The highest lottery Jackpot worldwide

With the large lotteries in America and Europe, staggering prizes can be won on a regular basis. More than 100 million is not unusual. The Powerball, the Mega Millions, the EuroMillions and the EuroJackpot have a Jackpot which can increase to a considerable amount.

We list for you the largest Jackpots from the top lotteries worldwide. Look at the dizzying amounts of sometimes hundreds of millions in America, South America, Asia, Europe and Australia.

In 1 case, last January, the limit of 1 billion was even exceeded. This prize of more than one and a half billion American dollars had to be shared amongst 3 winners. For that matter, we don’t believe that these lotto winners would have very many objections to that .

United States

Powerball
$1,586,400,000 (13 January 2016)
3 winning tickets, US

Mega Millions
$656,000,000 (30 March 2012)
3 winning tickets, US

Mega Millions
$648,000,000 (17 December 2013)
2 winning tickets, 
US

Europe

EuroMillions
€ 190 million (10 August 2012)
1 winning ticket, UK

EuroMillions
€ 190 million (24 October 2014)
1 winning ticket, Portugal

EuroMillions
€ 185 million (12 July 2011)
1 winning ticket, UK

As well as the above-mentioned top 3 in Europe, the Spanish Christmas lottery (Sorteo Extraordinario de Navidad) traditionally resulted in a very considerable sum. The Jackpot in 2012 was € 720,000,000, whereby, incidentally, the pre-printed tickets with 5 figures were issued as many as 180 times. As a result of this, the amount of € 4,000,000 per ticket is not very high. Although we would have loved to have won this. The total sum of € 720,000,000 does indeed remain extraordinarily impressive…

Australia

Oz Lotto
$ 111,972,151 (AUS Dollar) - (6 November 2012)
4 winners, Australia

South America

Mega da Virada (Mega Sena)
R$ 263,295,552 (31 December 2014)
Brazil

Asia

Taiwan Super Lotto
NT$3 billion (US$ 96.48 million) - (22 April 2015)
1 winner, Taiwan