Meet the World’s most powerful person as Forbes unveil their 2018 list + Check out the only Nigerian on the list

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 to 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 to 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 the names, businesses/countries, and age:
 
China     #1     Xi Jinping     China     64
China     #2     Vladimir Putin     Russia     65
China     #3     Donald Trump     United States     71
China     #4     Angela Merkel     Germany     63
China     #5     Jeff Bezos     Amazon.com     54
China     #6     Pope Francis     Roman Catholic Church     81
China     #7     Bill Gates     Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation     62
China     #8     Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud     Saudi Arabia     32
China     #9     Narendra Modi     India     67
China     #10     Larry Page     Google     45
China     #11     Jerome H. Powell     United States     65
China     #12     Emmanuel Macron     France     40
China     #13     Mark Zuckerberg     Facebook     33
China     #14     Theresa May     United Kingdom     61
China     #15     Li Keqiang     China     62
China     #16     Warren Buffett     Berkshire Hathaway     87
China     #17     Ali Hoseini-Khamenei     Iran     78
China     #18     Mario Draghi     European Central Bank     70
China     #19     Jamie Dimon     JPMorgan Chase     62
China     #20     Carlos Slim Helu     America Movil SAB de CV (ADR)     78
China     #21     Jack Ma     Alibaba Group     53
China     #22     Christine Lagarde     International Monetary Fund     62
China     #23     Doug McMillon     Wal-Mart Stores     51
China     #24     Tim Cook     Apple     57
China     #25     Elon Musk     Tesla     46
China     #26     Benjamin Netanyahu     Israel     68
China     #27     Ma Huateng     Tencent Holdings     46
China     #28     Larry Fink     BlackRock     65
China     #29     Akio Toyoda     Toyota Motor     62
China     #30     John L. Flannery     General Electric     56
China     #31     Antonio Guterres     United Nations     69
China     #32     Mukesh Ambani     Reliance Industries Ltd.     61
China     #33     Jean-Claude Juncker     European Union     63
China     #34     Darren Woods     ExxonMobil     53
China     #35     Sergey Brin     Alphabet     44
China     #36     Kim Jong-un     North Korea     34
China     #37     Charles Koch     Koch Industries     82
China     #38     Shinzo Abe     Japan     63
China     #39     Rupert Murdoch     News Corp     87
China     #40     Satya Nadella     Microsoft     50
China     #41     Jim Yong Kim     World Bank     58
China     #42     Stephen Schwarzman     Blackstone Group     71
China     #43     Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan     United Arab Emirates     70
China     #44     Haruhiko Kuroda     Japan     73
China     #45     Abdel Fattah el-Sisi     Egypt     63
China     #46     Li Ka-Shing     CK Hutchison Holdings     89
China     #47     Lloyd Blankfein     Goldman Sachs Group     63
China     #48     Recep Tayyip Erdogan     Turkey     64
China     #49     Bob Iger     Walt Disney     67
China     #50     Michel Temer     Brazil     77
China     #51     Michael Bloomberg     Bloomberg     76
China     #52     Wang Jianlin     Dalian Wanda Group     63
China     #53     Mary Barra     General Motors     56
China     #54     Moon Jae-in     South Korea     65
China     #55     Masayoshi Son     Softbank Corp.     60
China     #56     Bernard Arnault     LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton     69
China     #57     Justin Trudeau     Canada     46
China     #58     Robin Li     Baidu     49
China     #59     Michael Dell     Dell     53
China     #60     Hui Ka Yan     Evergrande Real Estate Group     59
China     #61     Lee Hsien Loong     Singapore     66
China     #62     Bashar al-Assad     Syria     52
China     #63     John Roberts     United States     63
China     #64     Enrique Pena Nieto     Mexico     51
China     #65     Ken Griffin     Citadel LLC     49
China     #66     Aliko Dangote     Dangote Group     61
China     #67     Mike Pence     United States     58
China     #68     Qamar Javed Bajwa     Pakistan     57
China     #69     Rodrigo Duterte     Philippines     73
China     #70     Abigail Johnson     Fidelity Investments     56
China     #71     Reed Hastings     Netflix     57
China     #72     Robert Mueller     United States     73
China     #73     Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi     Islamic State     46
China     #74     Joko Widodo     Indonesia     56
China     #75     Gianni Infantino     FIFA