The list contains 19 political figures, 22 businessmen and nine figures of culture, science, show business and sports.
Among the politicians, in particular, the leaders of Turkey, the United States and France, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Chinese President Xi Jinping, former US President Barack Obama, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and heir Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud.
In addition, the list included the former CIA and National Security Agency agent Edward Snowden, the leader of mass protests in Hong Kong Joshua Wong, the former director of the Moscow anti-doping laboratory Grigory Rodchenkov.
The newspaper also included Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings, Uber co-founder Travis Kalanik, and Tesla head Ilon Mask among the iconic figures of the decade.
In April, the American Time magazine published a list of the 100 most influential people in 2019.