Andrei Guryev & family
Source of wealth: Fertilizers
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The scale of their wealth
Health
The price of life
Let's compare Andrei Guryev & family's fortune with the healthcare spending of a massive country
Andrei Guryev & family could fund the entire healthcare system of DR Congo, with a population of over 105,800,000 people, for approximately 4.8 years.
But even if we compare their fortune with that of a rich country
On the other end, Andrei Guryev & family could cover the healthcare spending of Luxembourg, considered the most heavily funded healthcare system in the world, for 2.1 years.
Education
Buying the future
Let's also compare their fortune with education spending, first with a poor country
Andrei Guryev & family could cover the total cost of Nigeria's education system, the most populous country in Africa with over 243,000,000 inhabitants, for 3.2 years.
And yes, we can also compare it with a rich country
But they couldn't just cover the cost of a poor country; Luxembourg is considered the country with the highest per capita investment in education in the world, and Andrei Guryev & family could pay for it entirely for 4.3 years.
Research
The monopoly on progress
Coming full circle, we think it's also interesting to add another gigantic country
Andrei Guryev & family could fully fund the state research budget of Pakistan, the fifth most populous country in the world with over 260,000,000 inhabitants, for 18.1 years.
And of course, the country that invests the most per capita worldwide
But even if we compare the total wealth of Andrei Guryev & family with Israel, the country that invests the most per capita in research in the world, they could cover the total cost of the system for 0.4 years.
Gold
Everyday luxuries
Andrei Guryev & family's fortune is equivalent to 74 tons of gold. It's hard to process, since we don't usually keep a handful of gold bars in our piggy banks.
A standard gold ring usually weighs between 4 and 7 grams. Let's say this one weighs 5 grams. It's usually 18 karats.
Based on today's gold price (excluding the jeweler's commission, shipping, or anything else), that ring would be worth $546.86.
Andrei Guryev & family could buy 19,699,687 gold rings. That's a lot of fingers and way too many gifts!!
And if you're struggling to visualize that many rings, it would take 4 trucks to transport them. Although Andrei Guryev & family will almost certainly have enough money left over to pay for the gas.
Biography
Andrei Guryev and his family own almost 50% of PhosAgro, one of the world's largest producers of phosphate-based fertilizers.
He stepped down as deputy chairman of PhosAgro's board in March 2022 after his son was included in the EU sanction list. He was sanctioned later by the U.K. and U.S.
Meanwhile his son, Andrei A. Guryev, stepped down as CEO of PhosAgro around the same time.
A former communist committee leader in Moscow, Guryev got his start as deputy director at Mikhail Khodorkovsky's Menatep Group in 1990.
After Khodorkovsky, his former boss and once Russia's richest person, went to jail, Guryev led a buyout of Menatep subsidiary PhosAgro.
Financial Assets
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