How Many World Leaders Could You Name?

Posted by Sue Anderson, 14th Jul 2015

As a nation, our knowledge of other world leaders outside of Great Britain is somewhat limited if the results of our latest survey are anything to go by.

Realistically, how many world leaders do you think you could name, aside from our Prime Minister and the Queen, that is? We polled 2,189 people aged 18 and over from around the UK and also 1,062 adults from overseas at the same time, to put their knowledge to the test.

The results were pretty shocking!



Most of Us Can't Name World Leaders of Popular Holiday Destinations



We asked everybody polled to identify any of the world leaders associated with a list of popular holiday destinations (either the President, Prime Minister, King or Queen). When asked to identify a world leader who was in power in Mexico, 96% of the respondents failed to name Enrique Pena Nieto as President. Furthermore, only 5% of respondents could tell us that the current King of Spain was Felipe VI.

100% of the respondents failed to identify the President of Cyprus as Nicos Anastasiades and 74% of the Britons taking part in our survey couldn't name the President or the Prime Minister of France. 81% of the British people taking part could not name the Queen of St. Lucia in the Caribbean, despite the answer being Queen Elizabeth II; our very own Queen! 98% of respondents couldn't name the Prime Minister or President of Egypt.

78% of Foreigners Could Name David Cameron and 91% Could Name Our Queen



However, when we asked the non-UK residents who took part in the poll, 78% of the all foreign respondents could correctly identify David Cameron as Prime Minister of the UK and 91% could identify Queen Elizabeth II as the Queen of Great Britain and the British Empire.

Us Brits can be an ignorant bunch and it's about time some people admitted it to themselves. To see that so many people from the UK cannot name well-known world leaders was a big surprise; especially when we then see that so many foreigners can name David Cameron as Prime Minister.
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