Based on country of citizenship

Posted by WilliamJohnsson

50 Comments

  1. As a Russian, I’m supposed to feel proud of this, I guess. But it’s just another monument to inequality, corruption, and a failed system serving the chosen few.

  2. mrpithecanthropus on

    I’m guessing that a lot of UK billionaires head for tax havens and fall off this map.

  3. Relevant_Mobile6989 on

    149 in Russia? Well….I guess we all know how the majority get so rich there.

  4. actually, in germany we dont know exactly hoe many billionaires here are destroing ojr democracy, as we had the brilliant idea to only tax work instead of wealth. 243 is just an educated guess, but as wealth for the top 1 exploded in the ladt decade it could be higher :]

  5. Im not sure how Forbes defines billionaires but going off the logical definition (Net worth >1B) This does not seem to be very accurate. For example, Lithuania has 6 people that have over 1B euro net worth

  6. People talk about per capita but I’m curious which country is the highest compared to GDP. Greece seems high

  7. Sweden isn’t all that surprising given how many big and well-known companies they have, but then Denmark and Norway is a bit interesting they don’t have more. The biggest surprise to me is Italy having so many when their economy is like 4th-5th on the map and their population is less than the UK.

  8. Both Finland and Denmark are in a situation where most of the billionaires are due to a single company:
    Lego for Denmark, 4 members of Kirk Kristiansen family and Kone for Finland, with 4 members of the Herlin family

  9. Odd_Responsibility_5 on

    Italy having more billionaires than either France or the UK is rather surprising

  10. ChiqantiKisaal on

    Is there a generalizable reason Estonia has 2 and the two L’s don’t have any?

  11. Flat-Incident1675 on

    In Bulgaria there are at least two more (suspected) billionaires with cash money in Dubai. I wonder what’s happening with their money now 😬

  12. Far-Pain-9559 on

    A população pode achar isso bom mais bilionário mais concentração de poder e oligarquia tem o pais o interesse do bilionário não e o mesmo da classe media

  13. Apprehensive-Swim474 on

    Can we see Billionaires per capita in the region? (Asking for a friend)

  14. Really not much use unless it’s per 100,000 pop or something.
    For example on Ireland’s scale that’s like the UK or France having 169 billionaires.

    1 billionaire in Iceland is slightly higher rate that Germany for example.

  15. PositiveEagle6151 on

    According to Austrian media, Austria had around 60 USD-billionaires in 2025. Not just 9.
    The richest is, no surprise, Mark Mateschitz (heir of half of Red Bull).

    Edit: ok, if it considers citizenship, then a few (mostly German) billionaires can be deducted, but 9 still seems low

  16. WilliamJohnsson on

    Since a lot of you were asking for per capita/per million…

    |Country|Billionaires|Population|Per 1M People|
    |:-|:-|:-|:-|
    |Monaco|2|38341|52.16|
    |Liechtenstein |1|40128|24.92|
    |Cyprus|9|979865|9.18|
    |Sweden|54|10587710|5.10|
    |Switzerland|43|9005582|4.77|
    |Norway|18|5590000|3.22|
    |Germany|212|83577140|2.54|
    |Iceland|1|398266|2.51|
    |Ireland|13|5439898|2.39|
    |Greece|21|10409547|2.02|
    |Belgium|18|11900123|1.51|
    |Luxembourg|1|681973|1.47|
    |Estonia|2|1369995|1.46|
    |Italy|86|58934177|1.46|
    |Denmark|8|5992734|1.33|
    |Finland|7|5635971|1.24|
    |Czech Republic|12|10909500|1.10|
    |Russia|149|146150789|1.02|
    |Austria|9|9197213|0.98|
    |Spain|45|49077984|0.92|
    |United Kingdom |55|68265209|0.81|
    |France|54|68635943|0.79|
    |Netherlands|13|18044027|0.72|
    |Hungary|6|9539502|0.63|
    |Turkey|40|85664944|0.47|
    |Albania|1|2360000|0.42|
    |Slovakia|2|5419451|0.37|
    |Poland|12|36497495|0.33|
    |Romania|6|19036031|0.32|
    |Bulgaria|2|6437360|0.31|
    |Croatia|1|3874350|0.26|
    |Ukraine|7|37860000|0.18|
    |Portugal|1|10749635|0.09|

  17. This map could be titled: Ability to resist Russian pressure on a scale from 0 to 200+.
    0= totally malleable

  18. Tasty-Neighborhood25 on

    Greece for its population, size and for recent financial events is surprising to me. Didn’t expect them to have 21 billionaires with a 10 million population

  19. _Pixelmancer on

    Serbias president recently had a party commemorating his second billion (allegedly). Of course officially nobody knows how much hes worth since all his income is illegal

  20. PruritoIntimo on

    is this map counting also the Euro billionaires? and, what about the Pound Sterling Billionaires?

  21. Imagine being the only billionaire in Liechtenstein or Luxembourg. So lonely, so sad 🙁

  22. DharmaLeader on

    Ah, us Greeks and our huge corruption. A system that benefits a handful. Or two handfuls according to the map.

  23. Beneficial_Trick6672 on

    France with its huge population, huge GDP and long history is surprisingly weak. 30% higher than russia and 30% lower than germany GDP.