List of Latin Americans by net worth

The list of Latin Americans by net worth is based on an annual assessment of wealth and assets compiled and published by Forbes magazine in 2019. In the same year the region of Latin America and the Caribbean had over 100 billionaires (in USD). The countries with the most billionaires are: Brazil (65), Mexico (13), Chile (8), Peru (6), Argentina (5), Colombia (2) and Venezuela (1) and Uruguay (1).

Annual rankings[]

2021[]

Rank	Name	Net worth (USD):[1]	Age	Country	Source(s) of wealth
1	Iris Fontbona	23.3 billion	78	Chile	mining
2	Jorge Paulo Lemann	16.9 billion	81	Brazil	beer
3	Eduardo Saverin	14.6 billion	39	Brazil	Facebook
4	Ricardo Salinas Pliego	12.9 billion	65	Mexico	retail, media
5	Marcel Herrmann Telles	11.5 billion	71	Brazil	beer
6		11.3 billion	76	Brazil	hospitals
7	Luis Carlos Sarmiento	11.0 billion	88	Colombia	banking
8	Alberto Baillères	9.2 billion	89	Mexico	mining
9	Juan Francisco Beckmann Vidal	9.0 billion	81	Mexico	tequila
10	Carlos Alberto Sicupira	8.7 billion	72	Brazil	beer
11	Safra family	7.1 billion	-	Brazil	banking
12	Marcos Galperin	6.1 billion	49	Argentina	e-commerce
13		6.0 billion	73	Brazil	hospitals, health care
14	María Asunción Aramburuzabala	5.8 billion	57	Mexico	beer, investments
15		5.4 billion	71	Brazil	fertilizer
16	Luiza Trajano	5.3 billion	69	Brazil	retail chain
17	Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor	5.3 billion	62	Peru	finance
28	David Vélez	5.2 billion	39	Colombia	fintech

2019[]

Rank	Name	Net worth (USD):[2]	Age	Country	Source(s) of wealth
1	Carlos Slim Helu	64.0 billion	79	Mexico	telecom
2	Joseph Safra	25.2 billion	80	Brazil	banking
3	Jorge Paulo Lemann	24.6 billion	79	Brazil	beer
4	Iris Fontbona	15.4 billion	76	Chile	mining
5	Germán Larrea Mota-Velasco	13.3 billion	65	Mexico	mining
6	Ricardo Salinas Pliego	11.1 billion	63	Mexico	retail, media
7	Luis Carlos Sarmiento	10.8 billion	86	Colombia	banking
8	Marcel Herrmann Telles	9.9 billion	69	Brazil	beer
9	Eduardo Saverin	9.7 billion	37	Brazil	Facebook
10	Carlos Alberto Sicupira	8.9 billion	71	Brazil	beer
11	Alberto Baillères	7.4 billion	87	Mexico	mining
12	Eva Gonda de Rivera	6.7 billion	-	Mexico	beverages
13	María Asunción Aramburuzabala	5.6 billion	56	Mexico	beer, investments
14	Jerónimo Arango	4.3 billion	93	Mexico	retail
15	Juan Francisco Beckmann Vidal	4.3 billion	79	Mexico	tequila
16	Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor	4.1 billion	60	Peru	finance
17	Juan Carlos Escotet	3.8 billion	59	Venezuela	banking
17	Julio Ponce Lerou	3.8 billion	73	Chile	fertilizer
19	Jaime Gilinski Bacal	3.6 billion	61	Colombia	banking
20	Jose Joao Abdalla Filho	3.4 billion	74	Brazil	investments

See also[]

• Lists of billionaires
• List of countries by the number of billionaires

References[]