The ''Financial Review'' Rich List 2019 is the 36th annual survey of the 200 wealthiest people resident in
Australia
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, published by ''
The Australian Financial Review
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'' on 31 May 2019.
The
net worth
Net worth is the value of all the non-financial and financial assets owned by an individual or institution minus the value of all its outstanding liabilities. Since financial assets minus outstanding liabilities equal net financial assets, net ...
of the wealthiest individual,
Anthony Pratt Anthony Pratt may refer to:
* Anthony Pratt (businessman)
Anthony Joseph Pratt (born 11 April 1960 in Melbourne, Victoria), an Australian businessman and billionaire, is the Executive Chairman of Visy Industries and Pratt Industries in America, ...
, was 15.77
billion
Billion is a word for a large number, and it has two distinct definitions:
*1,000,000,000, i.e. one thousand million, or (ten to the ninth power), as defined on the short scale. This is its only current meaning in English.
* 1,000,000,000,000, i.e ...
; while the net worth of the 200th wealthiest individual,
Patricia Ilhan, was 472 million; up from 387 million in 2018.
The combined wealth of the 200 individuals was calculated as 342 billion; compared with a combined wealth of 6.4 billion in 1984 when the ''BRW'' Rich 200 commenced.
Twenty-six women were included on the 2019 Rich List, representing 13 percent of the list; up from seventeen in 2018, or 8.5 percent.
[ The list included seventeen debutants.][
]
List of individuals
:
See also
* ''Financial Review'' Rich List
* ''Forbes Asia'' list of Australians by net worth
Notes
References
External links
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{{Lists of Australian people by net worth, state=collapsed
2019 in Australia
2019
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