34 Arabs in Forbes World’s Billionaires List, and Americans dominate it

This year’s version of Forbes Magazine World’s Billionaires List is a little bit different, Bill Gates, who topped this list for the past 13 years, came third this year in the rally that included 1,125 billionaires form all over the world.

~ If you would like to use those numbers and figures on your blog/website/report please do, but please do refer to me, I spent time and made efforts to figure it out ~

The USA reserved the lion’s share with 41.69%, leaving Russia second with 7.73%.
46.4% are between 50 - 69 years old, while 0.53% are in 20’s.

But how accurate this list is? Do billionaires reveal information about their fortunes for the media? Plus it seems like this list didn’t cover kings and rulers.

34 Arabs from 5 countries came is this list:
1. Saudi 13
2. Lebanon 7
3. UAE 6
4. Egypt 4
4. Kuwait 4

Names sorted according to the rank:
19. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud - Saudi Arabia
46. Nasser Al-Kharafi & family - Kuwait
60. Naguib Sawiris - Egypt
68. Nassef Sawiris - Egypt
96. Onsi Sawiris - Egypt
97. Mohammed Al Amoudi - Saudi Arabia
100. Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair & family - United Arab Emirates
107. Sulaiman Al Rajhi - Saudi Arabia
112. Maan Al-Sanea - Saudi Arabia
194. Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber - Saudi Arabia
203. Saleh Kamel - Saudi Arabia
214. Saleh Al Rajhi - Saudi Arabia
334. Saad Hariri - Saudi Arabia
349. Abdullah Al Rajhi - Saudi Arabia
368. Majid Al Futtaim - United Arab Emirates
368. Sulaiman Algosaibi - Saudi Arabia
396. Samih Sawiris - Egypt
412. Khalid Bin Mahfouz & family - Saudi Arabia
412. Bassam Alghanim - Kuwait
412. Saif Al Ghurair & family - United Arab Emirates
412. Kutayba Alghanim - Kuwait
446. Najib Mikati - Lebanon
446. Taha Mikati - Lebanon
462. Khalaf Al Habtoor - United Arab Emirates
524. Aymin Hariri - Saudi Arabia
524. Fahd Hariri - Lebanon
573. Mohamed Al-Bahar - Kuwait
605. Abdulla Al Futtaim - United Arab Emirates
743. Mohammed Al Rajhi - Saudi Arabia
843. Nazek Hariri - Lebanon
962. Said Khoury - Lebanon
1014. Hind Hariri - Lebanon
1062. Hasib Sabbagh - Lebanon
1062. Mahdi Al-Tajir - United Arab Emirates

Top 20 countries in the list:
1. USA 469
2. Russia 87
3. Germany 59
4. India 53
5. China 42
6. Turkey 35
6. UK 35
8. Hong Kong 26
9. Canada 25
10. Japan 24
11. Brazil 18
11. Spain 18
13. Australia 14
13. France 14
15. Saudi Arabia 13
15. Italy 13
17. South Korea 12
18. Switzerland 11
19. Mexico 10
19. Sweden 10

Looking at age groups:
20’s: 0.53%
30’s: 3.82%
40’s: 17.16%
50’s: 23.20%
60’s: 23.20%
70’s: 17.60%
80’s: 9.42%
90’s: 1.60%
NA: 3.47%

You can see the full list here.

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