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Official salaries for world leaders range from the modest to the outstandingly generous. Meanwhile, many premiers past and present boasted outrageous wealth before they bagged the top job, while others got very rich at their nation's expense while in office.
Read on to discover who makes the list as we countdown the peak net worth of the 40 most affluent non-royal heads of state and government chiefs ever. We've included historical leaders where reliable estimates of their fortunes exist. Where net worth figures predate 2020, we've adjusted them for inflation to give you an idea of the leader's equivalent wealth today.
All dollar values in US dollars.
Daniel Coughlin
30 January 2025
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Overseas aid budget due for a sharp review? I hate the advertisements that beg for donations when this situation is identified. Our politicians cannot negotiate Brexit so they will not want or be able to sort our part in supporting the undeserving wealthy. Does overseas aid ever get fully checked irrespective as to who is getting the money?
Well, perhaps the fools in the UK that turn on the bleeding heart stuff about Africa should tell the country to sort out their own thieves and grab back the cash they have been ripping off for years! It disgusts me that most of the list of leaders also treated their people so badly and ensured that they stayed in poverty while the leaders lived the life of some sort of royalty! Outrageous!
I am absolutely shocked to the core by this article. We should do something, and the best thing we can do is start to teach the value of democratic standards in schools, become more democratic ourselves (since the EU referendum, I have come to believe that we're actually an aristocracy - and too many people wrongly think that it's best to have "experts" overrule the popular choice), and thus lead the rest of the world by example.
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