This individual was the most Googled person of the year

Politicians, athletes and actors among most-searched people


News Desk December 23, 2016
An illustration picture shows a woman holding her Apple Ipad tablet. PHOTO: REUTERS

United States president-elect Donald Trump has emerged as the top- trending person across 88 countries in 2016, according to data Google provided to TIME.

The most 'googled' people in Pakistan in 2016 

Among the many countries searching for Trump were Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Russia, Mexico and almost all of Europe. Other politicians featured on the list too, as well as athletes and celebrities. Disqualified Peruvian presidential candidate Julio Guzmán was the most-searched person in Peru. In Brazil, it was former president Lula da Silva who has been indicted for alleged corruption and money laundering.

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Columbia and Singapore were busy searching for Olympic gold medalists Mariana Pajón and Joseph Schooling, while actor Leonardo DiCaprio topped the list in Morocco, actor Angelina Jolie in Tunisia and model Gigi Hadid in Montenegro.

View the results in the form of an interactive map on TIME.

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