Modi Most Popular World Leader On Facebook

Study of most popular world leader on Facebook conducted by global communications agency BCW (Burson Cohn & Wolfe), titled "World Leaders on Facebook", said March witnessed a significant spike in the following of state leaders, specifically because of the COVID-19 outbreak.

The study suggested that PM Narendra Modi continues to remain the most popular world leader on Facebook. The Indian PM has nearly 45 million likes on his personal page.

US President Donald Trump is the 2nd most popular world leader on Facebook, with more than 26 million likes and Jordan’s Queen Rania is in the 3rd spot with 16.8 million likes.

Ahead of visiting India in February this year, Trump had boasted about being Number 1 on Facebook. "Great honor, I think? Mark Zuckerberg recently stated that "Donald J. Trump is Number 1 on Facebook. Number 2 is Prime Minister Modi of India.

Albeit at No 2 on popularity, yet Trump took the top spot in terms of interactions. With 309 million comments, likes, and shares on his Facebook page over the past 12 months, Trump is ahead of Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro (205 million interactions).

PM Modi holds the 3rd spot with 84 million interactions over the past 12 months. However, the Indian leader has a better interaction rate (averaging 202,633 interactions per post), which is around 3 times as many as Trump (74,521 average interactions per publication).

Also to be noted that the top 5 Facebook posts with the most interactions of any world leader were all shared by PM Modi. With 21,122,252 views and 1,694,245 comments, likes, and shares, the 1-minute video showing the Indian PM praying to Goddess Jagdamba during the Navaratri festival is the most-watched video posted by any world leader.

The second most liked video is the one in which PM Modi went 'plogging' on Mamallapuram beach during the morning walk. It received 1,110,106