Saudi Arabia tops the Forbes list for the Arab wealthy 2025

Forbes Magazine announced yesterday the list of the world billionaires for the year 2025, which first included 3028 billionaires.

According to the analysis of “Al -Masry Al -Youm” data, the increase represented 9% in the number of billionaires, represented by 247 rich wealth, whose wealth amounted to $ 16 trillion, an increase of trillion dollars from last year, which prompted the “Data Press and Information Auditing” section of “Al -Masry Al -Youm” to analyze the Forbes list on the Arab wealthy for the year 2025, based on the magazine report.

38 Arab rich

The magazine report revealed the presence of 38 Arab rich in the Middle East and Africa for the year 2025, or 1.25% of the total world’s wealthy people this year, according to the analysis of Al -Masry today’s data, whose wealth amounted to 128.4 billion dollars.

The analysis process showed the participation of 15 billionaires in the list of the richest Arab from “Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon” with the relationship of kinship “brotherhood” by 5 wealthy people in each country.

Saudi Rimontada

5 Arab countries participated in the list of the top ten of the Arab wealthy Arabs for this year with a score of 76.4 billion dollars through 11 billionaires, namely «Saudi Arabia, Emirates, Egypt, Lebanon, and Qatar», with 67.6% of the total participation of the five countries in the Forbes list this year.

Saudi Arabia acquired for the first time in 7 years on the lion’s share in terms of the number of wealthy people and their wealth by 48.4% through 15 billionaires, including 14 on the list of wealthy for the first time and their wealth reached 55.8 billion dollars (an increase of 7 million dollars from the UAE that topped the list last year).

Saudi Arabia also took control of 50% of the top ten of the Arab wealthy Arabs for this year with 5 billionaires whose wealth amounted to 38.4 billion dollars, or 50.3% of the total wealth of Arab billionaires this year.

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud recovered his position again with a score of $ 16.5 billion through his investments by 21.6% of the total wealth of the top ten of the Arab wealthy to become the first Arab and the 128th ranking globally.

Followed by Suleiman Al -Habib, founder and chairman of the Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Group for Medical Services in Saudi Arabia, with a score of 10.9 billion dollars through his hospital group by 14.3% of the total wealth of the top ten of the Arab wealthy to become the second in the Arab world and ranking No. 227 globally.

Then the brothers, Imad, Issam, and Suleiman Al -Muhaidib, in order with a balance of 11 billion dollars through the Al -Muhaidib Investment Group, with 14.4% of the total wealth of the first ten of the wealthy Arabs, to become in the ninth and tenth Arab places.

While 10 others participated in the list of the wealthy Arabs in general, namely “Muhammad Abunian, Abdullah Al -Othaim, Abdullah bin Suleiman Al -Rajhi, Abdullah Amer Al -Nahdi, Walid bin Ibrahim Al Ibrahim, Khaled Abdul Rahman Saleh Al -Rajhi, Youssef Muhammad Jamjoom, Hamad Ali Al -Saqri, Ammar Suleiman Fakih, Mazen Suleiman Fakih” whose wealth amounted to $ 17.4 billion.

The UAE accounts for 18.9% of the wealth of the Arab rich

The UAE came in second place; As a result of its acquisition of 18.9% of the wealth of the Arab billionaires through 5 wealthy people, or 16.1% of the wealthy Arabs, their wealth amounted to 24.3 billion dollars.

The UAE acquired 25.5% of the wealth of the top ten of the Arab wealthy people for this year, which amounted to 19.5 billion dollars through 3 wealthy people, or 27.3% of the top ten of the Arab wealthy.

Hussein Sajani, the founder of Damac Real Estate, came in first place as an Emirati richest with $ 10.2 billion through his real estate company, by 13.4% of the total wealth of the first ten of the Arab wealthy, to become the third in the Arab world and the 264 ranking globally.

Followed by Abdullah Al -Futtaim and the Family, the founder of the Al -Futtaim Group, which is an exclusive distributor for Toyota cars in the Emirates since 1955, with $ 4.7 billion through car and investment agents, with 6.2% of the total wealth of the top ten of the Arab wealthy to become the sixth Arab and the ranking No. 767 globally.

Abdullah bin Ahmed Al Ghurair and the family, founder of Al -Mashreq Bank, came in third with $ 4.6 billion, with 6% of the total wealth of the top ten of the wealthy Arabs, to become the seventh Arab and the ranking No. 789 globally.

While Hussein bin Ghati Al -Jubouri, founder and chairman of the Ben Ghati Real Estate Development Company, and Mohammed Al -Abbar, the founder of Emaar Real Estate Company, participated in the order in the list of the wealthy Arabs in general, whose total wealth amounted to $ 4.8 billion, in addition to Pavel Dorov, founder of Telegram, who holds the UAE and French nationalities, whose wealth reached 17.1 billion dollars; To become its global ranking No. 118.

Egypt acquires 16% of the wealth of the Arab rich

Egypt came in third place; As a result of its acquisition of 16% of the wealth of the Arabs through 5 wealthy people, their wealth amounted to 20.6 billion dollars.

Egypt acquired 19% of the wealth of the top ten of the Arab wealthy Arabs for this year, which amounted to 14.6 billion dollars through the two brothers Nassef and Najib Sawiris to become the fourth and fifth in the Arab world, respectively, and ranking No. 289, and 717 globally.

While the brothers, Muhammad, Youssef and Yassin Mansour, participated in the list of the wealthy Arabs in general with $ 1.4 billion.

Lebanon controls 9.6% of the wealth of the Arab rich

Lebanon ranked fourth and before the last in the ranking of the richest Arab billionaires; As a result of his acquisition of 9.6% of the wealth of the Arabs through 6 billionaires with $ 12.3 billion, they are the brothers Naguib and Taha Al -Mikati, and the brothers Baha, Fahd, Ayman Hariri and Robert Mawad, but none of them had an arrangement in the list of the top ten of the wealthy Arabs for this year.

Qatar is on the list of the top ten of the wealthy Arabs

While the State of Qatar participated in the list of the top ten of the Arab wealthy Arabs for this year by Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr Al Thani, Prime Minister and former Foreign Minister of Qatar and the owner of “Paramount Services Holdings” with a score of 3.9 billion dollars, or 3% of the wealth of the Arab rich, to be in the eighth Arab place and ranking No. 929 globally.

America is the world’s richest and 107 billionaires outside the competition this year

On the global level, America ranked first with 902 billionaires, the richest of them, Elon Musk, with a score of 342 billion dollars, or 2.14% of the total wealth of the world, followed by the founder of Mitta Mark Zuckerberg, then Jeff Bezos, then Larry Ellison, and finally Bernard Arno, who fell 4 centers from last year, while came in second place in China with 516 billionaires, then India, then India With 205 billionaires.

This year, 107 of the wealthy, came out of the competition, among them the CEO of the “Advanced Micro Devices”, Lisa Soo; The founding partner of the troubled “SuperMicro” company specialized in the manufacture of servers, Sarah Leo; In addition to Nicholas Poach, the heir of the luxury commodity empire «Hermès», who says his wealth has faded, according to Forbes.