Trump’s cabinet owns more wealth than the annual GDP of 87 countries

WASHINGTON: Donald Trump’s net worth estimating to be around $3.7 billion has always been synonymous to his identity, but the Cabinet he has picked is also nowhere behind in terms of affluence.

Todd Ricketts, Trump’s pick for deputy commerce secretary, has an estimated net worth of $4.5 billion, and the new secretary of commerce, Wilbur Ross, is worth $2.5bn.

According to the UN data from 2014, the cabinet is worth an estimated $14.5bn. That’s more than the GDP of 87 countries (or 14 countries combined).

But the US-president elect is still not done with picking his complete Cabinet members.

The GDP is one of the primary indicators used to gauge the health of a country’s economy. It represents the total dollar value of all goods and services produced over a specific time period; you can think of it as the size of the economy.

According to Independent, following are the  countries whose annual GDP is worse off the  wealth of Trump’s Cabinet members.

• Tuvalu

• Montserrat

• Kiribati

• Nauru

• Marshall Islands

• Palau

• Anguilla

• Cook Islands

• Federated States of Micronesia

• Sao Tome and Principe

• Tonga

• Dominica

• Comoros

• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

• Turks and Caicos Islands

• Vanuatu

• Samoa

• The Gambia

• Saint Kitts and Nevis

• Grenada

• British Virgin Islands

• Sint Maarten

• Solomon Islands

• Guinea-Bissau

• Antigua and Barbuda

• Zanzibar

• Somalia

• Saint Lucia

• Seychelles

• Dijibouti

• Belize

• Central African Republic

• San Marino

• Cape Verde

• Bhutan

• Lesotho

• Liberia

• Greenland

• Aruba

• Burundi

• Maldives

• Guyana

• Curacao

• Andorra

• Cayman Islands

• Eritrea

• Barbados

• Swaziland

• Fiji

• Togo

• Montenegro

• Sierra Leone

• Timor-Leste

• Mauritania

• Suriname

• Bermuda

• French Polynesia

• Malawi

• Liechtenstein

• Guinea

• Monaco

• Kosovo

• Kyrgyzstan

• Rwanda

• Moldova

• Niger

• The Bahamas

• Haiti

• Tajikistan

• Benin

• New Caledonia

• Malta

• Madagascar

• Armenia

• South Sudan

• Macedonia

• Laos

• Nicaragua

• Mali

• Mongolia

• Mauritius

• Burkina Faso

• Arab Palestinian areas

• Chad

• Albania

• Namibia

• Jamaica

• The Republic of Congo

• Zimbabwe

• Senegal

• Botswana

• Georgia

• Papua New Guinea

• Equatorial Guinea

• Cambodia

• Iceland

• Mozambique

• Brunei

• North Korea

• Gabon

• Bosnia and Herzegoniva

• Nepal

• Honduras

• Afghanistan

• Cyprus

• El Salvador

• Estonia

• Zambia

• Uganda

• Trinidad and Tobago

• Paraguay

• Latvia

• Cameroon

• Bolivia

• Bahrain

• Cote d’lvoire

• Jordan

• Democratic Republic of the Congo