The 15 most billionaire-dense countries

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In this handout provided by Martini, Fashion model, Amber le Bon arrives on the Vector MARTINI Powerboat on qualifying day at the Monaco Grand Prix at the MARTINI party at Y.CO on May 24, 2014 in Monte-Carlo, Monaco.

There are 1,826 billionaires in the world and there are some countries that have hundreds of them.

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However, while nations like China may house some of the world's richest people, with 400 billionaires, it doesn't actually have the highest number of billionaires in proportion to the population.

Approved Index, a UK-based business-networking group, crunched the numbers from Forbes' billionaire list for 2015 using this week's data and found that the most billionaire-dense nations across the world are pretty surprising.