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Billionaire

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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)[change]

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[change]

The source about the number of billionaires, is Forbes (March 2021)[1]
Country or territory Number of
billionaires[1]
Number of billionaires
per million people
File:Flag of Monaco.svg Monaco 3 78.740
St. Kitts & Nevis 2 37.037
File:Flag of Liechtenstein.svg Liechtenstein 1 25.710
File:Flag of Guernsey.svg Guernsey 1 15.834
File:Flag of Hong Kong.svg Hong Kong 71 8.830
File:Flag of Singapore.svg Singapore 27 4.573
File:Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland 40 4.044
File:Flag of Cyprus.svg Cyprus 3 3.378
File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden 41 2.987
File:Flag of Iceland.svg Iceland 1 2.713
File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway 12 2.226
File:Flag of the United States.svg United States 724 1.853
File:Flag of Israel.svg Israel 17 1.824
File:Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland 9 1.808
File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany 123 1.553
File:Flag of the Republic of China.svg Taiwan 35 1.529
File:Flag of Macau.svg Macau 1 1.464
File:Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark 8 1.370
File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia 34 1.203
File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada 64 1.147
File:Flag of Finland.svg Finland 6 1.090
File:Flag of Austria.svg Austria 9 1.007
File:Flag of Eswatini.svg Eswatini (Swaziland) 1 0.915
File:Flag of Lebanon.svg Lebanon 6 0.886
File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic 8 0.747
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia 117 0.677
File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 56 0.674
File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands 11 0.626
File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy 43 0.607
File:Flag of France.svg France 40 0.579
File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea 43 0.540
File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain 30 0.507
United Arab Emirates UAE 4 0.427
File:Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand 2 0.391
File:Flag of Qatar.svg Qatar 1 0.368
File:Flag of Malaysia.svg Malaysia 12 0.366
File:Flag of Slovakia.svg Slovakia 2 0.366
File:Flag of Chile.svg Chile 7 0.356
File:Flag of Thailand.svg Thailand 52 0.300
File:Flag of Greece.svg Greece 3 0.280
File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China 698 0.276
File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey 27 0.275
File:Flag of Georgia.svg Georgia 1 0.269
File:Flag of Kuwait.svg Kuwait 1 0.224
File:Flag of Oman.svg Oman 1 0.223
File:Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Kazakhstan 4 0.212
File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil 59 0.211
File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan 44 0.207
File:Flag of Poland.svg Poland 6 0.157
File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine 6 0.144
File:Flag of the Philippines.svg Philippines 15 0.136
File:Flag of India.svg India 119 0.129
File:Flag of Romania.svg Romania 2 0.104
File:Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary 1 0.103
File:Flag of Portugal.svg Portugal 1 0.097
File:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico 12 0.095
File:Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina 4 0.087
File:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Belgium 1 0.087
File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa 4 0.067
File:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Zimbabwe 1 0.063
File:Flag of Peru.svg Peru 2 0.061
File:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt 6 0.059
File:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia 3 0.059
File:Flag of Indonesia.svg Indonesia 15 0.056
File:Flag of Vietnam.svg Vietnam 4 0.041
File:Flag of Venezuela.svg Venezuela 1 0.035
File:Flag of Nepal.svg   Nepal 1 0.033
File:Flag of Angola.svg Angola 1 0.031
File:Flag of Morocco.svg Morocco 1 0.028
File:Flag of Algeria.svg Algeria 1 0.022
File:Flag of Tanzania.svg Tanzania 1 0.017
File:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria 3 0.014

Related pages[change]

References[change]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Forbes Billionaires 2021". Forbes. Retrieved 13 April 2021.