President Obama tops Forbes' list of World's Most Powerful

President Barack Obama tops Forbes’ Most Powerful People in the world list this year, beating out the likes of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Bill Gates and even Mark Zuckerberg.

The ranking takes into account four factors which are;

• How many people a person has power over
• The financial resources controlled by each candidate, whether that is revenues (for a company), GDP (for a country) or net worth (for a billionaire)
• Is a candidate influential in more than one arena, or sphere
• How actively the candidates wield their power

There are seven billion people on the planet. These are the 70 that matter....

1     Barack Obama
2     Vladimir Putin
3     Hu Jintao
4     Angela Merkel
5     Bill Gates
6     Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud
7     Pope Benedict XVI
8     Ben Bernanke
9     Mark Zuckerberg
10   David Cameron


11     Sonia Gandhi
12     Mario Draghi
13     Nicolas Sarkozy
14     Wen Jiabao
15     Zhou Xiaochuan
16     Hillary Clinton
17     Michael Bloomberg
18     Timothy Geithner
19     Manmohan Singh
20     Warren Buffett
21     Silvio Berlusconi & family
22     Dilma Rousseff
23     Carlos Slim Helu & family
24     Rupert Murdoch
25     Benjamin Netanyahu
26     Ali Hoseini-Khamenei
27     Michael Duke
28     Jeffrey Immelt
29     Zhou Yongkang
30     Sergey Brin
30     Larry Page
31     Ali Al-Naimi
32     Rostam Ghasemi
33     Lou Jiwei
34     Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
35     Mukesh Ambani
36     Masaaki Shirakawa
37     Kim Jong-il
38     Ban Ki-moon
39     Christine Lagarde
40     Jeff Bezos
41     Jamie Dimon
42     Robin Li
43     Lloyd Blankfein
44     Li Ka-shing
45     Charles Koch
45     David Koch
46     Rex Tillerson
47     Lakshmi Mittal
48     Recep Erdogan
49     Robert Zoellick
50     Bill Clinton
51     Dalai Lama
52     Larry Fink
53     Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan
54     Bill Gross
55     Joaquin Guzman Loera (Drug Kingpin)
56     Ahmed Shuja Pasha
57     Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar
58     Tim Cook
59     Dmitry Medvedev
60     Masayoshi Son
61     Azim Premji
62     Yoshihiko Noda
63     Joseph Blatter
64     Jill Abramson
65     Bernard Arnault
66     Sebastian Pinera
67     John Boehner
68     Jacques Rogge
69     Xi Jinping
70     Alisher Usmanov

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Source: Forbes