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Countries by median wealth per adult; source: Credit Suisse. Wealth is the abundance of valuable financial assets or physical possessions which can be converted into a form that can be used for transactions. This includes the core meaning as held in the originating Old English word weal, which is from an Indo-European word stem. [1]
In the 32nd annual Forbes list of the world's billionaires, the aggregate wealth of the top 20 richest people on Earth amounted to about 13 percent of all billionaires' fortunes combined. [16] A record of 2,208 billionaires were in the ranking and the total wealth was $9.1 trillion, up 18% since 2017.
Kleptocracy (from Greek κλέπτης kléptēs, "thief", or κλέπτω kléptō, "I steal", and -κρατία-kratía from κράτος krátos, "power, rule"), also referred to as thievocracy, [1] [2] is a government whose corrupt leaders (kleptocrats) use political power to expropriate the wealth of the people and land they govern ...
According to Forbes, the world is home to nearly 3,000 people who need three commas to measure their wealth. America’s 735 billionaires alone hoard a combined $4.7 trillion in personal fortune.
The world’s wealthiest people have several things in common, but one of the most prominent is that the 10 richest have more than $100 billion to their name. The very top have more than $200 billion.
Per Knight Frank's Wealth Report (2018) [4] [5] Rank Country/Territory Number of billionaires World: 3,381 1 United States: 585 2 Mainland China: 373 3 Germany: 123 4 India: 119 5 Russia: 101 6 Hong Kong: 64 7 United Kingdom: 54 8 Canada: 46 9 South Korea: 44 10 Italy: 43 11 France: 40 12 Switzerland: 36 13 Japan: 35 Taiwan: 35 14 Australia: 34
Here’s an even closer look at how the 10 richest people in the world got to where they are. 1. Elon Musk. Age: 51. Nationality: South Africa. Companies: Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Company ...
There is a distinction between wealth held by identifiable individual billionaires or a "nuclear family" and the wider notion of an extended family or a historical "dynasty," where the wealth of a historically family-owned company or business like the Scudder family has become distributed between various branches of descendants, [3] usually ...