The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has the most followers on the social network Instagram of all heads of state in Europe - presidents and monarchs. 16,2 million people follow Zelenski there.
King Charles of Great Britain does not have his own Instagram account, like most monarchs in Europe, but that is why the official profile of the British royal family has 13,3 million "fans".
An analysis of the Instagram accounts of heads of state, conducted by "Vreme", shows that in third place is the president of Turkey, a country that extends to a small part of Europe, Recep Tayyip Erdogan with 11,8 million "followers", followed by Pope Francis as the head of the least countries in the world of the Vatican with 9,2 million.
Only the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, has a seven-digit number of followers in Europe on this social network - 3,4 million, and the new King of Denmark, Frederik X, that is, the account of his royal family, which has exceeded one million. Close to this figure is the account of the King of the Netherlands, Willem Alexander, who is currently followed by more than 933.000 people.
Vučić solid
Among the more popular European heads of state on Instagram are Czech President Petr Pavel with more than 691.000 followers, as well as Slovak President Zuzana Čaputova with 493.000. The President of Russia Vladimir Putin does not have an official profile on this network, but an unverified account of the institution of the President of Russia can be found in the search @russia_kremlin with more than 555.000 followers.
Between 300.000 and 400.000 followers have the pages of the king of Norway and the presidents of Poland and Germany. They are followed by the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, who on his personal profile @avucic followed by more than 247.000 people, and on the official account as the president of the country @buducnostsrbijeav 207.000.
When it comes to presidents from former Yugoslavia, after Vučić, the first man of Montenegro, Jakov Milatović, has the most "fans" - 40.700, followed by Croatia's Zoran Milanović 37.600, North Macedonia's Stevo Pendarovski 26.300, and Slovenia's Nataša Pirc Musar 14.300. The least in this area are the members of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Denis Bećirović with 14.300, Željka Cvijanović with 10.200 and Željko Komšić with 9.700 followers.
The President of Kosovo, Vjosa Osmani, has as many as 157.000 followers on Instagram, the most after the President of Serbia in the entire Balkans.
Among the least popular on this social network are the presidents of Malta and Estonia with slightly more than 10.000 followers each.
A total of ten statesmen from Europe are not present on Instagram, or at least it is not possible to easily find their profiles.
Green and the most active
If we were to look at the number of posts on the Instagram accounts of heads of state, it could be said that the most active profile is that of the President of Ukraine, who has almost 6.000 "posts", followed by the accounts of the British royal family with more than 4.700 and the President of Serbia with almost 4.300 posts. The account of the institution of the Russian president, which cannot be precisely determined to be official, has more than 5.000 posts.
Among the most active, with more than 3.000 posts, are the kings of Denmark and Sweden and the president of Finland. Right from them in terms of activity are the presidents of Poland and North Macedonia, while most of the others have less than 2.000 posted photos each.
