Mukesh Ambani earns US$31,202 every minute and is worth more than Tanzania’s GDP – plus 9 more crazy facts about Asia’s richest person
Friends with Hillary Clinton and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Indian businessman Mukesh Ambani earns 7.2 million times the average Indian and is worth US$68.4 billion – greater than the GDPs of Latvia, Botswana and Niger combined – making him the richest person all of Asia and 9th in the world
Mukesh Ambani has been India’s richest person for 12 years in a row. He’s also the richest person in all of Asia, according to both Forbes and Bloomberg. The Indian businessman, the chairman and majority shareholder of US$100 billion conglomerate Reliance Industries, is worth about US$68.4 billion, making him the ninth-richest person in the world.
Ambani’s wealth has more than doubled in the past 10 years and he grew richer in 2019 even as most of India’s richest people lost money. His fortune took a hit in the spring of 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, but his companies have since been thriving.
Here are 11 mind-blowing facts that show just how wealthy Asia’s richest man really is.
