List of countries by the number of US dollar billionaires

World wide top 10 (2011)

Rank	Country/Region	Number of billionaires[1]	Share of world total (%)	Category
—	World total	1210	100.0
1	United States	412	34.0	American billionaires
2	People's Republic of China	128	9.5	Chinese billionaires
3	Russia	101	8.3	Russian billionaires
4	India	55	4.5	Indian billionaires
5	Germany	52	4.3	German billionaires
6	Turkey	38	3.1	Turkish billionaires
7	Hong Kong	36	3.0	Hong Kong billionaires
8	United Kingdom	33	2.7	British billionaires
9	Brazil	30	2.5	Brazilian billionaires
10	Japan	26	2.1	Japanese billionaires

Africa

Total = 8

Rank	Nation	Number of billionaires[1]	Notes
1	Egypt	4
1	South Africa	3
3	Nigeria	1

Asia

Total = 252

Rank	Nation/Region	Number of billionaires[1]	Notes
1	People's Republic of China	128[2]
2	India	69[3]
3	Hong Kong	25
4	Japan	22
4	Indonesia	22[4]
6	Republic of China (Taiwan)	18
7	South Korea	11
8	Saudi Arabia	10
9	Israel	10
10	Malaysia	9
11	Kazakhstan	5
12	Philippines	5[5]
13	Lebanon	4
14	Singapore	4
15	United Arab Emirates	4
16	Thailand	3
17	Kuwait	1
18	Pakistan	1[6][7]

Europe

Total = 266

Rank	Nation	Number of billionaires[1]	Notes
1	Russia	62
2	Germany	53
3	Turkey	38
4	United Kingdom	29
5	Italy	13
5	Spain	13
7	France	12
8	Switzerland	11
9	Sweden	10
10	Ireland	6
11	Ukraine	5
12	Netherlands	5
13	Austria	4
13	Norway	4
13	Poland	4
16	Czech Republic	3
16	Denmark	3
16	Romania	3
19	Portugal	2
19	Greece	2
21	Monaco	1

North America

Total = 436

Rank	Nation	Number of billionaires[1]	Notes
1	United States	403
2	Canada	24

Oceania

Total = 14

Rank	Nation	Number of billionaires[1]	Notes
1	Australia	11
2	New Zealand	3

Latin America

Total = 51

Rank	Per capita rank	Nation	Number of billionaires[1]	Billionaires per 10M
1	2	Brazil	30	0.9
2	3	Mexico	11	0.8
3	1	Chile	4	2.4
4	5	Colombia	2	0.5
4	4	Venezuela	2	0.7
4	6	Argentina	2	0.2

See also

• Forbes list of billionaires
• Lists of billionaires
• List of non-Forbes billionaires
• List of countries by number of millionaires

Courtesy:wikipedia