VoteMerit
Juan Manuel Santos

Juan Manuel Santos

Legacy

🇨🇴Colombia

Rank #175
Score: 57
About Juan Manuel Santos

Juan Manuel Santos (b. 1951) served as President from 2010–2018 and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016 for negotiating a peace agreement with the FARC guerrillas. A seasoned politician and economist, Santos also held key cabinet roles. His administration emphasised peacebuilding, infrastructure, and international diplomacy, though economic inequality persisted.

Scoring Breakdown
Detailed analysis of the politician's score.

HDI
~0.79 (Colombia)7/10
Source: ND-GAIN — Colombia country index (2023 )
GDP per capita
~ $20,784.5 (PPP)7/10
Source: ND-GAIN — Colombia GDP PPP (2023 )
Gini coefficient
~ 0.548 (inequality)3/10
Source: CryptoNews / inequality data (2025 )
Employment rate
~ 63.85% (Statista)3/5
Source: Statista — Colombia socioeconomic indicators (2025 )
Freedom index
Freedom House — Colombia report (peace accords era + democratic institutions)4/10
Source: Freedom House — Colombia country profile (2023 )
Corruption index
Freedom from corruption ~41 (Heritage data)2/5
Source: TheGlobalEconomy — Colombia corruption index (2025 )

Derived Criminal Score
No widely documented criminal convictions (peace process controversies, but no final criminal conviction)19/20
Source: Public record / media (2025 )