Billionaire

person who has a net worth of at least one billion (1,000,000,000) units of a given currency

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)

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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

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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
  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
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References

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