These Are The Richest Billionaires In Each Country

While there are nearly 8 billion people in the world, just over 3,000 are billionaires as of November 2022. As Visual Capitalist’s Carmen Ang notes, this tiny group of people is worth nearly $11.8 trillion – Equivalent to about 11.8% of global GDP.

Where do these billionaires live? This graphic by Truman Du uses data from Forbes to map out the richest billionaires around the world.

The Full List

As it turns out, billionaires are a lot more geographically concentrated than you might think.

In fact, of the 195 officially recognized countries around the world, only 76 are home to billionaires. And even within these countries, there’s vast disparities between the quantity of billionaires.

Here’s a breakdown of all the countries that have at least one billionaire. For countries with more than one, we’ve highlighted the billionaire with the highest net worth as of November 28, 2022:

Country/territory
Name
Net worth ($B)
Main source of wealth (sector)
🇩🇿 Algeria
Issad Rebrab
5.1
food
🇦🇷 Argentina
Marcos Galperin
4.0
e-commerce
🇦🇲 Armenia
Ruben Vardanyan
1.3
investment banking
🇦🇺 Australia
Gina Rinehart
27.9
mining
🇦🇹 Austria
Georg Stumpf
7.9
real estate, construction
🇧🇩 Bangladesh
Muhammed Aziz Khan
1.0
power
🇧🇧 Barbados
Rihanna
1.4
music, cosmetics
🇧🇪 Belgium
Eric Wittouck
9.0
investments
🇧🇿 Belize
Kenneth Dart
4.0
investments
🇧🇷 Brazil
Jorge Paulo Lemann
15.6
beer
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
Georgi & Kiril Domuschiev
1.9
animal health, investments
🇨🇦 Canada
David Thomson
53.2
media
🇨🇱 Chile
Iris Fontbona
19.6
mining
🇨🇳 China
Zhong Shanshan
66.7
beverages, pharmaceuticals
🇨🇴 Colombia
Luis Carlos Sarmiento
6.3
banking
🇨🇾 Cyprus
John Fredriksen
11.4
shipping
🇨🇿 Czechia
Renata Kellnerova
16.0
finance, telecommunications
🇩🇰 Denmark
Anders Holch Povlsen
11.9
fashion retail
🇪🇬 Egypt
Nassef Sawiris
7.2
construction, investments
🇪🇪 Estonia
Kristo Kaarmann
1.4
payments, banking
🇫🇮 Finland
Antti Herlin
3.9
elevators, escalators
🇫🇷 France
Bernard Arnault
179.5
LVMH
🇬🇪 Georgia
Bidzina Ivanishvili
4.8
investments
🇩🇪 Germany
Beate Heister & Karl Albrecht Jr.
35.1
supermarkets
🇬🇷 Greece
Vicky Safra
7.1
banking
🇬🇬 Guernsey
Stephen Lansdown
2.3
financial services
🇭🇰 Hong Kong
Li Ka-shing
33.0
diversified
🇭🇺 Hungary
Sandor Csanyi
1.1
finance, real estate
🇮🇸 Iceland
Thor Bjorgolfsson
2.5
investments
🇮🇳 India
Gautam Adani
133.6
infrastructure, commodities
🇮🇩 Indonesia
R. Budi Hartono
23.4
banking, tobacco
🇮🇪 Ireland
John Collison & Patrick Collison
8,1
payments software
🇮🇱 Israel
Eyal Ofer
14.4
real estate, shipping
🇮🇹 Italy
Giovanni Ferrero
34.4
Nutella, chocolates
🇯🇵 Japan
Tadashi Yanai
29.2
fashion retail
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
Vladimir Kim
5.0
mining
🇱🇧 Lebanon
Taha Mikati
2.8
telecom
🇱🇮 Liechtenstein
Christoph Zeller
2.2
dental materials
🇲🇴 Macau
Hoi Kin Hong
1.2
real estate
🇲🇾 Malaysia
Quek Leng Chan
10.2
banking, property
🇲🇽 Mexico
Carlos Slim Helu
86.2
telecom
🇲🇨 Monaco
Stefano Pessina
9.3
drugstores
🇲🇦 Morocco
Aziz Akhannouch
1.8
petroleum
🇳🇵 Nepal
Binod Chaudhary
1.5
diversified
🇳🇱 Netherlands
Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken
15.0
Heineken
🇳🇿 New Zealand
Graeme Hart
10.1
investments
🇳🇬 Nigeria
Aliko Dangote
12.9
cement, sugar
🇳🇴 Norway
Andreas Halvorsen
6.6
hedge funds
🇴🇲 Oman
Suhail Bahwan
2.0
diversified
🇵🇪 Peru
Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor
4.3
finance
🇵🇭 Philippines
Manuel Villar
7.0
real estate
🇵🇱 Poland
Michal Solowow
6.0
investments
🇵🇹 Portugal
Maria Fernanda Amorim
4.5
energy, investments
🇶🇦 Qatar
Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani
1.9
hotels
🇷🇴 Romania
Ion Stoica & Matei Zaharia
1.6
data analytics
🇷🇺 Russia
Andrey Melnichenko
27.0
coal, fertilizers
🇸🇬 Singapore
Li Xiting
16.6
medical devices
🇸🇰 Slovakia
Ivan Chrenko
1.6
real estate
🇿🇦 South Africa
Johann Rupert
9.0
luxury goods
🇰🇷 South Korea
Jay Y. Lee
7.9
samsung
🇪🇸 Spain
Amancio Ortega
62.5
Zara
🇰🇳 St. Kitts and Nevis
Myron Wentz
1.3
health products
🇸🇿 Swaziland (Eswatini)
Nathan Kirsh
5.4
retail, real estate
🇸🇪 Sweden
Stefan Persson
15.3
H&M
🇨🇭Switzerland
Guillaume Pousaz
23.0
fintech
🇹🇼 Taiwan
Zhang Congyuan
6.7
shoes
🇹🇿 Tanzania
Mohammed Dewji
1.5
diversified
🇹🇭 Thailand
Sarath Ratanavadi
12.2
energy
🇹🇷 Turkey
Ibrahim Erdemoglu
6.5
carpet
🇺🇦 Ukraine
Rinat Akhmetov
4.3
steel, coal
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
Pavel Durov
15.1
messaging app
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Michael Platt
15.2
hedge funds
🇺🇸 United States
Elon Musk
191.2
Tesla, SpaceX
🇻🇪 Venezuela
Juan Carlos Escotet
3.2
banking
🇻🇳 Vietnam
Pham Nhat Vuong
4.7
diversified
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
Strive Masiyiwa
1.2
telecom

The United States is well known to have one of the highest concentrations of billionaires. It’s home to over 900, with Elon Musk the wealthiest of them all with a staggering net worth of over $191 billion in November 2022. That makes him not just the richest billionaire in America, but the richest person in the world.

China has the second highest concentration of billionaires, with 400 ultra-wealthy that have a combined net worth of $1.45 trillion. China’s richest billionaire, Zhong Shanshan, is the founder of the Nongfu Spring beverage company.

Interestingly, there are no clear patterns when it comes to the type of industry or sector that these billionaires are involved in. The exception is the U.S., where a significant number of billionaires are linked to the tech industry.

And it’s important to note that some heads of states are reportedly billionaires, and in many cases might be the wealthiest people in their respective countries. But their wealth is often a state secret, well-diversified, and too difficult to accurately estimate.

Male vs. Female Billionaires

One trend that does stand out is the number of men versus women who are billionaires. Of the 76 billionaires on the list, only 7 are women.

This pattern is also evident when looking at the entire billionaire population—of the 3,311 billionaires worldwide, only 12.9% are women.

It’s worth mentioning that this population of billionaire women is rising. According to Forbes, the 2021 list included 328 women, 36% more than in 2020.