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30 million and rising – PM Modi sets global benchmark on YouTube!

Among major global leaders, PM Modi today has the highest number of Instagram followers.
March 03, 2026 / 12:59 IST
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PM Narendra Modi has crossed the significant milestone of 30 million subscribers on YouTube. This further cemented his position as the most followed world leader on the platform. Among world leaders, PM Modi has the highest number of subscribers on YouTube. As per the rankings, he is comfortably ahead of others in the category.

The second highest is former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who has a subscriber base that is only about one-fourth of PM Modi’s. According to data based on Source tubics.com, PM Modi has more than seven times the number of subscribers compared to US President Donald Trump.

It was before his visit to Israel last week, PM Modi became the most followed world leader on Instagram as well. He crossed the historic milestone of 100 million followers on Instagram. He became the first world leader and politician to achieve this feat on the platform. PM Modi joined Instagram in 2014 and over the past decade, his account has evolved into one of the most engaging digital spaces among global leaders.

Among major global leaders, PM Modi today has the highest number of Instagram followers. Notably, he has more than twice as many followers as US President Donald Trump on Instagram. In fact, total count of followers of next five major world leaders is lower than PM Modi’s individual follower count.

US President Donald Trump holds the second spot with 43.2 million followers. He is followed by Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto with 15 million followers, Brazilian President Lula with 14.4 million followers, Turkish President Erdogan with 11.6 million followers and Argentine President Javier Milei with 6.4 million followers have also a great social media presence  but far less than PM Modi

This underlines PM Modi’s unmatched global outreach and popularity among the youth across the world.

Moreover, within India as well, the gap in the number of followers is staggering. The PM is miles ahead of other Indian political leaders on Instagram. The second spot is held by Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath with around 16.1 million followers, followed by Rahul Gandhi with approximately 12.6 million followers.

Within India, the dominance and the popularity are clear. On the subscriber front, PM Modi has around three times more subscribers than Rahul Gandhi and over four times more than AAP and INC separately.

All this data underlines the scale of PM Narendra Modi's digital outreach and engagement worldwide.

Amitabh Sinha
Amitabh Sinha is the executive editor of News18 India. He has extensive experience in print and TV journalism. He started his career with Patna's 'Times of India' and reported for almost 14 years at 'Aaj Tak'. He has been associated with Network18 since 2015. writes with equal authority in Hindi and English languages and has reported on many important events and incidents in India and abroad. He has a long experience in parliamentary journalism and has special grasp of e policies and schemes of the government. He writes regularly on News18's website in both Hindi and English languages. He is a post graduate from Delhi University. X- @amitabhnews18
first published: Mar 3, 2026 12:59 pm

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