In 2018, there were seven dollar billionaires in Ukraine.
This is evidenced by the list of billionaires published on the areppim portal.
The list was developed by two experts - father and son Casais, who worked in Portugal, Switzerland and Belgium.
According to the rating, Rinat Akhmetov remains the richest Ukrainian. Owing the capital of USD 5.5 billion, he occupies the 334th place of the rating.
He is followed by businessman Kostyantyn Zhevago - USD 1.6 billion (1477th place) and Yuriy Kosiuk - USD 1.5 billion (1561st place) by a wide margin.
The fourth place was taken by Viktor Pinchuk - USD 1.4 billion (1650th place). The fifth place is occupied by Gennadiy Bogolyubov - $1.2 billion (1867th place).
Ihor Kolomoyskyi and Vadym Novynskyi close the list of Ukrainian dollar billionaires. With a capital of $1 billion, they share the 2124th place of the rating.
There are 2153 billionaires in the world today. All of them own a fortune of USD 8.7 billion in 2019.
Most billionaires reside in the United States. The richest people in the world, according to the rating include Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Mark Zuckerberg.
As reported "Apostrophe. Economy" reported earlier, the wealth of the American businessman Elon Musk decreased to USD 1.1 billion, after the fall of stocks at the at auction on Thursday, April 4 of the electric car manufacturer Tesla Inc. headed by Musk.