If Bill Gates bought up as many countries as he could afford, what would his empire look like?

According to Bloomberg, the estimated net worth of Bill Gates is around 85.6$ billion, as of June 2016.

Let’s assume a country’s worth is counted by its produced GDP, which is the monetary measure of the value of all final goods and services produced by a country in a year, as there is no real way to know how much a country is really worth since no one’s ever bought a country in recent times with hard cash.

If he would start buying up countries starting with the lowest GDP, it would look something like this:

Data from the International Monetary Fund (2015)

Rank - Country - GDP (Millions of Int$)

156 - Burundi - 7,711

157 - Timor-Leste - 6,570

158 - Bhutan - 6,385

159 - Lesotho - 5,770

160 - Guyana - 5,759

161 - Maldives - 5,191

162 - Barbados - 4,636

163 - Liberia - 3,749

164 - Cabo Verde - 3,423

165 - The Gambia - 3,261

166 - Djibouti - 3,094

167 - Belize - 3,049

168 - Central African Republic - 3,018

169 - Guinea-Bissau - 2,680

170 - Seychelles - 2,417

171 - Antigua and Barbuda - 2,097

172 - St. Lucia - 2,030

173 - San Marino - 1,982

174 - Grenada - 1,401

175 - St. Kitts and Nevis - 1,379

176 - Comoros - 1,214

177 - St. Vincent and the Grenadines - 1,205

178 - Solomon Islands - 1,146

179 - Samoa - 1,000

180 - Dominica - 763

181 - Vanuatu - 685

182 - São Tomé and Príncipe - 658

Source: https://www.quora.com/If-Bill-Gates-bought-up-as-many-countries-as-he-could-afford-what-would-his-empire-look-like

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I'm sure Bill Gates will gladly forego all those countries you listed and buy Nigeria instead. Lol.