Top 10 Most Powerful People in the World
Here are the world’s ten most powerful people based on the data disclosed by Forbes.

1. Xi Jinping, China
Xi Jinping tops the list of the most powerful people due to his deep-rooted political dominion as China’s seventh president, broadening his authority through his third-term presidency. Widely associated with and credited with the slogan Chinese Dream, his political stance quickly attracted media attention shortly after he was first elected in 2013 due to the advancement tendency of Chinese society.

2. Vladimir Putin, Russia
As of 2024, Vladimir Putin has been serving as Russia’s president for 25 years, demonstrating his colossal supremacy. Forbes argues that his unwavering international dominance is the inevitable effect of Europe’s dependence on Russian oil and gas. Today, Putin continues to scale up Russia’s expansion across political and economic ventures.

3. Donald Trump: The United States
Making his Forbes 400 debut in 1982 alongside his after with a combined net worth of $200 million, Donald Trump is both influential and wealthy. Aside from his political career, Trump is a real estate tycoon whose assets like hotels, golf courses, casinos, residential properties, and resorts are scattered across New York City and around the world.

4. Angela Merker, Germany
Angela Merker’s earliest preeminence was marked by her position as the first female Chancellor of Germany, in which she has held the exact seat for the fourth term now. Merker’s leadership is greatly admired after saving Germany from a financial crisis and granting access for more than a million Syrian refugees into Germany.

5. Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com
Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon, the world’s most influential e-commerce company in modern days, whose net worth exceeded $207 billion in October 2024. Bezos’s influence has shaped the global market across a number of business ventures that include The Washington Post and Blue Origin.

6. Pope Francis, Roman Catholic Church
As one of the most powerful figures in the world, Pope Francis surprisingly leads a life much like any ordinary person. His mission to transform the abiding conservative image of the Catholic Church is manifested in several courageous decisions, like granting priests the authority to forgive women who undergo abortions and promoting better treatment of refugees.

7. Bill Gates, Microsoft
Bill Gates co-founded one of the largest software companies, Microsoft, with his childhood friend Paul in 1975. He has expanded his wealth sources into a number of holdings that earned about $104 billion in net worth, according to Forbes real-time billionaire counter. Also known as a generous figure, Bill Gates has donated a monumental amount of $59 billion to the Gates Foundation.

8. Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, Saudi Arabia
Throughout his time as the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud has made various intrepid maneuvers. One of which was the “anti-corruption campaign” that resulted in the arrest of many prominent Saudis in November 2017. His family, renowned to be business industry rulers, has had monarchical history dating way back a century ago.

9. Narendra Modi, India
With a population of 1.3 billion, India holds a significant position in the world’s overall market trade. Among the country’s influential key figures is Narendra Modi, who made a controversial announcement in regards to the elimination of India’s two largest banknotes in a bid as an effort to tackle money laundering and longstanding corruption occurring in the nation.

10. Larry Page, Alphabet
Larry Page was a co-founder of Google in 1998 who invented Google's rank algorithm along with Sergey Brin. His fortune stretches across a whopping amount of $144 billion in net worth from being Alphabet’s co-founder and board member.

While some of the most powerful people in the world are respective leaders, others show their massive dominance in the global markets.
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