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TH E WORL D ÕS BI LLIONA IR ES

TOP SECTORS WEALTH
ORIGIN
TAIWAN 9 9% THAILAND
TECHNOLOGY
7 34% 57%
FINANCE & INVESTMENTS WEALTH
GDP: $573.3 BIL 5 GDP: $449 BIL TOP SECTORS ORIGIN
POPULATION: 24 MIL FOOD & BEVERAGE POPULATION: 69 MIL 11
BILLIONAIRES: 35 (+4 VS. 2017) 4 INHERITED & GROWING BILLIONAIRES: DIVERSIFIED 20%
TOTAL NET WORTH: $84.4 BIL MANUFACTURING INHERITED 30 (+10 VS. 2017) 5 47%
SELF-MADE
(+$9.2 BIL VS. 2017) 4 TOTAL NET WORTH: FINANCE & INVESTMENTS 33%
REAL ESTATE $93.3 BIL (+$30.1 BIL 4
VS. 2017) FOOD & BEVERAGE
4 INHERITED & GROWING
Terry Gou  Chen Yung-Tai  Wei Yin-Heng  REAL ESTATE INHERITED
SELF-MADE
$8.5 BIL #181 ELECTRONICS $2 BIL #1215 REAL ESTATE $1.6 BIL #1477 FOOD, 2
BEVERAGES
Tsai Eng-Meng & family  Liao Long-shing  ENERGY
$6.8 BIL #242 FOOD, BEVERAGES $1.9 BIL #1284 PETROCHEMICALS Wei Ying-Chiao 
$1.6 BIL #1477 FOOD,
Lin Yu-Ling  Lin Shu-Hong  BEVERAGES
$5.8 BIL #305 REAL ESTATE $1.9 BIL #1284 PETROCHEMICALS
Lin Ming-hsiung 
Barry Lam  Tseng Shin-yi  $1.5 BIL #1561 SUPERMARKETS
$3.9 BIL #572 ELECTRONICS $1.9 BIL #1284 PETROCHEMICALS
Chao Teng-hsiung 
Samuel Yin  Tony Chen & family  $1.4 BIL #1650 REAL ESTATE
$3.7 BIL #606 DIVERSIFIED $1.7 BIL #1394 ELECTRONICS
Liu Ko-chen & family ★
Luo Jye & family  Wei Ing-Chou  $1.4 BIL #1650 MANUFACTURING
$3.2 BIL #729 TIRES $1.6 BIL #1477 FOOD,
BEVERAGES Thomas Wu 
Daniel Tsai  $1.4 BIL #1650 FINANCE
$3.2 BIL #729 FINANCE Wei Yin-Chun 
$1.6 BIL #1477 FOOD, Bruce Cheng 
Richard Tsai  BEVERAGES $1.3 BIL #1756 ELECTRONICS
$3.2 BIL #729 FINANCE BANGKOK Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi 
Archie Hwang  27 $17.9 BIL #65 DRINKS,
Tsai Hong-tu  $1.3 BIL #1756 SEMICONDUCTORS
$2.9 BIL #822 FINANCE REAL ESTATE
Andre Koo ★ Dhanin Chearavanont 
Pierre Chen  $1.3 BIL #1756 FINANCE
$2.7 BIL #887 ART, ELECTRONICS $14.9 BIL #95 DIVERSIFIED
Tsai Ming-Kai  KO KUT ISLAND Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha 
Tsai Cheng-da  $1.3 BIL #1756 SEMICONDUCTORS
$2.7 BIL #887 FINANCE EXPATRIATES $5 BIL #388 DUTY-FREE
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Douglas Hsu & family  Sumet Jiaravanon 
Chin Jong Hwa  $1.2 BIL #1867 DIVERSIFIED
$2.5 BIL #965 AUTO PARTS $4.2 BIL #514 DIVERSIFIED
Morris Chang ★ Jaran Chiaravanont 
Scott Lin & family  $1 BIL #2124 SEMICONDUCTORS
$2.2 BIL #1103 $4.1 BIL #527 DIVERSIFIED
OPTICAL COMPONENTS Richard Chang  Montri Jiaravanont 
$1 BIL #2124 REAL ESTATE,
T.Y. Tsai  ELECTRONICS $4.1 BIL #527 DIVERSIFIED
$2.2 BIL #1103 FINANCE Sarath Ratanavadi ★
Wu Chung-yi  $3.6 BIL #629 ENERGY
$1 BIL #2124 MANUFACTURING
Somphote Ahunai 
TAIPEI $3.4 BIL #679 ENERGY
TAOYUAN 25 PHUKET Vanich Chaiyawan 
MORRIS CHANG $3.3 BIL #703 INSURANCE,
BEVERAGES

HSINCHU FUBON GUARDIANS NEWCOMER: A legendary figure in
DANIEL & RICHARD TSAI Taiwan’s chip industry, Chang makes
EXPATRIATES his debut on the list after shares of Tai-
3
wan Semiconductor Manufacturing hit an
all-time high in January. Chang, who got
HSINCHU SCIENCE PARK
both his undergraduate and master’s de-
grees from MIT and a Ph.D. from Stanford,
founded TSMC in 1987. A decade later, the

company became the first Taiwanese firm to
trade on the New York Stock Exchange.
TAICHUNG
CHANGHUA
COUNTY
SOUTHERN TAIWAN
SCIENCE PARK
SATHIEN SETTHASIT
NEWCOMER: Setthasit teamed up with a friend, popular folk singer
Aed Carabao (above), to create the energy drink Carabao Dang
in 2002. Setthasit is the majority owner and CEO, but Aed, who has
a smaller stake in the company and appears in ads, is the one most
associated with Carabao, now Thailand’s second-most-popular en-

ergy drink brand .
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