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World Economic Forum 2017 7: 138 Number of billionaires 2016: 7: 74 Global Innovation Index 2024 [6] 5: 133 Politics and liberties V-Dem Democracy indices 2023 [7] 22: 179 Democracy Index (The Economist) 2019 [8] 14: 167 Freedom House ranking of political rights 2016 [3] 8: 195 Freedom House ranking of civil liberties 2016 [3] 195 Fragile ...
Richard Arkwright (1733–1792), revolutionised the cotton industry in England during the Industrial Revolution; once called the "father of the Industrial Revolution" Sir Timothy Berners-Lee (born 1955), inventor of the World Wide Web; Henry Bessemer (1813–1898), inventor of the Bessemer Process which was the first way of mass-producing steel
UBS publishes various statistics relevant for calculating net wealth. These figures are influenced by real estate prices, equity market prices, exchange rates, liabilities, debts, adult percentage of the population, human resources, natural resources and capital and technological advancements, which may create new assets or render others worthless in the future.
The general top-30 list of people (above, now extended to top-100) included 23 living people as of January 2020. This is a feature of the "nascent" Wikipedia. In the course of generations, such top-lists will contain only people who have died, [ citation needed ] for view-count continues posthumously.
World rank Name Net worth Source of wealth 54 Sir James Dyson: 27.3 billion Consumer 61: Sir Jim Ratcliffe: 25 billion: Industrial 91: Hinduja family: 15 billion: Diversified 171 Duke of Westminster: 13.2 billion Real Estate 242 Michael Platt: 9.91 billion Finance 247 Denise Coates: 9.75 billion Gambling 288 Lord Bamford & family: 8.73 billion ...
The European Union is a supranational union composed of 27 member states. The total English-speaking population of the European Union and the United Kingdom combined (2012) is 256,876,220 [69] (out of a total population of 500,000,000, [70] i.e. 51%) including 65,478,252 native speakers and 191,397,968 non-native speakers, and would be ranked 2nd if it were included.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 January 2025. This article needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (March 2022) World map of countries shaded according to the literacy rate for all people aged 15 and over This is a list of countries by literacy rate. The global ...
The BBC television programme The Daily Politics asked viewers in 2007 to select their favourite prime minister out of a list of ten who served between 1945 and 2007 (excluding Churchill). [11] In 2008, BBC Newsnight held a poll of 27,000 people, to decide the UK's greatest and worst post-war prime minister. [12] Key: