The "Score" is based on the leaders' ranking on those lists- 10 points for a 1st place finish on a list and so on, then the total score divided by 9. "on List" is the number of times a leader made the top ten list. "High" is the leader's highest rank on any one list and "low" is the lowest rank. Leaders who didn't make the list at least once will have a dash by Low.
| Rank | Leader | Country | Score | On List | High | Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Xi Jiangping | China | 10 | 9 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Vladimir Putin | Russia | 8.4 | 9 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | Kim Jong-un | North Korea | 7.7 | 9 | 2 | 7 |
| 4 | Jacinda Ardern | New Zealand | 6.3 | 9 | 3 | 8 |
| 5 | Abiy Ahmed | Ethiopia | 5 | 9 | 5 | 8 |
| 6 | Recep Erdogan | Turkey | 2.6 | 3 | 4 | - |
| 7 | Volodymyr Zelensky | Ukraine | 1.9 | 4 | 5 | - |
| 8 | Ali Khamenei | Iran | 1.6 | 3 | 4 | - |
| 9 | Emmanuel Macron | France | 1.1 | 2 | 4 | - |
| 10 | Boris Johnson | United Kingdom | 0.9 | 1 | 3 | - |
| 11 | Narendra Modi | India | 0.8 | 2 | 6 | - |
| 12 | Lars Løkke Rasmussen | Denmark | 0.8 | 2 | 7 | - |
| 13 | Shinzo Abe | Japan | 0.7 | 3 | 8 | - |
| 14 | Nana Akufo-Addo | Ghana | 0.7 | 2 | 7 | - |
| 15 | Leo Varadkar | Ireland | 0.7 | 1 | 5 | - |
| 16 | Benjamin Netanyahu | Israel | 0.7 | 1 | 5 | - |
| 17 | Justin Trudeau | Canada | 0.6 | 2 | 7 | - |
| 18 | Mokgweetsi Masisi | Botswana | 0.6 | 2 | 8 | - |
| 19 | Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador | Mexico | 0.6 | 2 | 8 | - |
| 20 | Ivan Duque Marquez | Colombia | 0.6 | 1 | 6 | - |
| 21 | Sauli Niinisto | Finland | 0.4 | 1 | 7 | - |
| 22 | Abdel al-Burhan | Sudan | 0.4 | 1 | 7 | - |
| 23 | Carlos Alvarado | Costa Rica | 0.4 | 1 | 7 | - |
| 24 | Donald Trump | United States | 0.3 | 3 | 10 | - |
| 25 | Lenin Moreno | Ecuador | 0.3 | 1 | 8 | - |
| 26 | Nayib Bukele | El Salvador | 0.3 | 1 | 8 | - |
| 27 | King Mohammad VI | Morocco | 0.2 | 1 | 9 | - |
| 28 | Theresa May | United Kingdom | 0.2 | 1 | 9 | - |
| 29 | Peter Pelligrini | Slovakia | 0.1 | 1 | 10 | - |
| 30 | Sultan Qaboos | Oman | 0.1 | 1 | 10 | - |
| 31 | Joao Lourenco | Angola | 0.1 | 1 | 10 | - |
1. Xi dominated this year with the fading of the U.S. and the EU. But Xi's terrible treatment of the Uyghurs has brought China back to the back a bit.
2. Putin's man in the White House has been impeached and now there is heightened focus on Russia's actions in Ukraine. Yet, Putin's war in Ukraine even allowed Trump to try to bully Zelensky.
3. Kim started the year as a boogeyman who outwitted Trump. But he was quieter by the end of the year.
4. Ardern had a big year as a champion for liberal values and gun reform.
5. Ahmed won the Nobel Peace Prize attempting to reform his country.
6. Erdogan had an up-and-down year. He got back to the spotlight when the U.S. pulled out of Syrian and left the Kurds to fend for themselves.
7. Zelensky won the Ukraine presidency and then vaulted into the world spotlight and was indirectly responsible for the impeachment of a U.S. president.
8. Khamenei had brief pockets of notoriety on the world scene, but the Iranian economy isn't doing so well.
9. Macron had some moments of sticking up for liberal values this year.
10. Boris Johnson rallied at the end of the year with an unlikely landslide victory and a chance to get Brexit done.
11. Modi would be higher on the list if his administration wasn't so anti-Muslim.
12. Rasmussen made the list thanks to the good governance and freedom indexes his country enjoys.
13. Abe did well to make a trade deal witht eh EU since the U.S. seems to be anti-free trade. But Kim made him look like a bit of a fool.
14. Nana made the list because his country is relatively free and encourages female entrepreneurship.
15. Varadkar stuck it to U.S. Vice President Mike Pence during a meeting.
16. Netanyahu looked poised to form a government in the spring. Whoops. He didn't have a good year otherwise.
17. Trudeau got bad press for his scandal and his black face, but he won an election bigly regardless.
18. Masisi feuded with his predecessor, who happens to be the son of the Father of Botswana, an indication of the health of his country's democracy.
19. AMLO assumed the presidency of Mexico and had a promising, if not transformative year.
20. Marquez briefly helped the Venezuelan crisis.
21. Niinisto oversaw the happiest country in the world. The people in Finland didn't agree with the designation, but then, they don't realize how miserable the rest of us are.
22. Burhan isn't Omar al-Bashir, which was good enough to make the list.
23.Alvarado rules the most prosperous country in Central America.
24. Trump did not have a good year and managed to weaken the U.S. greatly on the world stage. Then he got impeached.
25. Moreno made the list when he booted out Julian Assange out of his embassy in London and then insulted him.
26. Bukele had a good interview on 60 Minutes. Who am I going to pick instead, that murderer Rodrigo Duterte?
27. The King met Harry and Meghan. That murderer Duterte didn't meet them.
28. Theresa May kept getting extensions on Brexit, but eventually not on her position as Prime Minister.
29. Pelligrini's government paid rent in Trump's buildings which means Pelligrini had sway over the impeached president.
30. Sultan Qaboos decreased corruption. Of course, he was the reason it was so high to begin with.
31. Lourenco could be worse. He could be that murderer Duterte.
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