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The database includes the richest families in the world as well as the largest family businesses.

For each country in the world, research was conducted on the leading entrepreneurial families. The search was limited not only to the current entrepreneurs, but also to families of the 18./19. Century. The data includes both current and historical data.

From these basic data, the 11,000 families with assets> $ 350 million were filtered out and categorized into different categories in Excel.

How did Netstudies determine the data?

For 3,200 families, the family offices have already been identified.

Here are some thousand examples of rich families and entrepreneurial elites in the countries of the world

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Family

Owner family, main owner

Only whole families are detected, several billionaires from one family are included in one entry.

Company

Main company on which the wealth is based.

Industry

Selection possible for 36 industries
Selection possible for 335 sub-industries

Listed / private companies

3 categories:

“Listed”

“Private”

“Sold” = Main Company was sold

Family business

3 categories:

“Family” = The company is controlled by the person / family.

“x” = less than 32% (listed) or less than 50% (unlisted)

“Year” = year of sale of the main enterprise.

Company with more than 2bn $ sales

All still family-controlled companies with> $ 2 billion in sales

Founding year

Year of foundation of the enterprise or entrepreneurial activity

Founding period (Decades)

Classification of the foundation years after decades (P1970 = 1970-1989, P1960 = 1960-1969)

Foundation-owned companies / Charity

Categories:

Foundation-owned

CHARITY: Assets of $ 100 million or more were donated or put into a
nonprofit foundation):

“Donation> $ 100 Million”,

“Donation> 1bn $”

“Giving Pledge”

Country

Main nationality of the family.

For example the families Rausing and Kamprad are classified as Swedes, even if they have moved abroad or the corporations have relocated their headquarters abroad.

Region

Africa, MENA, Western Europe, Northern Europe, Eastern Europe, South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, Oceania, North America, Middle America, South America

Short profile

Business activities (including sales, if available), shareholdings, other large assets, foundations (with asset information)

Wealth

Assets (in millions of dollars)
Current asset estimates from all available rankings (2019). This can be used to create a global wealth ranking. Figures in local currencies have been converted to $, so often odd numbers are available. Older assets are also recorded, but not taken into account for the ranking.

Religion

Mainly (minority) religions are recorded in some countries: e.g. Muslims, Jews, Mormons, Parsi, Ismailis etc.

Immigration

Worldwide, the countries of origin were registered by immigrant entrepreneurs.

Did the families immigrate and from which country?
Options: Overview of Overseas Chinese or Overseas Indians; shares of Chinese entrepreneurs in Southeast Asian
Countries etc.)

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