World’s Most Powerful People

According to Forbes’ list of the world’s most powerful people, China’s President is the most powerful person in the world and only one person from the tech world made the top ten. Bill Gates came in at number ten, Steve Jobs was next at number seventeen, the Google boys jointly held the number twenty two spot and Mark Zuckerberg is number forty on the list.

The people on this list were chosen ­because, in various ways, they bend the world to their will. They are heads of state, major religious figures, entrepreneurs and outlaws. Comparing the relative power of such a diverse group is slippery business. To do it, we defined power in four dimensions. First, we asked if a person has influence over a lot of people? For heads-of-state we looked at population; for religious figures we measured the size of their flocks; for CEOs we counted their employees; and for media figures we considered the size of their audience.

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