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Per Forbes (April 2024) [1]; Rank Rank per capita Country/Territory Billionaires Rate - World 2,781: 0.343 1 11 United States 813: 2.420 2 53 China 406: 0.288 3 58 India 200: 0.144
Gates became the first American to take the top spot of the world's billionaires in 1995 with a net worth of $12.5 billion, and he remained there during the dot-com bubble's height in 1999 when his fortune peaked at $90 billion. After the dot-com bubble started to collapse in 2000, his wealth dropped to $60 billion, although he remained at the ...
As of April 2024, there are 2,781 billionaires worldwide, with a combined wealth of over US$14.2 trillion, up from US$12.2 trillion in 2023. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] According to a 2024 Oxfam report, the world's top 1% of earners own more combined wealth "than 95% of humanity". [ 5 ]
How Many Billionaires Are There in the World in 2022? Achieving billionaire status is a very big deal, but not as difficult as it once was. Today, there are more than 19 times the amount of ...
This is a listing of U.S. states (plus the District of Columbia) according to the number of billionaires residing in each. As of 2024, there are 756 billionaires living in 43 of the 50 US states or Washington, D.C. [1] [2] The only states with no billionaire residents are Alaska, Delaware, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Vermont, and West Virginia.
Musk, the richest man in the world, has poured more than $3 billion into the ever-expanding rocket-producing venture of SpaceX, perched in a river delta about 22 miles east of Brownsville.
Billion is a word for a large number, and it has two distinct definitions: 1,000,000,000 , i.e. one thousand million , or 10 9 (ten to the ninth power ), as defined on the short scale . This is now the most common sense of the word in all varieties of English; it has long been established in American English and has since become common in ...
Rank Name Net worth in billion US$ Source of wealth Age; 1: Elon Musk: 251: Tesla, SpaceX: 52 2: Jeff Bezos: 161: Amazon: 59 3: Larry Ellison: 158: Oracle: 79 4 ...