Michelle and Barack Obama remain two of the most admired figures
In 2021, Barack Obama maintains his place as the most admired man in the world after ousting Bill Gates last year.
Michelle Obama also maintains her position as the most admired woman in the world for the third year in a row.
The top three positions remain unchanged for men and women. Bill Gates comes in second place among men, followed by Chinese Prime Minister Xi Jinping. Actress Angelina Jolie remains the second most admired woman in the world, ahead of Queen Elizabeth II.
Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai and Indian actress Priyanka Chopra rose in the rankings this year, rising five places to reach ninth place in a row.y And the tenthy Rank.
Among men, it is Argentine footballer Lionel Messi who makes the biggest progress since 2020, moving from 11y At 7y Rank – His highest rank to date. Despite this progress, Messi remains behind his Portuguese rival, Cristiano Ronaldo, who occupies fourth placey Place (also Ronaldo's best performance to date).
Artists are particularly represented in the female rankings, with ten of the most admired women being actresses, singers or TV presenters (although some, such as Emma Watson and Angelina Jolie, are also known for their humanitarian work). Among men, the most admired figures come more from politics, business and sports.
New members of the top 20 list this year include US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, Thai rapper Lisa (from the band Blackpink), and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
This year's ranking also sees investors Warren Buffett, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, Indian actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Chinese actresses Liu Yifei and Yang Mi return to the top 20 list.
Scores are calculated from answers to two questions – whether the respondent likes a character, and then whether it is the character he or she likes most. The results are then aggregated and weighted according to the population size of each country (full methodology available at the end of the article).
France: What has changed since 2020?
Barack Obama (18.56%) and Jean-Jacques Goldman (10.53%) maintain the first two places in the men's classification. Nicolas Hulot Goes from 6y At 3 o'clocky Center (5.83%). In parallel, Michelle Obama (13.44%) still occupies 1time Place in the French classification. there Queen Elizabeth II (6.52%) and Angela Merkel (5.75%) top the podium for most admired women.
methodology :
In the spring of 2021, YouGov collected spontaneous nominations from panelists from 38 countries and regions: “Which living personalities (men or women) do you most admire?”
These nominations were then compiled to produce a list of the 20 men and 20 women who received the highest number of automatic votes, and who were nominated in at least 4 different countries. Between 5 and 10 local figures who received the largest number of votes for each country were also retained.
Between August and November, we re-surveyed panelists in each of the 38 countries and territories and asked two questions: “Which of the following people do you like?”, a question for which respondents could choose several personalities, and then “Among the personalities you like, who do you like?” more?” » with only one possible answer. These two percentages were combined to obtain an overall liking percentage. This percentage is shown to the right of each name in the graph above.
By asking these two questions, we can distinguish between the overall extent of support for a character and its intensity.
Overall, we surveyed countries representing more than two-thirds of the world's population. However, some parts of the world were better represented than others, so we evaluated the influence of some countries on the overall score, and reduced the influence of others so that the overall scores accurately reflected the world's levels of liking.
All terrain was implemented online. In many countries, Internet penetration is relatively low, meaning that the sample is only representative of the population with Internet access in those countries. The following is the list of countries concerned: Colombia, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, South Africa.
