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 (Read more...)