China’s president, Xi Jinping has been named this year’s most powerful person in the world by Forbes. In March 2018, China’s congress amended its constitution, eliminating term limits and broadening Xi’s influence.
Russian President Vladimir Putin who came in second place has been knocked off the top spot, a title that he held for four consecutive years. A little over one year into his term, President Donald Trump falls to the Number 3 spot.
Four factors were taken into account to select each of the World’s Most Powerful People: how many people over whom they have power; the financial resources they control; if they have influence in more than one sphere; and how actively they wield their power to change the world.
It’s no surprise that Africa’s richest man and Nigerian business mogul, Alhaji Aliko Dangote is the only Nigerian to make the 75 Most Powerful People in 2018.
He’s pegged on 66th position coming a spot ahead of Vice President of the United States of America, Mike Pence who’s pegged on number 67 on the list.
See the full list below, compromising of the names, businesses/countries and age:
| #1 | Xi Jinping | China | 64 | |
| #2 | Vladimir Putin | Russia | 65 | |
| #3 | Donald Trump | United States | 71 | |
| #4 | Angela Merkel | Germany | 63 | |
| #5 | Jeff Bezos | Amazon.com | 54 | |
| #6 | Pope Francis | Roman Catholic Church | 81 | |
| #7 | Bill Gates | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | 62 | |
| #8 | Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud | Saudi Arabia | 32 | |
| #9 | Narendra Modi | India | 67 | |
| #10 | Larry Page | 45 | ||
| #11 | Jerome H. Powell | United States | 65 | |
| #12 | Emmanuel Macron | France | 40 | |
| #13 | Mark Zuckerberg | 33 | ||
| #14 | Theresa May | United Kingdom | 61 | |
| #15 | Li Keqiang | China | 62 | |
| #16 | Warren Buffett | Berkshire Hathaway | 87 | |
| #17 | Ali Hoseini-Khamenei | Iran | 78 | |
| #18 | Mario Draghi | European Central Bank | 70 | |
| #19 | Jamie Dimon | JPMorgan Chase | 62 | |
| #20 | Carlos Slim Helu | America Movil SAB de CV (ADR) | 78 | |
| #21 | Jack Ma | Alibaba Group | 53 | |
| #22 | Christine Lagarde | International Monetary Fund | 62 | |
| #23 | Doug McMillon | Wal-Mart Stores | 51 | |
| #24 | Tim Cook | Apple | 57 | |
| #25 | Elon Musk | Tesla | 46 | |
| #26 | Benjamin Netanyahu | Israel | 68 | |
| #27 | Ma Huateng | Tencent Holdings | 46 | |
| #28 | Larry Fink | BlackRock | 65 | |
| #29 | Akio Toyoda | Toyota Motor | 62 | |
| #30 | John L. Flannery | General Electric | 56 | |
| #31 | Antonio Guterres | United Nations | 69 | |
| #32 | Mukesh Ambani | Reliance Industries Ltd. | 61 | |
| #33 | Jean-Claude Juncker | European Union | 63 | |
| #34 | Darren Woods | ExxonMobil | 53 | |
| #35 | Sergey Brin | Alphabet | 44 | |
| #36 | Kim Jong-un | North Korea | 34 | |
| #37 | Charles Koch | Koch Industries | 82 | |
| #38 | Shinzo Abe | Japan | 63 | |
| #39 | Rupert Murdoch | News Corp | 87 | |
| #40 | Satya Nadella | Microsoft | 50 | |
| #41 | Jim Yong Kim | World Bank | 58 | |
| #42 | Stephen Schwarzman | Blackstone Group | 71 | |
| #43 | Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan | United Arab Emirates | 70 | |
| #44 | Haruhiko Kuroda | Japan | 73 | |
| #45 | Abdel Fattah el-Sisi | Egypt | 63 | |
| #46 | Li Ka-shing | CK Hutchison Holdings | 89 | |
| #47 | Lloyd Blankfein | Goldman Sachs Group | 63 | |
| #48 | Recep Tayyip Erdogan | Turkey | 64 | |
| #49 | Bob Iger | Walt Disney | 67 | |
| #50 | Michel Temer | Brazil | 77 | |
| #51 | Michael Bloomberg | Bloomberg | 76 | |
| #52 | Wang Jianlin | Dalian Wanda Group | 63 | |
| #53 | Mary Barra | General Motors | 56 | |
| #54 | Moon Jae-in | South Korea | 65 | |
| #55 | Masayoshi Son | Softbank Corp. | 60 | |
| #56 | Bernard Arnault | LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton | 69 | |
| #57 | Justin Trudeau | Canada | 46 | |
| #58 | Robin Li | Baidu | 49 | |
| #59 | Michael Dell | Dell | 53 | |
| #60 | Hui Ka Yan | Evergrande Real Estate Group | 59 | |
| #61 | Lee Hsien Loong | Singapore | 66 | |
| #62 | Bashar al-Assad | Syria | 52 | |
| #63 | John Roberts | United States | 63 | |
| #64 | Enrique Pena Nieto | Mexico | 51 | |
| #65 | Ken Griffin | Citadel LLC | 49 | |
| #66 | Aliko Dangote | Dangote Group | 61 | |
| #67 | Mike Pence | United States | 58 | |
| #68 | Qamar Javed Bajwa | Pakistan | 57 | |
| #69 | Rodrigo Duterte | Philippines | 73 | |
| #70 | Abigail Johnson | Fidelity Investments | 56 | |
| #71 | Reed Hastings | Netflix | 57 | |
| #72 | Robert Mueller | United States | 73 | |
| #73 | Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi | Islamic State | 46 | |
| #74 | Joko Widodo | Indonesia | 56 | |
| #75 | Gianni Infantino | FIFA |
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