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In 2023, Charlène de Carvalho-Heineken was the richest person in the Netherlands, with an estimated wealth of over **** billion euros. The Dutch-English businesswoman is the owner of a ** percent controlling interest in the world's second-largest brewer, Heineken International.

 A small fish? 

  Compared to other billionaires worldwide, De Carvalho-Heineken’s assets are relatively modest. She ranked 89th on the list of the world’s leading billionaires in 2019, far behind the likes of Jeff Bezos (estimated assets of *** billion U.S. dollars), Bill Gates (nearly ** billion dollars) and Warren Buffet (**** billion dollars).

 Fertile ground for millionaires

  Charlène de Carvalho-Heineken was not the only rich inhabitant of the Netherlands. Quite the opposite: for such a small country, the Netherlands has a relatively high number of millionaires. In 2019, there were over ** millionaires in the Netherlands on a population of roughly ** million. That year, only ten other countries in the world had more individuals with a net worth over one million U.S. dollars than the Netherlands.