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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Argentina | 4 | 0.087 |
| Belgium | 1 | 0.087 |
| South Africa | 4 | 0.067 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 0.063 |
| Peru | 2 | 0.061 |
| Egypt | 6 | 0.059 |
| Colombia | 3 | 0.059 |
| Indonesia | 15 | 0.056 |
| Vietnam | 4 | 0.041 |
| 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 |
Related pages
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Forbes Billionaires 2021". Forbes. Retrieved 13 April 2021.