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The richest world leaders today

The powerful and wealthy
Volodymyr Zelensky (Ukraine) – $1.5 million (£1.2m)
Nicolás Maduro (Venezuela) – $2 million (£1.5m)
Prayuth Chan-Ocha (Thailand) – $3.1 million (£2.4m)
Boris Johnson (UK) – $5.2 million (£4m)
Shinzo Abe (Japan) – $10 million (£7.7m)
Angela Merkel (Germany) – $11 million (£8.5m)
Justin Trudeau (Canada) – $13 million (£10m)
Benjamin Netanyahu (Israel) – $14.4 million (£11m)
Narendra Modi (India) – $25 million (£19.2m)
Emmanuel Macron (France) – $31.5 million (£28.4m)
Idriss Déby (Chad) – $50 million (£38.4m)
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (Turkey) – $50 million (£38.4m)
Lee Hsien Loong (Singapore) – $51 million (£39m)
Paul Kagame (Rwanda) – $500 million (£384m)
Uhuru Kenyatta (Kenya) – $500 million (£384m)
Ilham Aliyev (Azerbaijan)– $500 million (£384m)
Cyril Ramaphosa (South Africa) – $550 million (£422m)
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (Equitorial Guinea) – $600 million (£462m)
Ali Bongo Ondimba (Gabon) – $1 billion (£768m)
Bashar al-Assad (Syria) – $1.2 billion (£920m)
Xi Jinping (China) – $1.5 billion (£1.2bn)
Sebastian Pinera (Chile) – $2.8 billion (£2.1bn)
Donald Trump (US) – $3.1 billion (£2.4bn)
Andrej Babiš (Czech Republic) – $3.7 billion (£2.8bn)
Kim Jong-un (North Korea) – $5 billion (£3.8bn)
Mahathir Mohamad (Malaysia) – $45 billion (£35bn)
Vladimir Putin (Russia) – $200 billion (£153.6bn)
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The powerful and wealthy

As well as wielding immense amounts of political power, many world leaders are also extremely wealthy. But this list of richest leaders doesn't just feature the presidents and prime ministers of the world's wealthiest countries, but also includes heads of the world's poorest nations. From India's Narendra Modi to Russia's Vladimir Putin, click or scroll through to find out the world's richest leaders ranked by their wealth. Figures in US dollars unless stated.

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29 January 2020

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