Brisbane is the host city for the 2014 G20 Leaders’ Summit, an event that is being called the most significant meeting of world leaders that Australia has ever hosted.

But what do we know about the leaders who will be arriving next month?

As our table shows, only four of the G20 leaders are women: German Chancellor Angela Merkel, South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Argentinian President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.

In terms of religion, Roman Catholicism is the faith that most leaders share. China’s President Xi Jinping, South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye and France’s President François Hollande are atheists.

The youngest leader is Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi at 39 years of age. King Abdullah ibn Abdilazīz of Saudi Arabia is the most senior member at 90.

In terms of education, the vast majority of leaders have tertiary qualifications, but Jacob Zuma has risen to become South Africa’s President despite receiving no formal education.

Most G20 leaders lean slightly to the right of the political spectrum, with most leading centre-right and right-wing political parties.

		Head of State	Age	Political Party	Religion	Education
Argentina		President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner	61	Justicialist Party (Centre)	Roman Catholicism	Law, National University of La Plata
Australia		Prime Minister Tony Abbott	56	Liberal Party of Australia	Roman Catholicism	Rhodes Scholar and Master of Arts (Politics and Philosophy), Oxford University
Brazil		President Dilma Rousseff	66	Workers’ Party (Centre-left to Left-wing)	Roman Catholicism	Bachelor of Arts/Science, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Canada		Prime Minister Stephen Harper	55	Conservative Party	Christian	MA Economics, University of Calgary
China		President Xi Jinping	61	Communist Party	Atheist	Doctoral degree in Law, Tsinghua University
France		President François Hollande	60	Socialist Party	Atheist	Graduated from Ecole Nationale d’Administration, which trains high-level French civil servants
Germany		Chancellor Angela Merkel	60	Christian Democratic Union (Centre-right)	Lutheranism	Doctorate in Physics, Leipzig University
India		Prime Minister Narendra Modi	64	Bharatiya Janata Party (Right-wing)	Hinduism	MA in Political Science, Gujarat University
Indonesia		President Joko Widodo	53	Indonesian Democratic Party – Struggle (Social democrat)	Islam	BA in Forestry, Gadjah Mada University
Italy		Prime Minister Matteo Renzi	39	Democratic Party (Centre-left)	Roman Catholicism	Law degree, University of Florence
Japan		Prime Minister Shinzō Abe	60	Liberal Democratic Party (Centre-right to Right-wing)	Shintoism/Zen Buddhism	Degree in Political Science, Seikei University
South Korea		President Park Geun-hye	62	Saenuri Party (Centre-right to Right-wing)	Atheist	BA in Electronic Engineering, Sogang University
Mexico		President Enrique Peña Nieto	48	Institutional Revolutionary Party (Centre to Centre-left)	Roman Catholicism	MA degree in Business Administration, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
Russia		President Vladimir Putin	62	United Russia (Conservatism, Statism)	Russian Orthodox	International Law, Leningrad State University; Later studied at KGB School No. 1 in Moscow
Saudi Arabia		King Abdullah ibn Abdilazīz of Saudi Arabia	90	N/A	Wahhabism	Early education at the Royal Court
South Africa		President Jacob Zuma	72	South African Communist Party	Protestantism	Received no formal schooling
Turkey		President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	60	Justice and Development Party (Centre-right)	Sunni Islam	Business Administration, Aksaray School of Economics and Commercial Sciences
United Kingdom		Prime Minister David Cameron	47	Conservative Party	Anglicanism	BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Brasenose College, Oxford
United States		President Barack Obama	53	Democrat	Christianity	J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard
European Union		Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council & José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission	66—58	Christian Democratic and Flemish Party (Centre-right)—Social Democratic Party (Centre-right)	Roman Catholicism—Roman Catholicism	MA in Applied Economics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven—MSc in Economic and Social Sciences, University of Geneva