MANILA, Philippines — Real estate and retail tycoon Manuel Villar, chairman of the Villar Group, remains the country's richest man, according to the Forbes 2023 World's Billionaires list.
Sisters Teresita and Elizabeth Sy are not just heiresses of the empire started by their late father, Henry Sy. With their brothers Henry Jr., Hans, Herbert, and Harley, the siblings have a combined net worth of $12.6 billion. This makes them number one on the list of the Philippines' richest.
According to a 'Forbes' ranking, LVMH boss Bernard Arnault and L'Oréal heiress Françoise Bettencourt Meyers are the richest people in the world.
MANILA, Philippines — Real estate and retail tycoon Manuel Villar, chairman of the Villar Group, remains the country's richest man, according to the Forbes 2023 World's Billionaires list.
Camille Villar is the youngest and only daughter of former Senate President Manuel “Manny” Villar and Senator Cynthia Villar. Manny Villar ranks as the second richest in the Philippines, with a net worth of $7.8 billion grown primarily from his real-estate business.
Here is the full ranking of the richest countries in 2023, according to their per capita GDP. Luxembourg, one of the smallest countries in the EU has a population of 634,000 and is the richest country in this ranking with a per capita GDP of nearly $130,000.
Forbes' real-time data shows that as of June 2023, there are 47 Australian billionaires on the list of the world's richest people.
Many were instrumental in history and society such as the Cojuangcos, Lichaucos, Syquias, Paternos, Lopezes, and the Ongpins. These families settled in old Binondo and Santa Cruz in Manila, and went on to become some of the most powerful in pre-war Manila.
According to the blog, the highest-earning YouTube channel in the Philippines is Raffy Tulfo in Action, which they estimated has earned $26,365,433 since the channel was opened on April 20, 2016.
Marife Zamora is one of the country's most influential women and is recognized as the top female executive who shattered the proverbial glass. In corporate worlds, women are often kept from advancing their careers but Marife Zamora broke the record.
Gina Rinehart: $43.17 billion
With a net worth of an excruciating $43 billion, Rinehart is not only the richest woman in Australia - by a large margin - she is also the eighth-richest woman in the world and among the wealthiest humans alive.
Francoise Bettencourt Meyers of France is the richest woman in the world, ranked No. 9 on Forbes' list of billionaires.
Billionaire, businessman and the chairman and chief executive of LVMH (LVMUY), Bernard Arnault holds the crown as the richest person in the world. According to Forbes, Arnault has a fortune of $234.5 billion.
The ruling billionaire family in the Philippines is the Sy family. The late Henry Sy Senior – the richest person in the country for 11 consecutive years in 2018 at US$18.3 billion – left his fortune to his six children.
Walton Family
The Walton family knows its way around some retail revenue. Its namesake, mega-retailer Walmart, has an estimated global revenue of $611.3 billion. As the family owns nearly half of the company, they should be quite comfortable for generations to come.