# The 10 Richest Families in the World, How Many Do You Know?

The Walton family now firmly holds the throne as the world's richest family, with a net worth of $224.5 billion—this figure is greater than the GDP of many countries. However, this group did not become wealthy through the entrepreneurship of a single individual; instead, they relied on Walmart, this money-printing machine, passing it down through generations, allowing wealth to automatically snowball.

The top 5 richest families are: Walton 02245 billion, Mars Candy 01600 billion, Koch Industries 01288 billion, Saudi Royal Family 01105 billion, Hermes 01946 billion.

Interestingly, the Hermès family started by selling handbags, and today a Birkin bag can cost several thousand dollars; their wealth is in your shopping cart. In contrast, the Roche family, although ranked 10(451 billion ), only needs to control 9% of the company's shares to count money in their sleep.

The most extraordinary is the Rothschild family in history - in the 19th century, their net worth was estimated to be between 500 billion to 1 trillion dollars, but due to the wealth being dispersed over too many generations, they have now fallen out of the top 10. This is what is called having a large family business but it becomes worthless.

These are not wealthy people, but rather a real dynasty.