ECONOMIST

Abdi Farah Shirdon

1958 - Today

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Abdi Farah Shirdon (Somali: Cabdi Faarax Shirdoon; Arabic: عبدي فارح شردون; born 1958) is a Somali businessman, economist and politician. He served as the prime minister of Somalia between October 2012 and December 2013. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abdi Farah Shirdon has received more than 74,193 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Abdi Farah Shirdon is the 323rd most popular economist (down from 307th in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Somalia (up from 22nd in 2019) and the most popular Somali Economist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 74k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 0.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Abdi Farah Shirdon ranks 323 out of 414. Before him are Mariana Mazzucato, John Neville Keynes, Bernard Lietaer, Beatrice Webb, Leonid Abalkin, and Lawrence Summers. After him are Michel Chossudovsky, Ilham Tohti, Guido Imbens, Ha-Joon Chang, Branko Milanović, and John Lipsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Abdi Farah Shirdon ranks 276. Before him are Salah Assad, Luísa Diogo, Chuck Russell, Ahmad Vahidi, Radu Mihăileanu, and Sakine Cansız. After him are Yuval Steinitz, Patricia Heaton, Adrian Rawlins, Pedro Costa, Georgi Slavkov, and Jello Biafra.

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In Somalia

Among people born in Somalia, Abdi Farah Shirdon ranks 21 out of 58. Before him are Ayaan Hirsi Ali (1969), Abdulqawi Yusuf (1948), Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud (1936), Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (1962), Hassan Ali Khayre (1968), and Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal (1928). After him are Sharif Sheikh Ahmed (1964), Abdirahman Ahmed Ali Tuur (1931), Mo Farah (1983), Hawa Abdi (1947), Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein (1912), and Dahir Riyale Kahin (1952).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Somalia

Among economists born in Somalia, Abdi Farah Shirdon ranks 1. 

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