The Richest Person on Each Continent

The Richest Person on Each Continent

With a stock price surge of 13% after Amazon’s most recent quarterly filing, Wall Street analysts were reportedly “shocked” by the company’s rapid growth. The e-commerce juggernaut beat both quarterly revenue and earnings forecasts, and continues to trailblaze with a 34% revenue growth rate.

This boded well for the net worth of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, which fluctuates wildly based on Amazon stock price movements. In fact, the recent jump in price on October 27 helped catapult him past Bill Gates (again) to become the richest person in North America, as well as the entire world.

As of publication time, according to Forbes’ real-time wealth tracker, his wealth stands at $92.6 billion.

Net Worth Leaders by Continent

Today’s graphic comes to us from HowMuch.net and it shows the richest person on each continent.

Here is the full breakdown:

Person	Continent	Net Worth	Source of Wealth
Jeff Bezos	North America	$92.6B	Technology
Jorge Paulo Leman	South America	$30.8B	Food and beverage
Amancio Ortega	Europe	$77.8B	Fashion, real estate, investing
Aliko Dangote	Africa	$13.7B	Cement, sugar, flour, salt
Mukesh Ambani	Asia	$41.9B	Oil an gas
Gina Rinehart	Oceania	$16.6B	Mining

Net worth figures from HowMuch.net as of November 3, 2017

To be thorough, HowMuch.net also “nominated” a person to represent the continent of Antarctica, even though it has no permanent residents.

Chosen for this title? It’s none other than Arnold W. Donald, the CEO of Carnival, the world’s largest cruise company, which monetizes the icy continent for its Antarctic cruises on a regular basis.

This graphic has been amended since initial publication. Just yesterday, Mukesh Ambani climbed up the list to become the richest person in Asia, and it now reflects that. Thanks to everyone who pointed this out.