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The richest world leaders ever, ranked

The wealthiest ever non-royal heads of state and government chiefs
Napoléon Bonaparte: $400 million
Uhuru Kenyatta: $500 million
George Washington: $553 million
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo: $764 million
Nursultan Nazarbayev: $1 billion
Islam Karimov: $1 billion
Fidel Castro: $1.15 billion
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby: $1.3 billion
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani: $1.4 billion
Robert Mugabe: $1.45 billion
Bashar Al-Assad: $1.5 billion
Ali Bongo Ondimba: $2 billion
Wen Jiabao: $2.7 billion
Saddam Hussein: $2.8 billion
Sebastian Piñera: $2.8 billion
Daniel Arap Moi: $3 billion
Ilham Aliyev: $3 billion
Francisco Franco: up to $3.8 billion
Kim Jong-il: $4 billion
Donald Trump: $4.5 billion
Kim Jong-un: $5 billion
Sani Abacha: $6.3 billion
Adolf Hitler: $6.5 billion
Silvio Berlusconi: $9 billion
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali: $10 billion
Mobutu Sese Seko: $12 billion
José Eduardo dos Santos: $20 billion
Ibrahim Babangida: $22.7 billion
Mahathir Mohamad: $45 billion
Ferdinand Marcos: $53.1 billion
Suharto: up to $55 billion
Ali Abdullah Saleh: up to $64 billion
Hosni Mubarak: $70 billion
Vladimir Putin: up to $200 billion
Muammar Gaddafi: $200 billion
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The wealthiest ever non-royal heads of state and government chiefs

Official salaries for world leaders range from the modest to the outstandingly generous. Yet numerous premiers past and present boasted outrageous wealth before they bagged the top job, while others got very rich at their nation's expense during their time in office. We reveal the peak net worths of the most affluent non-royal heads of state and government chiefs ever, adjusted for inflation. Click or scroll through to find out who they are.
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Daniel Coughlin

10 August 2021

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