World’s billionaires by country

Published March 10th, 2007 in Misc, Turkey Tags: billionaire, billionaires, forbes, money, turkey, turkish, wealth.

Forbes announced its 2007 edition of the world’s billionaires. The list contains 946 billionaires, among which 178 are newcomers. 65% of last year’s billionaires are richer and 17% are poorer. The billionaires’ combined net worth climbed by $900 billion to $3.5 trillion. That equates to $3.6 billion apiece. The average billionaire is 62 years old, two years younger than in 2005. Here’s the number of billionaires per country (the top 15): Apparently, Turkey has 25 billionaires, ranking in the world league at a whopping number 6!

1) USA (432)
2) Germany (55)
3) Russia (53)
4) India (36)
5) UK (29)
6) Turkey (25)
7) Japan (24)
8) Canada (23)
9) Hong Kong (21)
10) Brazil, Spain, China (20)
11) France (15)
12) Saudi Arabia (13)
13) Australia (12)
14) South Korea (10)
15) Mexico (10)

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1 Marloes Mar 17th, 2007 at 10:30 pm

Holland has 4 persons in top 1000. First 1 at number 102, daughter of Heineken (bier)
2 Runa Apr 18th, 2007 at 3:10 pm

I wonder how many billionaires there are in Turkey. I thought there were a lot more in Saudi Arabia. Do you know anyone of them (by name, not personally)?
3 Cengiz Moustafa Apr 30th, 2007 at 3:33 am

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4 Onur Jul 17th, 2007 at 10:15 pm

What is/are the source(s) of this article? And who are these billionaires?
5 tijned Jul 18th, 2007 at 9:39 pm

Hi, we’re happy to see that Heineken sells so much beer that a dutch lady became a billionaire. Cheers!