PM Narendra Modi among top 3 world leaders; ahead of Trump, Putin

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been ranked at number 3 position as per Gallup International Survey which ranks top leaders of the world.

Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Switzerland for Davos summit, an international survey has ranked him among the top three leaders of the world.

As the survey, the top position went to French Emmanuel Macron who bagged a net score of 21 points, whereas the second top position was bagged by German chancellor Angela Merkel, with the net score of 20 points.

According to Gallup, 53,769 people were interviewed globally. In each country a representative sample of around 1,000 men and women was interviewed either face-to-face, or via phone, or via various online mediums.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi ranked at 3rd position with a net score of 8 points. The respondents in the survey, which was conducted among the people across 50 countries, had rated Prime Minister Modi ahead of China's Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, British Prime Minister Theresa May, Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu amongst others.

Prime Minister Modi will be on a two-day visit to Davos, Switzerland, to attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting between January 22 and 23.