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 €.

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 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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