Popularity ranking · South Africa

The 51 most popular Economists in South Africa

This curated ranking covers the 51 largest economists in South Africa, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Thomas Sowell, Kofi Annan and Nicolaus Copernicus lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 37k people. Across all 51 entries the average audience size is 2k, and the largest, Thomas Sowell, reaches around 21k people in South Africa. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in South Africa who actively engage with each economist, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across South Africa and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 51, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in South Africa who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in South Africa. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in South Africa, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in South Africa. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
26 Carsten Linnemann 242 41.4 43.7% Economist
27 Bernd Lucke 238 48.0 9.0% Economist
28 B. R. Ambedkar 211 32.3 13.4% Economist
29 Maja Göpel 204 42.9 52.0% Economist
30 Zeti Akhtar Aziz 186 47.0 14.7% Economist
31 Pedro Passos Coelho 185 48.1 32.5% Economist
32 Anders Fogh Rasmussen 161 46.1 42.7% Economist
33 Talaat Harb 159 41.9 5.4% Economist
34 Rafael Correa 158 43.3 43.0% Economist
35 Alejandro Toledo 149 43.6 41.3% Economist
36 Axel Kicillof 138 41.6 57.0% Economist
37 Hans-Werner Sinn 138 43.7 41.8% Economist
38 Miroslav Kalousek 125 44.3 32.6% Economist
39 Sri Mulyani Indrawati 125 37.9 32.9% Economist
40 Mustapa Mohamed 124 39.8 31.0% Economist
41 Pedro Pablo Kuczynski 122 41.0 44.3% Economist
42 Amado Boudou 97 40.9 61.6% Economist
43 Manmohan Singh 87 43.2 65.3% Economist
44 Salam Fayyad 86 30.5 39.0% Economist
45 Rizal Ramli 85 35.5 21.9% Economist
46 Mar Roxas 84 33.9 52.4% Economist
47 Christian Rieck 81 36.6 26.7% Economist
48 Sven Giegold 77 52.7 36.5% Economist
49 Danilo Medina 22 48.8 81.0% Economist
50 Boyce Watkins 20 37.3 28.9% Economist

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular economists compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across South Africa and ranks each economist by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest economist in South Africa?

Thomas Sowell currently leads with an estimated audience of 21k people in South Africa.

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