Mukesh Ambani’s family has topped the list of Asia’s richest families made by Forbes with the net worth of net $44.8 billion. Last year their net worth was $19 billion. Korea’s Lee family who was top on the list last year has secured the 2nd position with $40.8 billion as their net worth. Hong Kong’s Kwok family that owns Sun Hung Kai Properties, stands on the third position.
The Mukesh Ambani family is the only Indian family in the top 10 of this list. “No family highlights this surge better than the Ambanis of India, this year’s biggest gainer in dollar and percentage terms,” Forbes said.
Other Indian families included in this list are the Premjis (rank 11, $19.2 billion net worth), the Hindujas (12th, $18.8 billion), the Mittals (14th, $17.2 billion), the Mistrys (16th, $16.1 billion) and the Birlas (19th, $14.1 billion), the Godrej family (20th, $14 billion), the Bajajs (26th, $9.3 billion), the Jindal family (32nd, $7.7 billion), the Burmans (35th, $7.05 billion), Eicher Motors’ Lals (36th, $7 billion) and Shree Cement’s Bangur family (37th, $6.7 billion).
The sum of net worths of these 50 families is a record- $699 billion and the net worth of getting an entry for this year’s list was $5 billion, which is $1.6 billion more than 2016.
