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World Top 10 Billionaires Richer Than Combined GDPs of Kenya, Ghana, Ethiopia, 14 other African Countries
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The world’s top 10 billionaires have more money than the combined Gross Domestic Products (GDPs) of 17 African countries.
- Forbes real-time billionaires’ list, revealed that the world’s top 10 billionaires have a combined net worth of $1, 370.1 trillion.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that report from Forbes real-time billionaires’ list as at the time of filing this report, the world’s top 10 billionaires could boast of a combined net worth of $1, 370.1 trillion.
Their wealth put together is more than $1.071 trillion which is the combined GDPs of the 17 African countries highlighted in this article.
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This notwithstanding, one thing that is similar to them all is that fact that billionaires’ net Worth’s are never constant. Instead, they change due to fluctuations in asset values and other factors.
It is important to note that the 17 African countries that are highlighted are among the top 20 African countries with the highest GDPs in 2021, according to Statista.
From this top African nations, we excluded the first three countries which are Nigeria (with a GDP of $514.05 billion), Egypt ($394.28 billion) and South Africa ($329.53 billion).
Top 10 billionaires in the world
Below are the net worths of the top 10 billionaires in the world according to Forbes real-time billionaires’ list. Again, this list may have changed by the time you are reading this article.
- Elon Musk: $242.4 billion
- Bernard Arnault: $184 billion
- Jeff Bezos: $181.1 billion
- Bill Gates: $130.3 billion
- Larry Page: $115 billion
- Warren Buffett: $113.8 billion
- Sergey Brin: $110.7 billion
- Larry Ellison: $108 billion
- Steve Ballmer: $94.4 billion
- Mukesh Ambani: $90.4 billion
African countries with the highest GDPs in 2021, excluding Nigeria, Egypt and South Africa
- Algeria: $151.46 billion
- Morocco: $124 billion
- Kenya: $106.04 billion
- Ethiopia: $93.97 billion
- Ghana: $74.26 billion
- Ivory Coast: $70.99 billion
- Angola: 66.49 billion
- Tanzania: $65.92 billion
- Democratic Republic of Congo: $55.09 billion
- Cameroon: $44.89 billion
- Tunisia: $44.27
- Uganda: $41.27 billion
- Sudan: $35.83 billion
- Senegal: $27.93 billion
- Zimbabwe: $26.09 billion
- Libya: $24.27 billion
- Zambia: $18.95 billion
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