Mapping Out 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. 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.

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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.