Distribution of Billionaires by Country

February 4, 2011 7 Comments


According to Forbes there are 1011 billionaires in the world.The following table shows the top 10 countries by the number of billionaires.China has about a quarter of the number of billionaires compared to the US and India at third place has a little more than half the number of billionaires found in China.

Rank Country Number of billionaires
1  United States 403
2  China 128
3  India 69
4  Russia 62
5  Germany 53
6  United Kingdom 29
7  Turkey 28
8  Hong Kong SAR, China 25
9  Canada 24
10  Japan 22
10  Indonesia 22

The table below ranks Asian countries on the basis of the number of billionaires.

Rank Nation/Region Number of billionaires
1  China 128
2  India 69
3  Hong Kong SAR, China 25
4  Japan 22
4  Indonesia 22
6  Taiwan 18
7  South Korea 11
8  Saudi Arabia 10
9  Israel 10
10  Malaysia 9
11  Kazakhstan 5
12  Philippines 5
13  Lebanon 4
14  Singapore 4
15  United Arab Emirates 4
16  Thailand 3
17  Kuwait 1
18  Pakistan 1

If we add the Chinese and HK numbers,China truly has beaten India hands down.The only twist in the tale is that India remains home to the region’s wealthiest individuals. Ten of Asia’s top 25 billionaires are from India.The wealthiest 100 Indians are collectively worth $276 billion, while their top 100 Chinese counterparts are worth $170 billion. (Put another way, the three wealthiest Indians have more cash than the top 24 Chinese.)

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India’s 100 Wealthiest

January 30, 2011 2 Comments


Rank
 Name Net Worth ($mil)
1 Mukesh Ambani 27,000
2 Lakshmi Mittal 26,100
3 Azim Premji 17,600
4 Shashi & Ravi Ruia 15,000
5 Savitri Jindal 14,400
6 Anil Ambani 13,300
7 Gautam Adani 10,700
8 Kushal Pal Singh 9,200
9 Sunil Mittal 8,600
10 Kumar Birla 8,500
11 Adi Godrej 7,500
12 Pallonji Mistry 6,900
13 Anil Agarwal 5,500
14 Dilip Shanghvi 5,200
15 Shiv Nadar 4,700
16 Malvinder & Shivinder Singh 4,200
17 Kalanithi Maran 4,000
18 G.M. Rao 3,500
19 Uday Kotak 3,400
20 Anand Burman 3,200
21 Indu Jain 3,100
22 Rahul Bajaj 3,000
23 Subhash Chandra 2,900
24 Micky Jagtiani 2,800
25 Venugopal Dhoot 2,650
26 Rajan Raheja 2,600
27 Sudhir & Samir Mehta 2,500
28 Gautam Thapar 2,400
29 Madhusudan Rao 2,300
30 Pankaj Patel 2,050
31 Cyrus Poonawalla 2,000
32 Yusuf Hamied 1,950
33 N.R. Narayana Murthy 1,900
34 Ramesh Chandra 1,860
35 Desh Bandhu Gupta 1,850
36 Chandru Raheja 1,800
37 Ajay Piramal 1,750
38 Baba Kalyani 1,720
39 Brijmohan Lall Munjal 1,710
40 Niranjan Hiranandani 1,700
41 Nandan Nilekani 1,600
42 Shyam & Hari Bhartia 1,550
43 Senapathy Gopalakrishnan 1,500
44 Vijay Mallya 1,450
45 Rama Prasad Goenka 1,410
46 Mangal Prabhat Lodha 1,400
46 Vikas Oberoi 1,400
48 Jaiprakash Gaur 1,350
49 K Anji Reddy 1,290
50 Keshub Mahindra 1,280
51 Anu Aga 1,240
52 Naresh Goyal 1,200
53 Anand Jain 1,190
54 Vinod Goenka 1,180
55 Virendra Mhaiskar 1,170
56 Brij Bhushan Singal 1,160
57 Rakesh Jhunjhunwala 1,150
58 Murugappa Family 1,140
59 B G Raghupathy 1,130
60 Murali Divi 1,120
61 Harsh Mariwala 1,110
62 Balvant Parekh 1,100
63 K Dinesh 1,090
64 G. V. Krishna Reddy 1,080
65 Bhupendra Kumar Modi 1,070
66 Shahid Balwa 1,060
67 Mofatraj Munot 1,050
68 Ashwin Dani 1,030
69 Tulsi Tanti 1,000
70 Benu Gopal Bangur 980
71 S.D. Shibulal 925
72 Kishore Biyani 912
73 Ashwin Choksi 910
74 Manoj Tirodkar 905
75 Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw 900
76 Shobhana Bhartia 895
77 Rakesh Wadhawan 875
78 Abhay Vakil 870
79 Hemendra Kothari 860
80 Ramesh Agarwal 795
81 Gracias Saldanha 790
82 Analjit Singh 735
83 Prathap Reddy 685
84 Balkrishan Goenka 660
85 Shishir Bajaj 655
86 Kapil & Dheeraj Wadhawan 650
87 Jignesh Shah 610
88 Prithvi Raj Singh Oberoi 605
89 Bhavarlal Jain 603
90 Hemant Shah 580
91 Karsanbhai Patel 575
92 Qimat Rai Gupta 550
93 Kamal Khetan 546
94 Ashok Sarin 545
95 Shantanu Prakash 538
96 Atul Ruia 536
97 P.V.Ramaprasad Reddy 535
98 Bhadresh Shah 526
99 Bharat & Ravi Sheth 501
100 Rajju Shroff 500

This is the Forbes List of the 100 Richest Indians.The Forbes list of the World’s Richest is so well known but not this list ;so I thought of putting it up here. These  people share a common background with us.They have faced and overcome challenges many of us can personally identify with. They skilfully seize opportunities that we too could potentially capitalize on. So why not learn from them? To this effect I am on the look out for authentic material and first hand reports on these people.I’ll put them up on this blog as I find them.

A quick glance throught the list throws up some surprises:No Tatas , Wadias etc.:Some old and prestigious names are missing.There are only 5 women in the list.Ther are a total of 69 billionaires in the list.The top ten account for nearly 50% wealth of the top 100. The combined fortune of India’s 100 richest people was $300 billion.Incidentally the wealth of the top ten in the list equals 12% of India’s GDP.

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