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Salva Kiir Mayardit

1951 - Today

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Salva Kiir Mayardit (born 13 September 1951), commonly known as Salva Kiir, is a South Sudanese politician who has been the President of South Sudan since its independence on 9 July 2011. Prior to independence, he was the President of the Government of Southern Sudan, as well as First Vice President of Sudan, from 2005 to 2011. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Salva Kiir Mayardit has received more than 1,700,633 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Salva Kiir Mayardit is the 2,341st most popular politician (up from 3,857th in 2019), the most popular biography from South Sudan and the most popular South Sudanese Politician.

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 66

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Salva Kiir Mayardit ranks 2,341 out of 19,576. Before him are Herod Agrippa II, Pepin of Italy, Gaston Doumergue, Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta, Ælla of Northumbria, and Barsine. After him are Emperor Zhenzong, Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Wang Zhaojun, Damdin Sükhbaatar, Theodoric II, and Hage Geingob.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Salva Kiir Mayardit ranks 24. Before him are Kurt Russell, Michael Keaton, Akhmad Kadyrov, Paul Breitner, Aslan Maskhadov, and Gordon Brown. After him are Tommy Hilfiger, Mark Hamill, Jane Seymour, Juan Manuel Santos, Traian Băsescu, and Jill Biden.

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In South Sudan

Among people born in South Sudan, Salva Kiir Mayardit ranks 1 out of 9. After him are Riek Machar (1953), Alek Wek (1977), Luol Deng (1985), Guor Marial (1984), James Moga (1983), Thon Maker (1997), Lopez Lomong (1985), Rose Lokonyen (1995), Duop Reath (1996), Abraham Guem (1999), and Amur Al-Khanjari (2000).

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Among POLITICIANS In South Sudan

Among politicians born in South Sudan, Salva Kiir Mayardit ranks 1. After him are Riek Machar (1953).

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