Fertiliser prices were also high last year. Andrei Melnichenko, who made a fortune in fertilisers, was listed as Russia's richest man by Forbes with an estimated worth of $25.2 billion, more than double what he was estimated to be worth last year.
As of April 23, 2023, Andrey Melnichenko was the wealthiest person in Russia, with an estimated net worth of 25.2 billion U.S. dollars, followed by Vladimir Potanin (No. 2, $23.7 billion), Vladimir Lisin (No. 3, $22.1 billion); and Leonid Mikhelson (No. 4, $21.6 billion).
Personal wealth
In 2020, Forbes announced that Baturina's position as the richest woman in Russia was overtaken by Tatyana Bakalchuk, the founder of Wildberries, with a net worth of $1.4 billion.
The United States of America is home to 735 billionaires
The Forbes 2023 rich list reveals that 2,640 billionaires of the world hail from 77 countries or territories. The country with the highest number of billionaires is, unsurprisingly, the US.
Forbes' real-time data shows that as of May 2023, there are 40 Australian billionaires on the list of the world's richest people.
Gina Rinehart
Gina Rinehart has kept the top spot on the rich list once again. The mining magnate has an estimated $37.1 billion. Her wealth derives from the privately owned mining company Hancock Prospecting, founded by her father Lang Hancock.
He became Russia's youngest billionaire at the age of 32. Shamalov is a director and part-owner of Sibur, a Russian petrochemicals company. Shamalov's 21% stake in the company is reportedly worth $2 billion.
Andrei Melnichenko, who made a fortune in fertilisers, was listed as Russia's richest man by Forbes with an estimated worth of $25.2 billion, more than double what he was estimated to be worth last year.
Russia's youngest billionaire, Kirill Shamalov is the son of Rossiya Bank shareholder Nikolai Shamalov, a longtime friend of Putin.
It has enormous natural resources, particularly oil and natural gas. It is the world's eleventh-largest economy by nominal GDP, and the sixth-largest by purchasing power parity (PPP). Due to a volatile currency exchange rate, Russia's GDP as measured in dollars fluctuates sharply.
So, who is the richest family in the world? The title currently goes to the Walton family with a net worth of $224.5 billion. Keep reading to find out what other families made the list of the top 10 richest families in the world.
Rublevka or Rublyovka (Russian: Рублёвка) is the unofficial name of a prestigious residential area in the western suburbs of Moscow, Russia, located along Rublyovo-Uspenskoye Highway, Podushkinskoe, 1st Uspenskoe and 2nd Uspenskoe highways.
New York City
The Big Apple is home to 340,000 millionaires, 724 centi-millionaires, and 58 billionaires. It is the financial center of the USA and the wealthiest city in the world by several measures. It is also home to the world's two largest stock exchanges by market cap (the NYSE and the Nasdaq).
"By 2003, Khodorkovsky was the richest man in Russia, and potentially on his way to becoming the richest man in the world. In 2004, Forbes placed him 16th on its list of the world's wealthiest people, with a fortune estimated at $16 billion."
Alisher Burkhanovich Usmanov (Uzbek: Alisher Usmonov, Russian: Алишер Бурханович Усманов; born 9 September 1953) is an Uzbek–Russian businessman and oligarch. By 2022, Usmanov had an estimated net worth of $19.5 billion and was among the world's 100 wealthiest people.
Russia Annual Household Income per Capita reached 7,932.623 USD in Dec 2022, compared with the previous value of 6,561.323 USD in Dec 2021. Russia Annual Household Income per Capita data is updated yearly, available from Dec 1992 to Dec 2022, with an averaged value of 5,523.525 USD.
Over 74.5 million Russians aged 20 years and above, or approximately two thirds of the total adult population of the country, had wealth under 10 thousand U.S. dollars in 2021. To compare, on average around the globe, the share of residents belonging to this wealth range was measured at 53 percent in the same year.
The most influential oligarchs from the Yeltsin era include Roman Abramovich, Boris Berezovsky, Vladimir Gusinsky, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Vladimir Potanin, Alexander Smolensky and Vladimir Vinogradov.
Australia is a highly developed country with a mixed economy. As of 2023, Australia was the 13th-largest national economy by nominal GDP (gross domestic product), the 19th-largest by PPP-adjusted GDP, and was the 22nd-largest goods exporter and 24th-largest goods importer.
In terms of mean wealth, the average Australian adult had US$550,110 in 2021 after seeing an annual increase of US$66,350 in their net worth. This put Australia at number four in the world, after Switzerland, the United States and Hong Kong.
Australia has plentiful supplies of natural resources, including the second largest accessible reserves of iron ore in the world, the fifth largest reserves of coal and significant gas resources. For a long time, commodities have made up a sizeable share of our exports.