Forbes list of the World's Most Powerful People
Between 2009 and 2018 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.
Historical top ten rankings
''Note: No list was released for 2017.''Listed seven or more times
Listed every time
- Mukesh Ambani
- Lloyd Blankfein
- Michael Bloomberg
- Sergey Brin
- Warren Buffett
- Jamie Dimon
- Larry Fink
- Bill Gates
- Li Ka-shing
- Ali Khamenei
- Angela Merkel
- Rupert Murdoch
- Benjamin Netanyahu
- Larry Page
- Vladimir Putin
- Carlos Slim
Listed eight times
- Bernard Arnault
- Jeff Bezos
- Jeff Immelt
- Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
- Charles Koch
- Robin Li
- Barack Obama
- Masayoshi Son
- Rex Tillerson
- Mark Zuckerberg