It gives a short description for the industry they get their wealth from. I used the browser’s inspector to grab the HTML and counted them up. Now, I note at a glance that it lists Mackenzie Scott as “Technology”, and a total of 5 Waltons as “Retail”; but I doubt “getting billions from your family” happens much more often in some industries than others, so the relative comparison seems probably reasonable.
~> p | grep -A1 'table-cell t-industry' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
[... omitting noise ...]
74 Technology
62 Finance
60 Industrial
53 Diversified
39 Consumer
36 Retail
33 Health Care
30 Energy
27 Food & Beverage
24 Real Estate
22 Media & Telecom
17 Commodities
12 Entertainment
11 Services
Oh, and if you want the U.S. specifically:
~> p | egrep -A1 'table-cell t-industry|table-cell t-country' | egrep -v '^--|<' | grep -A1 'United States' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
188 United States
115 --
40 Technology
37 Finance
16 Retail
15 Energy
11 Media & Telecom
11 Food & Beverage
11 Consumer
9 Diversified
8 Industrial
8 Entertainment
7 Services
7 Real Estate
6 Health Care
2 Commodities
I looked around a bit, and found Bloomberg’s list of the top 500 billionaires: https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/
It gives a short description for the industry they get their wealth from. I used the browser’s inspector to grab the HTML and counted them up. Now, I note at a glance that it lists Mackenzie Scott as “Technology”, and a total of 5 Waltons as “Retail”; but I doubt “getting billions from your family” happens much more often in some industries than others, so the relative comparison seems probably reasonable.
Oh, and if you want the U.S. specifically:
Weight them by wealth too.