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#1: John Fredriksen
His wealth has also recovered from the 2020 dip, returning now to 2019 levels. “From what we can see, this makes John Fredriksen the richest Norwegian ever,” said Kapital’s Vibeke Holth.
| Global ranking Name Net worth (USD) | 745 Gustav Magnar Witzøe 3.0 billion | 962 Torstein Hagen 2.4 billion | 1008 Stein Erik Hagen 2.3 billion | 1116 Caroline Hagen Kjos 2.1 billion |
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| Rank | 25 | Country/Territory | Norway | Number of billionaires | 12 | Number of billionaires per million people | 2.226 |
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Alexandra Andresen and her sister Katharina, one year her senior, each inherited 42% of the family-owned investment company Ferd . ... Ferd runs hedge funds, is an active investor on the Nordic stock exchange, and has private equity investments.
A preliminary counter on the website of the central bank, which manages the fund, rose to 5.11 trillion crowns ($828.66 billion), fractionally more than a million times Norway’s most recent official population estimate of 5,096,300. ...
Norway is currently the sixth richest country in the world when measured by GDP per capita. Norway’s GDP per capita is around $69,000, according to IMF estimates. Neighbour’s and Sweden and Denmark both make the top 20 with GDP’s of around $55,000 and $61,000 respectively.
Brazil: richest people 2021, by wealth
In 2021, Jorge Paulo Lemann was ranked by the Forbes World’s Billionaires List as the wealthiest person in Brazil.
How many billionaires are there in the world? According to Forbes’s 2021 list of billionaires, there are 2,755 billionaires worldwide. This is 660 higher than 2020’s number, with a record high of 493 new billionaires were added to the list. In addition, 86% of them are wealthier than a year ago.
USA – The country with the most billionaires
The total net worth of all the billionaires in the country is $4.4 trillion. Furthermore, Bezos sits on top of this list with a net worth of $177 billion.
Bezos , the longtime Amazon CEO and now executive chairman, has been the world’s richest for most of 2021. Bezos began the year in first place and, after briefly dropping to No. 2, he regained the No. 1 spot for about four months from mid-January until May.
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Kevin David Lehmann is the world’s youngest billionaire thanks to his 50% stake in Germany’s leading drugstore chain, dm (drogerie markt), which brings in over $12 billion in annual revenue, Forbes reported. Lehmann’s father transferred ownership of his 50% stake in dm to Kevin David in 2017.
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