Abe	Prime Minister of Japan since December 26, 2012	63
39	▼		Rupert Murdoch & family	Chairman of News Corp.	86
40	▲		Satya Nadella	CEO of Microsoft	51
41	▲		Jim Yong Kim	President of the World Bank	58
42	▲		Stephen Schwarzman	Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of the Blackstone Group	71
43	▼		Chalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan	President of the United Arab Emirates	70
44	▲		Haruhiko Kuroda	President of the Japanese Central Bank	73
45	▼		Abdel el-Sisi	President of Egypt	63
46	▼		Li Ka-shing	Chairman of CK Hutchison Holding and CK Assets Holding	90
47	▼		Lloyd C. Blankfein	CEO of Goldman Sachs Group	62
48	▲		Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	President of the Republic of Turkey	63
49	▲		Bob Iger	Chairman and CEO of Disney	67
50	listed for the first time		Michel Temer	President of Brazil	77
51	▲		Michael Bloomberg	CEO of Bloomberg	76
52	▲		Wang Jianlin	Chairman of the Dalian Wanda Group	63
53	▲		Mary Barra	Chairman and CEO of General Motors	56
54	listed for the first time		Moon Jae-in	President of South Korea	65
55	▼		Masayoshi Son	CEO of Softbank Group Corp.	60
56	listed for the first time	( )	Bernard Arnault	Multi-billionaire, President of Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton	64
57	▲		Justin Trudeau	Canadian Prime Minister	46
58	▲		Robin Li	Founder and CEO of Baidu	49
59	▼		Michael Dell	Founder, Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies	53
60	listed for the first time		Hui Ka Yan	CEO of Evergrande Real Estate	59
61	listed for the first time		Lee Hsien Loong	Prime Minister of Singapore	66
62	▲		Bashar al-Assad	President of Syria	52
63	▼		John Roberts	United States Chief Justice	63
64	▼		Enrique Peña Nieto	President of Mexico	51
65	listed for the first time		Kenneth C. Griffin	CEO of Citadel Investment Group	60
66	▲		Aliko Dangote	President and CEO of the Dangote Group	61
67	▲		Mike Pence	Vice President of the United States	58
68	listed for the first time		Qamar Javed Bajwa	de facto commander in chief of the armed forces of Pakistan	57
69	▲		Rodrigo Duterte	President of the Philippines	73
70	listed for the first time		Abigail Johnson	CEO of Fidelity Investments	56
71	listed for the first time		Reed Hastings	Founder and CEO of Netflix	57
72	listed for the first time		Robert Mueller	Government Official and Special Counsel	73
73	▼		Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi	Self- proclaimed Caliph of the Islamic State	46
74	listed for the first time		Joko Widodo	President of Indonesia	57
75	listed for the first time		Gianni Infantino	FIFA President	48

Historical lists

2016

The 2016 list names the 74 most powerful people at the time from the world's population of 7.4 billion, including nine women (~ 8.1%).

rank	Change compared to previous year	State ality	person	Office or position	Age
1	▬		Wladimir Putin	President of Russia	64
2	▲		Donald Trump	President of the United States	70
3	▼	( )	Angela Merkel	German Chancellor	62
4th	▲		Xi Jinping	General Secretary of the Communist Party of China , President of the People's Republic of China , Chairman of the Central Military Commission of China	63
5	▼	/	Francis	266. Pope of the Roman Catholic Church	79
6th	▲		Janet Yellen	President of the US Federal Reserve (FED)	70
7th	▼		Bill Gates	Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ; Microsoft founder	61
8th	▲		Larry Page	Co-Founder of Google , CEO of Alphabet Inc.	43
9	▬		Narendra Modi	Indian Prime Minister	66
10	▲		Mark Zuckerberg	CEO and Co-Founder of Facebook	32
11	▬	( )	Mario Draghi	President of the European Central Bank (ECB)	69
12	▬		Li Keqiang	Chinese Prime Minister	61
13	listed for the first time	( )	Theresa May	British Prime Minister	51
14th	▲		Jeff Bezos	CEO of Amazon	52
15th	▼		Warren Buffett	CEO of Berkshire Hathaway	86
16	▼		Salman ibn Abd al-Aziz	7. King and President of the Government of Saudi Arabia	80
17th	▼		Carlos Slim Helu	Multi-billionaire, chairman of Telmex , (honorary) chairman of América Móvil	76
18th	▬		Ali Khamene'i	Grand Ayatollah , political and spiritual leader of Iran	77
19th	▲		Jamie Dimon	CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co.	60
20th	▲		Benjamin Netanyahu	Israel's incumbent Prime Minister	67
21st	▲		Elon Musk	Founder and CEO of SpaceX , Co-Founder and CEO of Tesla Motors	45
22nd	▲		Jeffrey Immelt	CEO of General Electric	60
23	▼	( )	François Hollande	French President and Co-Prince of Andorra	62
24	▲		Rex Tillerson	CEO of ExxonMobil and designated US Secretary of State	64
25th	▼	( )	Christine Lagarde	Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)	60
26th	▬		Lloyd C. Blankfein	CEO of Goldman Sachs Group	62
27	▲		Doug McMillon	CEO of Walmart	50
28	▼		Jack Ma	CEO of the Alibaba Group	52
29	▼		Akio Toyoda	CEO of Toyota	60
30th	▬		Sergey Brin	Co-Founder of Google , President of Alphabet Inc.	43
31			Charles Koch	CEO of Koch Industries	82
32			Tim Cook	CEO of Apple	57
33			Li Ka-shing	Chairman of CK Hutchison Holding and CK Assets Holding	89
34			Larry Fink	Co-Founder and CEO of BlackRock	65
35			Rupert Murdoch & family	Chairman of News Corp.	86
36		( )	Antonio Guterres	Secretary-General of the United Nations since January 1, 2017	68
37			Shinzo Abe	Prime Minister of Japan since December 26, 2012	63
38			Mukesh Ambani	Founder and Chairman of Reliance Industries	60
39			Chalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan	President of the United Arab Emirates	70
40			Jay Y. Lee	Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Samsung Electronics	49
41			Ding Xuedong	Chairman and CEO of China Investment Corporation	58
42			Jim Yong Kim	President of the World Bank	58
43			Kim Jong Un	"Supreme Leader" of North Korea	35
44			Abdel el-Sisi	President of Egypt	63
45			Ma Huateng	Chairman and CEO of Tencent Holdings	46
46			Michael Dell	Founder, Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies	52
47			Haruhiko Kuroda	President of the Japanese Central Bank	73
48			Barack Obama	President of the United States until January 20, 2017	56
49			Khalid Al-Falih	Saudi Arabian Minister for Petroleum	58
50			John Roberts	United States Chief Justice	63
51			Satya Nadella	CEO of Microsoft	51
52			Stephen Schwarzman	Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of the Blackstone Group	71
53			Masayoshi Son	CEO of Softbank Group Corp.	60
54			Enrique Peña Nieto	President of Mexico	51
55			Michael Bloomberg	CEO of Bloomberg	76
56			Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	President of the Republic of Turkey	63
57			Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi	Self- proclaimed Caliph of the Islamic State	47
58			Alisher Usmanov	Founder and co-owner of Metalloinwest	64
59			Wang Jianlin	Chairman of the Dalian Wanda Group	63
60			Robin Li	Founder and CEO of Baidu	49
61			Ginni Rometty	CEO of IBM	60
62			Mary Barra	Chairman and CEO of General Motors	56
63			Bashar al-Assad	President of Syria	52
64			Travis Kalanick	Co-founder and former CEO of Uber Technologies	41
65			Carl Icahn	Founder of Icahn Capital Management	81
66			Justin Trudeau	Canadian Prime Minister	46
67			Bob Iger	Chairman and CEO of Disney	67
68			Aliko Dangote	President and CEO of the Dangote Group	60
69			Mike Pence	Vice President of the United States	58
70			Rodrigo Duterte	President of the Philippines	72
71			Aiman ​​az-Zawahiri	Leader of al-Qaeda	66
72			Sheldon Adelson	Chairman , CEO and Owner of Las Vegas Sands	84
73			Peter Thiel	Founders Fund partner	50
74			Chuck Schumer	Senate Minority Leader	67

2015

The 2015 list names the 74 most powerful people at the time from the world's population of 7.4 billion, including nine women (~ 12.2%).

rank	Change compared to previous year	State ality	person	Office or position	Age
1	▬		Wladimir Putin	President of Russia	63
2	▲	( )	Angela Merkel	German Chancellor	61
3	▼		Barack Obama	US President	54
4th	▬	/	Francis	266. Pope of the Roman Catholic Church	79
5	▼		Xi Jinping	General Secretary of the Communist Party of China , President of the People's Republic of China , Chairman of the Central Military Commission of China	62
6th	▲		Bill Gates	Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ; Microsoft founder	60
7th	▼		Janet Yellen	President of the US Federal Reserve (FED)	70
8th	▲	( )	David Cameron	former British Prime Minister	49
9	▲		Narendra Modi	Indian Prime Minister	65
10	▼		Larry Page	Co-founder of Google	42
11	▼	( )	Mario Draghi	President of the European Central Bank (ECB)	68
12	▲		Li Keqiang	Chinese Prime Minister	60
13	▼		Warren Buffett	CEO of Berkshire Hathaway	85
14th	listed for the first time		Salman ibn Abd al-Aziz	7. King and President of the Government of Saudi Arabia	80
15th	▼		Carlos Slim Helu	Multi-billionaire, chairman of Telmex , (honorary) chairman of América Móvil	75
16	▲	( )	François Hollande	French President and Co-Prince of Andorra	61
17th	▼		Jeff Bezos	CEO of Amazon	51
18th	▲		Ali Khamene'i	Great Ayatollah , political and spiritual leader of Iran	76
19th	▲		Mark Zuckerberg	CEO and Co-Founder of Facebook	31
20th	▼		Jamie Dimon	CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co.	59

2014

In 2014, as in 2013, the list consisted of a total of 72 people (derived from the then world population of 7.2 billion people), including nine women (~ 12.5%).

rank	Change compared to previous year	State ality	person	Office or position	Age
1	▬		Wladimir Putin	Russian President	62
2	▬		Barack Obama	US President	53
3	▬		Xi Jinping	General Secretary of the Communist Party of China , President of the People's Republic of China , Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission of China	61
4th	▬	/	Francis	266. Pope of the Roman Catholic Church	78
5	▬	( )	Angela Merkel	German Chancellor	60
6th	▲		Janet Yellen	President of the US Federal Reserve (FED)	68
7th	▼		Bill Gates	Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ; Founder and Chairman of the Board of Microsoft	59
8th	▲	( )	Mario Draghi	President of the European Central Bank (ECB)	67
9	▲		Sergey Brin	Co-founder of Google , Board Member for Special Projects	41
9	▲		Larry Page	Co-founder of Google	41
10	▲	( )	David Cameron	British Prime Minister	48
11	▼		Abdullah ibn Abd al-Aziz	6. King and President of the Government of Saudi Arabia	90
12	▲		Warren Buffett	CEO of Berkshire Hathaway	84
13	▲		Li Keqiang	Chinese Prime Minister	59
14th	▼		Carlos Slim Helu	Multi-billionaire, chairman of Telmex , (honorary) chairman of América Móvil	74
15th	listed for the first time		Narendra Modi	Indian Prime Minister	64
16	▼		Jeff Bezos	CEO of Amazon	50
17th	▲	( )	François Hollande	French President and Co-Prince of Andorra	60
18th	▲		Jamie Dimon	CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co.	58
19th	▲		Ali Khamene'i	Grand Ayatollah , political and spiritual leader of Iran	75
20th	▼		Rex Tillerson	CEO of ExxonMobil	62
21st	▲		Jeffrey Immelt	CEO of General Electric	58
22nd	▲		Mark Zuckerberg	CEO and Co-Founder of Facebook	30th
23	▲		Michael Bloomberg	Multi-billionaire, Mayor of New York City	72
24	▲		Charles G. Koch	CEO of Koch Industries	79
24	▲		David H. Koch	Vice President of Koch Industries	74
25th	▼		Tim Cook	CEO of Apple	54
26th	▬		Benjamin Netanyahu	Israeli Prime Minister	65
27	▬		Lloyd C. Blankfein	CEO of Goldman Sachs Group	60
28	▲	( )	Li Ka-shing	Chairman of Hutchison Whampoa and Chueng Kong Holdings	86
29	listed for the first time		Doug McMillon	CEO of Walmart	49
30th	listed for the first time		Jack Ma	CEO of the Alibaba Group	50
31	▼		Dilma Rousseff	Brazilian President	67
32	▲	/	Rupert Murdoch	CEO of News Corporation	83
33	▲	( )	Christine Lagarde	Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)	58
34	▲		Akio Toyoda	CEO of Toyota	58
35	listed for the first time		Jay Y. Lee	Vice President of Samsung	46
35	▲		Lee Kun-hee	Multi-billionaire, leader in the Samsung group, member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)	72
36	▲		Mukesh Ambani	Multi-billionaire, chairman of Reliance Industries	57
37	▼		Chalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan	President of the United Arab Emirates	67
38	▲		Masayoshi Son	Founder and CEO of Softbank	57
39	▲		Laurence Douglas Fink	Co-Founder and CEO of BlackRock	62
40	▼		Ban Ki-moon	UN Secretary General	70
41	▲		Robin Li	Co-founder and CEO of Baidu	46
42	▲		Igor Sechin	Deputy Prime Minister of Russia and Chairman of Rosneft	54
43	▼		Ding Xuedong	Chinese Vice Minister of Finance	55
44	▼		Bill Clinton	Former US President , Chairman of the Clinton Global Initiative	68
45	▲		Jim Yong Kim	World Bank President	55
46	▲		Park Geun-hye	South Korean President	62
47	most recently 2012 (70)		Alexey Miller	Chairman of Gazprom	52
48	▼		Haruhiko Kuroda	Governor (President) of the Bank of Japan	70
49	▼		Kim Jong Un	North Korean President	31
50	▼		Ali Al-Naimi	Saudi Oil Minister	80
51	listed for the first time		Abd al-Fattah as-Sisi	Egyptian President	60
52	▼		Elon Musk	Founder and CEO of SpaceX , Co-Founder and CEO of Tesla Motors	43
53	listed for the first time		Ma Huateng	chinese businessman	43
54	listed for the first time		Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi	as " Caliph Ibrahim " head of the self-proclaimed Islamic State Caliphate	44
55	▲		Virginia Rometty	CEO of IBM	57
56	listed for the first time		Leonard Blavatnik	American entrepreneur	57
57	▼		Lakshmi Mittal	Chairman of ArcelorMittal	64
58	▼	( )	Martin Winterkorn	former CEO of Volkswagen and Porsche SE	67
59	▼	( )	Bernard Arnault	Chairman of Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH)	65
60	▼		Enrique Peña Nieto	President of Mexico	48
61	▲		Alisher Usmanov	Russian oligarch	61
62	listed for the first time		Mary Barra	CEO of General Motors	53
63	▼		Shinzo Abe	Japanese Prime Minister	60
64	listed for the first time		Satya Nadella	CEO of Microsoft	48
65	▼		John Roberts	Presiding judge of the US Supreme Court	59
66	listed for the first time		Gina Rinehart	Australian mining entrepreneur	60
67	▼	( )	Margaret Chan	Director of the World Health Organization (WHO)	67
68	▼		Aliko Dangote	Founder and CEO of the Dangote Group	58
69	listed for the first time		Jeffrey Gundlach	Multi- billionaire, founder of DoubleLine Capital	55
70	▼		Joseph Blatter	FIFA President	78
71	▼		Terry Gou	CEO of Hon Hai Precision	64
72	▼		Yngve Slyngstad	CEO of the National Pension Fund of Norway (NBIM)	51

2013

For 2013 a total of 72 people are listed. Including nine women (12.5%; peak value since the list was introduced).

rank	Change compared to previous year	State ality	person	Office or position	Age
1	▲		Wladimir Putin	Russian President	61
2	▼		Barack Obama	US President	52
3	▲		Xi Jinping	General Secretary of the Communist Party of China , President of the People's Republic of China , Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission of China	61
4th	listed for the first time	/	Francis	266. Pope of the Roman Catholic Church	76
5	▼	( )	Angela Merkel	German Chancellor	59
6th	▼		Bill Gates	Board of Directors of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ; Founder and Chairman of the Board of Microsoft	58
7th	▼		Ben Bernanke	President of the US Federal Reserve	60
8th	▼		Abdullah ibn Abd al-Aziz	6. King , President of the Government of Saudi Arabia	89
9	▼	( )	Mario Draghi	President of the European Central Bank (ECB)	65
10	▲		Mike Duke	CEO of Walmart	63
11	▼	( )	David Cameron	British Prime Minister	47
12	▼		Carlos Slim Helu	Multi-billionaire, chairman of Telmex , (honorary) chairman of América Móvil	74
13	▲		Warren Buffett	CEO of Berkshire Hathaway	83
14th	▼		Li Keqiang	Chinese Prime Minister	58
15th	▲		Jeff Bezos	CEO of Amazon	50
16	▲		Rex Tillerson	CEO of ExxonMobil	62
17th	▲		Sergey Brin	Co-founder of Google , Board Member for Special Projects	39
17th	▲		Larry Page	Co-founder of Google	40
18th	▼	( )	François Hollande	French President and Co-Prince of Andorra	58
19th	▲		Tim Cook	CEO of Apple	53
20th	▼		Dilma Rousseff	Brazilian President	66
21st	▼		Sonia Gandhi	President of the Indian Congress Party	67
22nd	▲		Jamie Dimon	CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co.	59
23	▼		Ali Khamene'i	Grand Ayatollah , political and spiritual leader of Iran	74
24	▲		Mark Zuckerberg	CEO and Co-Founder of Facebook	30th
25th	▼		Jeffrey Immelt	CEO of General Electric	58
26th	▼		Benjamin Netanyahu	Israeli Prime Minister	65
27	▲		Lloyd C. Blankfein	CEO of Goldman Sachs Group	59
28	▼		Manmohan Singh	Indian Prime Minister	80
29	▼		Michael Bloomberg	Multibillionaire and Mayor of New York City	73
30th	▲	( )	Li Ka-shing	Chairman of Hutchison Whampoa and Chueng Kong Holdings	86
31	▲		Charles G. Koch	CEO of Koch Industries	78
31	▲		David H. Koch	Vice President of Koch Industries	74
32	▼		Ban Ki-moon	UN Secretary General	70
33	▼	/	Rupert Murdoch	CEO of News Corporation	83
34	▼		Chalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan	President of the United Arab Emirates	66
35	▲	( )	Christine Lagarde	Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)	58
36	listed for the first time		Ding Xuedong	Chinese Vice Minister of Finance	54
37	▲		Enrique Peña Nieto	Mexican President	48
38	▼		Mukesh Ambani	Multi-billionaire and chairman of Reliance Industries	57
39	listed for the first time		Haruhiko Kuroda	Governor (President) Bank of Japan ( BoJ )	69
40	▼		Ali Al-Naimi	Saudi Oil Minister	79
41	listed for the first time		Lee Kun-hee	Multi-billionaire and executive in the Samsung group, member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)	71
42	▬		Laurence Douglas Fink	Co-Founder and CEO of BlackRock	61
43	▲		Bill Clinton	Former US President , Chairman of the Clinton Global Initiative and husband of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton	67
44	▼		Akio Toyoda	CEO of Toyota Motor	58
45	▲		Masayoshi Son	Founder and CEO of Softbank	56
46	▼		Kim Jong Un	North Korean President	30th
47	▲		Elon Musk	Founder and CEO of SpaceX , Co-Founder and CEO of Tesla Motors	42
48	▲		Terry Gou	CEO of Hon Hai Precision	63
49	listed for the first time	( )	Martin Winterkorn	Chairman of Volkswagen and Porsche SE	66
50	▼		Jim Yong Kim	World Bank President	53
51	▼		Lakshmi Mittal	Chairman of ArcelorMittal	64
52	listed for the first time		Park Geun-hye	South Korean President	61
53	listed for the first time		Dmitry Medvedev	Russian Prime Minister	48
54	▲	( )	Bernard Arnault	Chairman of Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH)	65
55	▼		Bill Gross	Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of Pimco	70
56	listed for the first time		Virginia Rometty	CEO of IBM	56
57	listed for the first time		Shinzo Abe	Japanese Prime Minister	59
58	listed for the first time		Larry Ellison	CEO of Oracle	69
59	▼	( )	Margaret Chan	Director of the World Health Organization (WHO)	66
60	last 2010 (52)		Igor Sechin	Deputy Prime Minister of Russia	53
61	▲		Robin Li	Co-founder and CEO of Baidu	45
62	▼		John Roberts	Presiding Judge of the Supreme Court American ( US Supreme Court )	59
63	▲		Alisher Usmanov	Russian oligarch	60
64	listed for the first time		Aliko Dangote	Founder and CEO of the Dangote Group	57
65	▲		Reid Hoffman	Silicon Valley investor, multiple company founder	47
66	▼		John Boehner	Chairman of the United States House of Representatives	64
67	▼		El Chapo	Head of the Mexican Sinaloa cartel	57
68	last 2011 (64)		Jill Abramson	Editor-in-Chief of the New York Times	59
69	▬		Joseph Blatter	FIFA President	78
70	listed for the first time		Yngve Slyngstad	CEO of the National Pension Fund of Norway (NBIM)	51
71	listed for the first time		Mo Ibrahim	Sudanese businessman	67
72	listed for the first time		Janet Yellen	US Federal Reserve presidential candidate	67

2012

The 2012 list names the 71 most powerful people, including six women (~ 8.5%), out of a world population of 7.1 billion. According to their proportion, the following groups of people are listed: politicians (including the ruling nobility), business people, bankers, religious leaders, media heads as well as two soldiers and one criminal.

rank	Change compared to previous year	State ality	person	Office or position	Age
1	▬		Barack Obama	US President	51
2	▲	( )	Angela Merkel	German Chancellor	58
3	▼		Wladimir Putin	Russian President	60
4th	▲		Bill Gates	Board of Directors of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ; Founder and Chairman of the Board of Microsoft	57
5	▲	/ ( )	Benedict XVI.	265. Pope of the Roman Catholic Church	86
6th	▲		Ben Bernanke	President of the US Federal Reserve	59
7th	▼		Abdullah ibn Abd al-Aziz	6. King , President of the Government of Saudi Arabia	88
8th	▲	( )	Mario Draghi	President of the European Central Bank (ECB)	65
9	▲		Xi Jinping	General Secretary of the Communist Party of China , Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission of China	60
10	▬	( )	David Cameron	British Prime Minister	46
11	▲		Carlos Slim Helu	Multi-billionaire, chairman of Telmex , honorary chairman of América Móvil	73
12	▼		Sonia Gandhi	President of the Indian National Congress	66
13	▬		Li Keqiang	Chinese Vice President	57
14th	listed for the first time	( )	François Hollande	French President and Co-Prince of Andorra	58
15th	▲		Warren Buffett	CEO of Berkshire Hathaway	82
16	▲		Michael Bloomberg	Multi-billionaire, Mayor of New York City	71
17th	▲		Mike Duke	CEO of Walmart	62
18th	▲		Dilma Rousseff	President of Brazil	65
19th	▬		Manmohan Singh	Prime Minister of India	80
20th	▲		Sergey Brin	Co-founder of Google , Board Member for Special Projects	39
20th	▲		Larry Page	Co-founder of Google	40
21st	▲		Ali Khamene'i	Grand Ayatollah , political and spiritual leader of Iran	73
22nd	▲		Rex Tillerson	CEO of ExxonMobil	61
23	▲		Benjamin Netanyahu	Prime Minister of Israel	63
24	▲		Jeffrey Immelt	CEO of General Electric	57
25th	▼		Mark Zuckerberg	CEO and Co-Founder of Facebook	29
26th	▲	/	Rupert Murdoch	CEO of News Corporation	82
27	▲		Jeff Bezos	CEO of Amazon	49
28	▲		Ashfaq Kayani	de facto commander in chief of the armed forces of Pakistan	61
29	listed for the first time	( )	Mario Monti	Prime Minister of Italy	70
30th	▲		Ban Ki-moon	UN Secretary General	69
31	▲	( )	Li Ka-shing	Chairman of Hutchison Whampoa and Chueng Kong Holdings	85
32	▼		Ali Al-Naimi	Oil Minister of Saudi Arabia	78
33	▲		Chalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan	President of the United Arab Emirates	65
34	▲		Jamie Dimon	CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co.	57
35	▲		Tim Cook	CEO of Apple	52
36	▲		Lloyd C. Blankfein	CEO of Goldman Sachs Group	58
37	▼		Mukesh Ambani	Multi-billionaire, chairman of Reliance Industries	56
38	▲	( )	Christine Lagarde	Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)	57
39	▼		Lou Jiwei	Chairman of China Investment Corporation	62
40	▼		Masaaki Shirakawa	Governor of the Central Bank of Japan	63
41	▲		Charles G. Koch	CEO of Koch Industries	77
41	▲		David H. Koch	Vice President of Koch Industries	73
42	▲		Laurence Douglas Fink	Co-Founder and CEO of BlackRock	60
43	last 2009 (28)		Akio Toyoda	CEO of Toyota Motor	57
44	listed for the first time		Kim Jong Un	North Korean President	30th
45	listed for the first time		Jim Yong Kim	World Bank President	53
46	listed for the first time		Steve Ballmer	CEO of Microsoft	57
47	▬		Lakshmi Mittal	Chairman of ArcelorMittal	63
48	last 2009 (67)		Hugo Chavez	President of Venezuela	58 (†)
49	last 2010 (51)		Sebastián Piñera	Chilean President	63
50	▬		Bill Clinton	Former US President , Chairman of the Clinton Global Initiative, spouse of US Secretary of State	66
51	▲		Bill Gross	Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of Pimco	69
52	listed for the first time		Zaheerul Islam	Head of the Pakistani secret service Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)	57
53	▲		Masayoshi Son	Founder and CEO of Softbank	55
54	listed for the first time		Enrique Peña Nieto	President of Mexico	46
55	listed for the first time		Terry Gou	CEO of Hon Hai Precision	62
56	▲	( )	Bernard Arnault	Chairman of Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH)	64
57	▼		Rostam Ghasemi	President of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)	49
58	listed for the first time	( )	Margaret Chan	Director of the World Health Organization (WHO)	65
59	last 2009 (49)		John Roberts	Presiding judge of the US Supreme Court	58
60	▲		Yoshihiko Noda	Prime Minister of Japan	56
61	▼		Dmitry Medvedev	Prime Minister of Russia	47
62	listed for the first time		Jiang Zemin	Former President and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party	86
63	▼		El Chapo	Head of the Mexican drug cartel Sinaloa	56
64	▼		Robin Li	Co-founder and CEO of Baidu	44
65	▲		John Boehner	Chairman of the United States House of Representatives	63
66	listed for the first time		Elon Musk	Founder and CEO of SpaceX , Co-Founder and CEO of Tesla Motors	42
67	listed for the first time		Alisher Usmanov	Founder of Metalloinvest	59
68	listed for the first time		Kathleen Sebelius	U.S. Secretary of Health	65
69	▼		Joseph Blatter	FIFA President	77
70	listed for the first time		Alexey Miller	Chairman of Gazprom	51
71	listed for the first time		Reid Hoffman	Silicon Valley investor, company founder	46

2011

The 2011 list names the 70 most powerful people, including five women (~ 7.1%) out of a world population of seven billion. According to their proportion, the following groups of people are listed: politicians (including the ruling nobility), business people, bankers, religious leaders, media heads and criminals.

rank	Change compared to previous year	State ality	person	Office or position
1	▲		Barack Obama	US President
2	▲		Wladimir Putin	Russian Prime Minister
3	▼		Hu Jintao	General Secretary of the Communist Party of China , President of the People's Republic of China
4th	▲	( )	Angela Merkel	German Chancellor
5	▲		Bill Gates	Board of Directors of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ; Founder and Chairman of Microsoft
6th	▼		Abdullah ibn Abd al-Aziz	6. King , President of the Government of Saudi Arabia
7th	▼	/ ( )	Benedict XVI.	265. Pope of the Roman Catholic Church
8th	▬		Ben Bernanke	President of the US Federal Reserve
9	▲		Mark Zuckerberg	CEO and Co-Founder of Facebook
10	▼	( )	David Cameron	British Prime Minister
11	▼		Sonia Gandhi	President of the Indian National Congress
12	▲	( )	Mario Draghi	President of the European Central Bank
13	▲	( )	Nicolas Sarkozy	French President and Co-Prince of Andorra
14th	▲		Wen Jiabao	Prime Minister of the People's Republic of China
15th	▼		Zhou Xiaochuan	Governor of the People's Bank of China (Central Bank of China)
16	▲		Hillary Clinton	US Secretary of State
17th	▲		Michael Bloomberg	Multi-billionaire, Mayor of New York City
18th	▲		Timothy Geithner	US Treasury Secretary
19th	▼		Manmohan Singh	Indian Prime Minister
20th	▲		Warren Buffett	CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
21st	▼	( )	Silvio Berlusconi	Italian Prime Minister
22nd	▼		Dilma Rousseff	President of Brazil
23	▼		Carlos Slim Helu	Chairman of Telmex
24	▲	/	Rupert Murdoch	CEO of News Corporation
25th	▼		Benjamin Netanyahu	Prime Minister of Israel
26th	▬		Ali Khamene'i	Grand Ayatollah , political and spiritual leader of Iran
27	▼		Mike Duke	CEO of Walmart
28	▲		Jeffrey Immelt	CEO of General Electric
29	listed for the first time		Zhou Yongkang	Chairman of the Political and Legislative Commission of the People's Republic of China
30th	▼		Sergey Brin	Co-founder of Google
30th	▼		Larry Page	Co-founder of Google
31	listed for the first time		Ali Al-Naimi	Oil Minister of Saudi Arabia
32	listed for the first time		Rostam Ghasemi	President of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
33	▼		Lou Jiwei	Chairman of China Investment Corporation
34	▼		Ashfaq Parvez Kayani	de facto commander in chief of the armed forces of Pakistan
35	▼		Mukesh Ambani	Chairman of Reliance Industries
36	▲		Masaaki Shirakawa	Governor of the Central Bank of Japan
37	▼		Kim Jong-il	President of North Korea
38	▲		Ban Ki-moon	UN Secretary General
39	listed for the first time	( )	Christine Lagarde	Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
40	▲		Jeff Bezos	CEO of Amazon
41	▲		Jamie Dimon	CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co.
42	▲		Robin Li	CEO of Baidu
43	▼		Lloyd C. Blankfein	CEO of Goldman Sachs
44	▼	( )	Li Ka-shing	Chairman of Hutchison Whampoa and Chueng Kong (Holdings)
45	▲		Charles G. Koch	CEO of Koch Industries
45	▲		David H. Koch	Vice President of Koch Industries
46	▲		Rex Tillerson	CEO of ExxonMobil
47	▼		Lakshmi Mittal	Chairman of ArcelorMittal
48	listed for the first time		Recep Erdoğan	Prime Minister of Turkey
49	▼		Robert Zoellick	World Bank President
50	▼		Bill Clinton	former US President , spouse of US Secretary of State
51	▼	( )	Tendzin Gyatsho (Dalai Lama)	spiritual leader, head of the Tibetan government in exile
52	▼		Laurence Douglas Fink	CEO of BlackRock
53	▲		Chalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan	President of the United Arab Emirates
54	▲		Bill Gross	Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of Pimco
55	▲		El Chapo	Head of the Mexican drug cartel Sinaloa
56	listed for the first time		Ahmed Shuja Pasha	Director of the Pakistani Secret Service Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)
57	▲		Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar	Head of the Indian drug and contract killer syndicate D-Company
58	listed for the first time		Tim Cook	CEO of Apple
59	▼		Dmitry Medvedev	President of Russia
60	▼		Masayoshi Son	Founder and CEO of Softbank
61	listed for the first time		Azim Premji	Chairman of Wipro
62	listed for the first time		Yoshihiko Noda	Prime Minister of Japan
63	▲		Joseph Blatter	FIFA President
64	listed for the first time		Jill Abramson	Editor-in-Chief of the New York Times
65	▼	( )	Bernard Arnault	Chairman of Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH)
66	▼		Sebastián Piñera	Chilean President
67	listed for the first time		John Boehner	Chairman of the United States House of Representatives
68.	▼	( )	Jacques Rogge	President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)
69.	listed for the first time		Xi Jinping	Chinese Vice President, Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission
70.	listed for the first time		Alisher Usmanov	Russian oligarch

2010

The 2010 list lists 68 people, including five women (~ 7.4%) out of a world population of 6.8 billion. For the first time, with the Chinese president, no US president holds the "title" of the most powerful person. According to their proportion, the following groups of people are listed: politicians (including the ruling nobility), business people, bankers, religious leaders, media heads, two criminals and one terrorist.

rank	Change compared to previous year	State ality	person	Office or position
1	▲		Hu Jintao	General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party ; President of the People's Republic of China
2	▼		Barack Obama	US President
3	▲		Abdullah ibn Abd al-Aziz	6. King , President of the Government of Saudi Arabia
4th	▼		Wladimir Putin	Russian Prime Minister
5	▲	/ ( )	Benedict XVI.	265. Pope of the Roman Catholic Church
6th	▲	( )	Angela Merkel	German Chancellor
7th	▲	( )	David Cameron	British Prime Minister
8th	▼		Ben Bernanke	President of the US Federal Reserve
9	▲		Sonia Gandhi	President of the Indian National Congress
10	▬		Bill Gates	Founder and chairman of Microsoft ; Board of Directors of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
11	▲		Zhou Xiaochuan	Governor of the Central Bank of China (People's Bank of China)
12	▲		Dmitry Medvedev	Russian President
13	▼		Thomas B. Fischer	CEO of News Corporation
14th	▼	( )	Silvio Berlusconi	Italian Prime Minister
15th	▲	( )	Jean-Claude Trichet	President of the European Central Bank
16	listed for the first time		Dilma Rousseff	President of Brazil
17th	▲		Steve Jobs	CEO of Apple
18th	▲		Manmohan Singh	Indian Prime Minister
19th	▲	( )	Nicolas Sarkozy	French President and Co-Prince of Andorra
20th	▼		Hillary Clinton	US Secretary of State
21st	▼		Carlos Slim Helu	CEO of Telmex
22nd	▼		Larry Page	Co-founder of Google
22nd	▼		Sergey Brin	Co-founder of Google
23	▼		Michael Bloomberg	Multi-billionaire, Mayor of New York City
24	▲		Benjamin Netanyahu	Prime Minister of Israel
25th	▼		Mike Duke	Wal-Mart CEO
26th	▲		Ali Khamene'i	Grand Ayatollah , political and spiritual leader of Iran
27	listed for the first time		Naoto Kan	Prime Minister of Japan
28	▼		Timothy Geithner	US Treasury Secretary
29	listed for the first time		Ashfaq Parvez Kayani	de facto commander in chief of the armed forces of Pakistan
30th	▲		Lou Jiwei	Chairman of the China Investment Corporation
31	▼		Kim Jong-il	President of North Korea
32	▼		Li Changchun	Propaganda chief of the Chinese Communist Party
33	▼		Warren Buffett	CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
34	▲		Mukesh Ambani	Chairman of Reliance Industries
35	▼		Jeffrey Immelt	CEO of General Electric
36	▼	( )	Li Ka-shing	Chairman of Hutchison Whampoa and Chueng Kong Holdings
37	▲	( )	Dominique Strauss-Kahn	Head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
38	▼		Masaaki Shirakawa	Governor of Japan's Central Bank, the Bank of Japan
39	▬	( )	Tendzin Gyatsho (Dalai Lama)	spiritual leader, head of the Tibetan government in exile
40	listed for the first time		Mark Zuckerberg	CEO and Co-Founder of Facebook
41	listed for the first time		Ban Ki-moon	Secretary General of the United Nations
42	▼		Lloyd C. Blankfein	CEO of Goldman Sachs
43	▲	( )	Bernard Arnault	Chairman of Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH)
44	▼		Lakshmi Mittal	Chairman of the ArcelorMittal Board of Directors
45	▲		Robert Zoellick	World Bank President
46	listed for the first time		Robin Li	CEO of Baidu
47	▼		Jamie Dimon	CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co.
48	▼		Laurence Douglas Fink	CEO of BlackRock
49	▼		Rex Tillerson	CEO of ExxonMobil
50	listed for the first time		Bill Keller	Chairman of the New York Times
51	listed for the first time		Sebastián Piñera	President of Chile
52	▼		Igor Sechin	Deputy Prime Minister of Russia
53	listed for the first time		Abdalla Salem El-Badri	President of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
54	listed for the first time		Charles G. Koch	CEO of Koch Industries
54	listed for the first time		David H. Koch	Vice President of Koch Industries
55	listed for the first time		Masayoshi Son	CEO of Softbank
56	listed for the first time		Chalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan	President of the United Arab Emirates
57	▼		Osama bin Laden	Founder and head of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network
58	listed for the first time		Eike Batista	CEO of the EBX Group
59	▼		Bill Gross	Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of Pimco
60	▼		El Chapo	Head of the Mexican drug cartel Sinaloa
61	▼		Ratan Tata	Chairman of the Tata Group
62	listed for the first time		Wang Yong	Chairman of SASAC (Chinese State Property Administration)
63	▬		Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar	Head of the Indian drug and contract killer syndicate D-Company
64	▼		Oprah Winfrey	Owner of HARPO Productions ( The Oprah Winfrey Show and others)
65	▼		Joseph Blatter	FIFA President
66	listed for the first time		Jeff Bezos	CEO of Amazon
67	▼	( )	Jacques Rogge	President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)
68	listed for the first time		Julian Assange	WikiLeaks spokesman

2009

The list was first drawn up in 2009 and names the 67 most powerful people this year, including three women (~ 4.5%) out of a world population of 6.7 billion. The following groups of people are listed according to their proportions: politicians (including the ruling nobility), business people, religious leaders, media heads as well as a judge, a criminal and a terrorist. For the first time and so far for the last time, a total of three Germans are listed.

rank	State ality	person	Office or position
1		Barack Obama	US President
2		Hu Jintao	General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party ; President of the People's Republic of China
3		Wladimir Putin	Russian Prime Minister
4th		Ben Bernanke	President of the US Federal Reserve
5		Sergey Brin	Founder of Google
5		Larry Page	Founder of Google
6th		Carlos Slim	CEO of Telmex
7th		Thomas B. Fischer	CEO of News Corporation
8th		Mike Duke	CEO of Walmart
9		Abdullah ibn Abd al-Aziz	6. King , President of the Government of Saudi Arabia
10		Bill Gates	Board of Directors of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ; Founder, Chairman of Microsoft
11	/ ( )	Benedict XVI.	265. Pope of the Roman Catholic Church
12	( )	Silvio Berlusconi	Italian Prime Minister
13		Jeffrey R. Immelt	CEO of General Electric
14th		Warren Buffett	CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
15th	( )	Angela Merkel	German Chancellor
16		Laurence Douglas Fink	CEO of BlackRock
17th		Hillary Clinton	US Secretary of State
18th		Lloyd C. Blankfein	CEO of Goldman Sachs
19th		Li Changchun	Member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China
20th		Michael Bloomberg	Multi-billionaire, Mayor of New York City
21st		Timothy Geithner	US Treasury Secretary
22nd		Rex Tillerson	CEO of ExxonMobil
23	( )	Li Ka-shing	Chairman of Hutchison Whampoa and Chueng Kong Holdings
24		Kim Jong-il	President of North Korea
25th	( )	Jean-Claude Trichet	President of the European Central Bank (ECB)
26th		Masaaki Shirakawa	Governor of Japan's Central Bank, the Bank of Japan
27		Ahmed bin Sayed al-Nahyan	Sheikh , Director of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority
28		Akio Toyoda	CEO of Toyota Motor
29	( )	Gordon Brown	British Prime Minister
30th		Jamie Dimon	CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co.
31		Bill Clinton	Former US President , Chairman of the Clinton Global Initiative, spouse of US Secretary of State
32		Bill Gross	Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of Pimco
33		Luiz Inacio da Silva	President of Brazil
34		Lou Jiwei	Chairman of China Investment Corporation
35		Yukio Hatoyama	Prime Minister of Japan
36		Manmohan Singh	Indian Prime Minister
37		Osama bin Laden	Founder and head of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network
38		Yousaf Raza Gilani	Pakistani Prime Minister
39	( )	Tendzin Gyatsho (Dalai Lama)	spiritual leader, head of the Tibetan government in exile
40		Ali Khamene'i	Grand Ayatollah , political and spiritual leader of Iran
41		El Chapo	Head of the Mexican drug cartel Sinaloa
42		Igor Sechin	Deputy Prime Minister of Russia
43		Dmitry Medvedev	Russian President
44		Mukesh Ambani	Chairman of Reliance Industries
45		Oprah Winfrey	Owner of HARPO Productions ( The Oprah Winfrey Show and others )
46		Benjamin Netanyahu	Prime Minister of Israel
47	( )	Dominique Strauss-Kahn	Head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
48		Zhou Xiaochuan	Governor of the Central Bank of China (People's Bank of China)
49		John Roberts	Presiding judge of the US Supreme Court
50		Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar	Head of the Indian drug and contract killer syndicate D-Company
51		William Keller	Editor-in-Chief of the New York Times
52	( )	Bernard Arnault	Chairman of Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH)
53		Joseph Blatter	FIFA President
54	( )	Wadah Khanfar	General Manager of Al Jazeera
55		Lakshmi Mittal	Chairman of the ArcelorMittal Board of Directors
56	( )	Nicolas Sarkozy	French President and Co-Prince of Andorra
57		Steve Jobs	CEO of Apple
58		Fujio Mitarai	Canon Chairman
59		Ratan Tata	Chairman of the Tata Group
60	( )	Jacques Rogge	President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)
61		Li Rongrong	Chairman of the Control Board for State-Owned Enterprises
62		Blairo Maggi	Governor of the Brazilian state Mato Grasso
63		Robert Zoellick	World Bank President
64	( )	Antonio Guterres	UN refugee commissioner
65	( )	Mark John Thompson	Director General of the BBC
66	( )	Klaus Schwab	Founder, permanent president of the World Economic Forum
67		Hugo Chavez	President of Venezuela

Overview by country

Rank (2018)	country	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2016	2018
1.	United States	21st	24	25th	27	31	27	34	31
(2.)	European Union	12	9	9	8th	7th	7th	6th	8th
(2.)	People's Republic of China , including Hong Kong , Tibet	7th	8th	9	7th	6th	8th	8th	8th
2.	People's Republic of China	5	6th	7th	5	4th	6th	7th	7th
3.	Japan	4th	3	3	4th	4th	4th	4th	4th
4th	France	4th	4th	3	3	3	3	2	3
5.	India	5	6th	6th	3	3	2	2	2
5.	Mexico	2	2	2	3	3	2	2	2
5.	South Korea	0	1	1	1	3	4th	1	2
6th	Russia	4th	3	4th	5	3	5	2	1
6th	Germany	3	2	2	2	2	2	1	1
6th	Saudi Arabia	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1
6th	Hong Kong	1	1	1	2	2	2	1	1
6th	Italy	1	1	2	2	1	1	1	1
6th	Iran	1	1	2	2	1	1	1	1
6th	Brazil	2	2	1	1	1	1	0	1
6th	United Kingdom	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
(6.)	Israel including occupation areas	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
6th	Israel	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
6th	Pakistan	1	1	2	2	0	0	0	1
6th	Vatican city	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
6th	North Korea	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
6th	Switzerland	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	1
6th	United Arab Emirates	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
6th	Nigeria	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1
6th	Argentina	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1
6th	Portugal	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
6th	Indonesia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
6th	Philippines	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
6th	Turkey	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	1
6th	Singapore	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
6th	Luxembourg	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
6th	Syria	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
6th	Egypt	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	1
6th	Iraq	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
	Australia	1	2	1	1	1	1	0	0
	Chile	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0
	Belgium	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
	Taiwan	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0
	Tibet	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
	Yemen	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0
	Venezuela	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
	Norway	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
	Libya	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Palestine	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Sudan	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0

Web links

• Forbes Gallery , and List , Forbes Magazine homepage, last accessed July 15, 2013
• Picture gallery , Wirtschaftswoche , last accessed on July 15, 2013

Individual evidence

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