List of countries by the number of US dollar billionaires

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The following is a list of known U.S. dollar billionaires in 2011 as of March 2011, listed by nationality, and grouped by continent.^[1] The lists of billionaires is compiled annually by the Forbes Magazine. The list excludes heads of states whose wealth is tied to their position (see list of heads of government and state by net worth).

World wide top 10 (2011)

Rank	Country/Region	Number of billionaires^[1]	Share of world total (%)	Billionaires per 10M	Category
—	World total	1210	100.0	1.7
1	United States	412	34.0	13.2	American billionaires
2	People's Republic of China	115	10.6	0.9	Chinese billionaires
3	Russia	101	8.3	7.1	Russian billionaires
4	India	55	4.5	0.5	Indian billionaires
5	Germany	52	4.3	6.4	German billionaires
6	Turkey	38	3.1	5.2	Turkish billionaires
7	Hong Kong	36	3.0	51.0	Hong Kong billionaires
8	United Kingdom	33	2.7	5.3	British billionaires
9	Brazil	30	2.5	1.6	Brazilian billionaires
10	Japan	26	2.1	2.0	Japanese billionaires

Total = 14

Rank	Nation	Number of billionaires^[1]
1	Egypt	8
1	South Africa	4
3	Nigeria	2

Total = 407

Rank	Nation/Region	Number of billionaires^[1]
1	People's Republic of China	271^[2]
2	India	69^[3]
3	Hong Kong	25
4	Japan	22
4	Indonesia	22^[4]
6	Republic of China (Taiwan)	18
7	Israel	16^[5]
8	South Korea	11
9	Philippines	11^[6]
10	Malaysia	9
11	Saudi Arabia	8
12	Lebanon	6
13	Kazakhstan	5
14	Singapore	4
15	United Arab Emirates	4
16	Thailand	3
17	Kuwait	3
18	Pakistan	1^[7]^[8]

Total = 266

Rank	Nation	Number of billionaires^[1]
1	Russia	62
2	Germany	53
3	Turkey	38
4	United Kingdom	29
5	Italy	13
5	Spain	13
7	France	12
8	Switzerland	11
9	Sweden	10
10	Ireland	6
11	Ukraine	5
12	Netherlands	5
13	Austria	4
13	Norway	4
13	Poland	4
16	Czech Republic	3
16	Denmark	3
16	Romania	3
19	Portugal	2
19	Greece	2
21	Monaco	1