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Yahya Jammeh

1965 - Today

Yahya Jammeh

Yahya Abdul-Aziz James Junkung Jammeh (born 25 May 1965) is a Gambian politician and former military officer, who served as President of the Gambia from 1996 to 2017, as well as Chairman of the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council from 1994 to 1996. Jammeh was born in Kanilai, in the Gambia, and is a Muslim of the Jola ethnic group. He attended Gambia High School in Banjul from 1978 to 1983 and served in the Gambian National Gendarmerie from 1984 to 1989. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yahya Jammeh has received more than 1,775,546 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Yahya Jammeh is the 8,358th most popular politician (up from 8,947th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from The Gambia (down from 2nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Gambian Politician.

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54.12
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
59
Languages Editions (L)
7.02
Effective Languages (L*)
3.99
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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Yahya Jammeh ranks 8,358 out of 15,577. Before him are Bohemond V of Antioch, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Alejandro Lerroux, King An of Zhou, and Louise Julie de Mailly-Nesle. After him are Ninurta-apal-Ekur, Jahandar Shah, King Yi of Zhou, Inoue Kaoru, Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, and Hélène Carrère d'Encausse.

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HPI: 54.13
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HPI: 54.13
Rank: 8,353
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
1738 - 1809
HPI: 54.13
Rank: 8,354
Alejandro Lerroux
1864 - 1949
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 8,355
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450 BC - 376 BC
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 8,356
Louise Julie de Mailly-Nesle
1710 - 1751
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 8,357
Yahya Jammeh
1965 - Present
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 8,358
Ninurta-apal-Ekur
1300 BC - 1200 BC
HPI: 54.11
Rank: 8,359
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1661 - 1713
HPI: 54.11
Rank: 8,360
King Yi of Zhou
1000 BC - 892 BC
HPI: 54.11
Rank: 8,361
Inoue Kaoru
1836 - 1915
HPI: 54.11
Rank: 8,362
Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
1522 - 1557
HPI: 54.11
Rank: 8,363
Hélène Carrère d'Encausse
1929 - 2023
HPI: 54.10
Rank: 8,364