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 $92.3 billion.

NET WORTH LEADERS BY CONTINENT

Today’s graphic comes to us from HowMuch.net and it shows the richest person on each continent based on data from October 30th, 2017. It’s worth noting that these values are slightly different than the updated “real-time” number provided by Forbes for Jeff Bezos in the link above.

Here is the full breakdown by continent:

Person Continent Net Worth Source of Wealth Jeff Bezos North America $97.7B Technology Jorge Paulo Leman South America $30.4B Food and beverage Amancio Ortega Europe $80.1B Fashion, real estate, investing Aliko Dangote Africa $13.1B Cement, sugar, flour, salt Wang Jianlin Asia $25.1B Entertainment, real estate Gina Rinehart Oceania $16.6B Mining

Net worth figures from HowMuch.net as of October 30, 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 Arctic cruises on a regular basis.