Bidzina Ivanishvili & family
Source of wealth: Investments
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The scale of their wealth
Health
The price of life
Let's compare Bidzina Ivanishvili & family's fortune with the healthcare spending of a massive country
Bidzina Ivanishvili & family could fund the entire healthcare system of DR Congo, with a population of over 105,800,000 people, for approximately 1.2 years.
But even if we compare their fortune with that of a rich country
On the other end, Bidzina Ivanishvili & family could cover the healthcare spending of Luxembourg, considered the most heavily funded healthcare system in the world, for 0.5 years.
Education
Buying the future
Let's also compare their fortune with education spending, first with a poor country
Bidzina Ivanishvili & family could cover the total cost of Nigeria's education system, the most populous country in Africa with over 243,000,000 inhabitants, for 0.8 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 Bidzina Ivanishvili & family could pay for it entirely for 1.1 years.
Research
The monopoly on progress
Coming full circle, we think it's also interesting to add another gigantic country
Bidzina Ivanishvili & 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 4.5 years.
And of course, the country that invests the most per capita worldwide
But even if we compare the total wealth of Bidzina Ivanishvili & 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 0.1 years.
Gold
Everyday luxuries
Bidzina Ivanishvili & family's fortune is equivalent to 19 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.
Bidzina Ivanishvili & family could buy 4,937,308 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 1 trucks to transport them. Although Bidzina Ivanishvili & family will almost certainly have enough money left over to pay for the gas.
Biography
Georgia's richest man Bidzina Ivanishvili made his money in metals and banking in Russia, then cashed out and moved back home in 2003.
Ivanishvili was elected prime minister of Georgia in October 2012.
Thirteen months later he stepped down after his party won the presidential elections, saying he'd fulfilled his task.
He entrusted about $1 billion to Credit Suisse but lost most of it; more than $100 million of that sum was apparently stolen by the bank's manager Patrice Lescaudron.
Lescaudron was found guilty in February 2018 and sentenced to five years in prison.
In December 2022 Credit Suisse paid $210 million to Ivanishvili following a court decision.
He returned to politics as honorary head of the Party Georgian Dream, a party he founded and won in the 2024 elections.
In December 2024, the U.S. sanctioned him for "undermining the democratic and Euro-Atlantic future of Georgia for the benefit of the Russian Federation."
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