List of countries by the number of billionaires

Countries by the number of billionaires by net worth (USD) in 2017

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This is a list of countries by the number of billionaires by net worth (USD) based on an annual assessment of wealth and assets compiled and published by Forbes magazine.^[1] This list excludes lists compiled and published by Business Insider, Challenges, Hurun Report,^[2] The Sunday Times, UBS and other sources.

Billionaires by continent

World rank	Continent	Number of billionaires ^[1]	Richest in the continent	Net worth in billions (USD)	Date updated
–	World	2,208	Jeff Bezos	132.8	May 2018
1	Asia	719	Ma Huateng	51.1	April 2018
2	North America	631	Jeff Bezos	132.8	May 2018
3	Europe	559	Bernard Arnault	83.7	May 2018
4	South America	85	Jorge Paulo Lemann	29.7	January 2018
5	Oceania	35	Gina Rinehart	17.40	2018
6	Africa	25	Aliko Dangote	14.1	March 2018

Billionaires by country or dependency

Continents each country resides in:

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North America

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South America

Oceania

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Transcontinental

World rank	Country	Number of billionaires	Richest in the country	Richest in the country's net worth in billions USD (year)
1	China	819^[3]	Ma Huateng	51.1 (2018)
2	United States	585	Jeff Bezos	132.8 (2018)
3	India^[4]	131	Mukesh Ambani	40.5 (2018)
4	Germany	114	Beate Heister and Karl Albrecht Jr.	31.1 (2017)
5	Russia	96	Leonid Mikhelson	18.4 (2017)
6	Hong Kong	67	Li Ka-shing	37.7 (2018)
7	United Kingdom	54	Hinduja family	19.8 (2018)
8	Brazil	43	Jorge Paulo Lemann	29.7 (2018)
9	Italy	42	Maria Franca Fissolo	28 (2018)
10	Canada	39	David Thomson	27.2 (2017)
11	France	38	Bernard Arnault	83.5 (2018)
11	South Korea	38	Lee Kun-hee	20.6 (2018)
13	Switzerland	36	Ernesto Bertarelli	9 (2017)
14	Australia	33	Gina Rinehart	17.40 (2018)
14	Japan	33	Masayoshi Son	23 (2018)
16	Sweden	31	Stefan Persson	18.9 (2017)
16	Taiwan	31	Terry Gou	10.6 (2017)
18	Turkey	29	Murat Ülker	3.9 (2017)
19	Spain	25	Amancio Ortega	68.4 (2018)
20	Singapore	21	Robert and Philip Ng	9.7 (2017)
21	Indonesia	20	Robert Budi Hartono	12.6 (2018)
21	Thailand	20	Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi	19.9 (2018)
23	Israel	18	Eyal Ofer	9.7 (2018)
24	Mexico	15	Carlos Slim Helú	70.5 (2018)
25	Philippines	14	Henry Sy	19.8 (2018)
25	Norway	14	Odd Reitan	4.19 (2017)
27	Chile	12	Iris Fontbona	16.3 (2018)
27	Malaysia	12	Robert Kuok	15.4 (2018)
29	Netherlands	10	Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken	16.1 (2018)
29	Saudi Arabia	10	Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud	18.7
31	Austria	8	Dietrich Mateschitz	21.2 (2018)
	Ireland	8	Pallonji Mistry	18.7 (2018)
	South Africa	8	Nicky Oppenheimer	7 (2017)
34	Argentina	7	Alejandro Bulgheroni	3.5 (2017)
	Egypt	7	Nassef Sawiris	5.3 (2016)
	Finland	7	Antti Herlin	4.2 (2016)
	UAE	7	Al Ghurair Family	5.9 (2018)
37	Cyprus	6	John Fredriksen	7.4 (2018)
	Czech Republic	6	Petr Kellner	11.4
	Denmark	6	Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen	5.5 (2018)
	Ukraine	6	Rinat Akhmetov	4.5
41	Kazakhstan	5	Bulat Utemuratov	2.3 (2015)
41	Peru	5	Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor	2.6 (2017)
43	Greece	4	Spiros Latsis	3.2 (2018)
	Kuwait	4	Bassam and Kutayba Alghanim	1.4 (2018)
	Lebanon	4	Najib and Taha Mikati	2.7 (2018)
	Monaco	4	Tatiana Casiraghi	2.3 (2017)
	Poland	4	Dominika and Sebastian Kulczyk	3.8 (2018)
	Portugal	4	Américo Amorim	4.8 (2017)
	Vietnam	4	Pham Nhat Vuong	6.9 (2018)
49	Colombia	3	Luis Carlos Sarmiento	11.3 (2017)
	Morocco	3	Othman Benjelloun	1.67 (2018)
	Nigeria	3	Aliko Dangote	14.1 (2018)
	Oman	3	Suhail Bahwan	3.4 (2018)
54	Belgium	2	Albert Frère	5.2 (2017)
	New Zealand	2	Graeme Hart	10.3 (2018)
	St. Kitts & Nevis	2	Wu Xu	1.6 (2018)
	Venezuela	2	Juan Carlos Escotet	4.4 (2018)
59	Algeria	1	Issad Rebrab	4.31 (2017)
	Angola	1	Isabel dos Santos	3.5 (2017)
	Bangladesh	1	Salman F Rahman	8.5 (2018)
	Georgia	1	Bidzina Ivanishvili	4.5 (2017)
	Guernsey	1	Stephen Lansdown	2.4 (2018)
	Hungary	1	Sandor Csanyi	1.14 (2018)
	Iceland	1	Thor Björgólfsson	1.99 (2018)
	Jordan	1	Ziyad Manasir	1.1 (2015)
	Liechtenstein	1	Christoph Zeller	2.5 (2016)
	Macau	1	Hoi Kin Hong	1.58 (2018)
	Nepal	1	Binod Chaudhary	1.5 (2018)
	Romania	1	Ion Țiriac	1.19 (2018)
	Slovakia	1	Ivan Chrenko	1.31 (2018)
	Swaziland	1	Nathan Kirsh	3.9 (2017)
	Tanzania	1	Mohammed Dewji	1.52 (2018)
	Zimbabwe	1	Strive Masiyiwa	1.65 (2018)

References

^ ^a ^b The World's Billionaires List, forbes.com
^ Hurun Global Rich List 2016 Archived 2016-04-30 at the Wayback Machine., hurun.net
^ "Communist China has 104 billionaires leading the country while Xi Jinping promises to lift millions out of poverty" https://www.businessinsider.com/billionaires-in-china-xi-jinping-parliament-income-inequality-2018-3
^ "India climbs back to third spot in billionaires list". The Financial Express. 2018-03-01. Retrieved 2018-03-07.
^ VnExpress. "Vietnam's billionaire count doubles to 4 on Forbes' rich list - VnExpress International".
^ "The World's Billionaires".

[forbes.com-1] The World's Billionaires List, forbes.com

[2] Hurun Global Rich List 2016 Archived 2016-04-30 at the Wayback Machine., hurun.net

[3] "Communist China has 104 billionaires leading the country while Xi Jinping promises to lift millions out of poverty" https://www.businessinsider.com/billionaires-in-china-xi-jinping-parliament-income-inequality-2018-3

[4] "India climbs back to third spot in billionaires list". The Financial Express. 2018-03-01. Retrieved 2018-03-07.

[5] VnExpress. "Vietnam's billionaire count doubles to 4 on Forbes' rich list - VnExpress International".

[6] "The World's Billionaires".

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