Billionaire
A billionaire is a person who has a net worth of at least one billion (1,000,000,000) units of currency. This is usually used for major currencies with large values, like Pound Sterlings £, American dollars $, or Euros €.
Billionaires (in United States dollars)
In March 2021, there were 2,755 people in the world who were considered to be billionaires (in United States dollars).[1]
Every year, the American business magazine Forbes, and its website, releases a list of billionaires called The World's Billionaires.
The number of billionaires per million people
| Country or territory | Number of billionaires[1] |
Number of billionaires per million people |
|---|---|---|
 Monaco |
3 | 78.740 |
| St. Kitts & Nevis | 2 | 37.037 |
 Liechtenstein |
1 | 25.710 |
 Guernsey |
1 | 15.834 |
 Hong Kong |
71 | 8.830 |
 Singapore |
27 | 4.573 |
 Switzerland |
40 | 4.044 |
 Cyprus |
3 | 3.378 |
 Sweden |
41 | 2.987 |
 Iceland |
1 | 2.713 |
 Norway |
12 | 2.226 |
 United States |
724 | 1.853 |
 Israel |
17 | 1.824 |
 Ireland |
9 | 1.808 |
 Germany |
123 | 1.553 |
 Taiwan |
35 | 1.529 |
 Macau |
1 | 1.464 |
 Denmark |
8 | 1.370 |
 Australia |
34 | 1.203 |
 Canada |
64 | 1.147 |
 Finland |
6 | 1.090 |
 Austria |
9 | 1.007 |
 Eswatini (Swaziland) |
1 | 0.915 |
 Lebanon |
6 | 0.886 |
 Czech Republic |
8 | 0.747 |
 Russia |
117 | 0.677 |
 United Kingdom |
56 | 0.674 |
| File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands | 11 | 0.626 |
 Italy |
43 | 0.607 |
 France |
40 | 0.579 |
 South Korea |
43 | 0.540 |
 Spain |
30 | 0.507 |
 UAE |
4 | 0.427 |
 New Zealand |
2 | 0.391 |
 Qatar |
1 | 0.368 |
 Malaysia |
12 | 0.366 |
 Slovakia |
2 | 0.366 |
| File:Flag of Chile.svg Chile | 7 | 0.356 |
 Thailand |
52 | 0.300 |
 Greece |
3 | 0.280 |
 China |
698 | 0.276 |
 Turkey |
27 | 0.275 |
 Georgia |
1 | 0.269 |
 Kuwait |
1 | 0.224 |
 Oman |
1 | 0.223 |
 Kazakhstan |
4 | 0.212 |
| File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil | 59 | 0.211 |
 Japan |
44 | 0.207 |
 Poland |
6 | 0.157 |
 Ukraine |
6 | 0.144 |
 Philippines |
15 | 0.136 |
 India |
119 | 0.129 |
 Romania |
2 | 0.104 |
 Hungary |
1 | 0.103 |
 Portugal |
1 | 0.097 |
 Mexico |
12 | 0.095 |
| File:Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina | 4 | 0.087 |
| File:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Belgium | 1 | 0.087 |
 South Africa |
4 | 0.067 |
 Zimbabwe |
1 | 0.063 |
 Peru |
2 | 0.061 |
 Egypt |
6 | 0.059 |
| File:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia | 3 | 0.059 |
 Indonesia |
15 | 0.056 |
 Vietnam |
4 | 0.041 |
| File:Flag of Venezuela.svg Venezuela | 1 | 0.035 |
 Nepal |
1 | 0.033 |
 Angola |
1 | 0.031 |
 Morocco |
1 | 0.028 |
 Algeria |
1 | 0.022 |
 Tanzania |
1 | 0.017 |
 Nigeria |
3 | 0.014 |
Billionaire Media
Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller became the first billionaire in 1916.
Global share of wealth by wealth group, Credit Suisse, 2021
Global share of wealth by wealth group, Credit Suisse, 2017
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Related pages
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Forbes Billionaires 2021. Forbes. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
