The US remains top of a “Soft-Power Index” that shows how many world leaders it has educated, but the UK has closed the gap for the first time.
The league table, published annually by the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) since 2017, counts the number of serving world leaders (monarchs, presidents and prime ministers) educated at a higher level in countries other than their own.
The UK briefly topped the rankings in its first year, before the US overtook it in 2018 and has extended its lead in every subsequent year.
However, the number of world leaders educated in the US has fallen from 67 to 65 over the last year, while the number educated in the UK has grown from 56 to 58.
