Sebastián Piñera
Estimated net worth
$2.8 billion
Chile’s two-time president, who built a fortune in credit cards and airlines decades before he entered politics, and died in 2024.
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Presidents, prime ministers and heads of government ranked by net worth. Many of these figures are outside estimates rather than disclosed assets, and every profile says so.
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Top 10 Richest Presidents in the World
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Saddam Hussein
Estimated net worth
$2 billion
Iraq’s president from 1979 until his overthrow in 2003, estimated at $2 billion at his peak, much of it held as looted cash.
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Nawaz Sharif
Estimated net worth
$1.8 billion
Pakistan’s longest-serving prime minister, whose family steel and sugar empire underpins a fortune of roughly $1.8 billion.
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Mojtaba Khamenei
Estimated net worth
$3 billion
Iran’s third supreme leader since March 2026, linked by investigators to an overseas property network valued in the billions.
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Meles Zenawi
Estimated net worth
$3 billion
Ethiopia’s prime minister from 1995 until his death in 2012, credited with fast growth at home and an estimated $3 billion abroad.
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Kim Jong-un
Estimated net worth
$5 billion
North Korea’s supreme leader since 2011, linked by a 2013 joint investigation to roughly $5 billion in overseas accounts and property.
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Kim Jong-il
Estimated net worth
$4 billion
North Korea’s second supreme leader, in power from 1994 to 2011, estimated at $4 billion at his death, with 20 to 30 homes reported.
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Donald Trump
Estimated net worth
$7.6 billion
The 45th and 47th US president spent decades in Manhattan property before a Trump Media stake made him a billionaire several times over.
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Alexander Lukashenko
Estimated net worth
$10 billion
Belarus’s president since 1994, named in leaked US cables as the country’s richest citizen, though he denies holding any fortune at all.
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Vladimir Putin
Estimated net worth
$70 billion
Russia’s president since 2000, listed by CelebrityNetWorth at $70 billion, a figure based on unverified claims rather than disclosed assets.
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