Slobodan Milošević

About Slobodan Milošević

Slobodan Milošević (1941–2006) was a Serbian and Yugoslav politician who served as the President of Serbia and later the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. His historical importance, reflected in his HPI Rank of #939, stems primarily from his role during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, which involved nationalist policies, the Bosnian War, the Kosovo War, and subsequent international conflict and indictment for war crimes.

Despite this significant geopolitical impact, Milošević's modern internet attention in 2025 appears relatively modest, garnering approximately 924K Wikipedia views annually. This places his digital visibility substantially behind that of P. J. Abdul Kalam, a politician with a similar historical importance ranking (#990) who received 2.4 million views, or Reinhard Heydrich (#949), who drew 1.5 million views. In fact, Milošević receives over three times less attention than expected relative to his historical ranking, indicating an attention gap where contemporary digital focus is not fully matching his documented global cultural impact.

Interestingly, his 2025 attention is not entirely static; there is a +10% momentum increase observed between Q1 and Q3, suggesting recent or ongoing discussion around his legacy, even if the overall volume remains lower than peers.