According to the latest data, “only” 3194 billionaires live on Earth. Most of us are in the United States. In 2022, most people have entered the narrow elite club from Oceania.
The latest summary of the world’s billionaires is ready. According to the annual report of Altrata in New York, the number of billionaires in the world decreased in 2022, by 3.5 percent compared to 2021, and the narrowest elite now includes “only” 3,194 people.
According to the research, most of them live in the United States, where 955 super-rich live, while China (357 people) and Germany (173 people) have climbed the podium. The largest drop in the number of billionaires was recorded in China, where nearly 40 people left the elite club in one year, but the fortunes of the remaining billionaires also fell sharply, becoming more than ten percent lower.
Incidentally, this was true of wealthy people all over the world,
The 3,194 richest people own a total of about $11.1 trillion in assets.
387,000 belong to the next “class,” which Altrata defines as between $30 million and $1 billion, while the next step, the wealthy between $5 million and $30 million, have more than 3.6 million.
These 4 million people own a total of $81 trillion. By the way, only fifteen people on earth can feel the real wealth, and their per capita wealth exceeds the dream limit of $50 billion.
Although Altrata does not name names, it is not difficult to guess that Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, who are considered leaders in several lists, are among them.
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Interestingly, San Francisco, Musk’s headquarters and home to Silicon Valley, is not the favorite place for billionaires to live, with two cities overtaking it.
California is home to 84 billionaires, and they just put it on the podium ahead of Moscow (76 people) and London (75 people), with New York (136 people) and Hong Kong (112 people) taking the top two places.
By the way, the number of billionaires has increased only in two countries, Singapore and Russia. In the latter, 4.7 percent were the ultra-rich, so that number rose to 112. This is particularly interesting because Russia is under severe economic sanctions, international trade is almost impossible, and foreign investment has been severely restricted by Western countries. In this way, many new Russian billionaires have become in the past year.
The data also revealed that although most wealthy people started their own businesses at a very young age and had to wait a long time to get their first billion dollars, the majority of them, 64 percent, became rich on their own. Persons under the age of forty entered the list only through inheritance. The number of the super-rich under the age of 50 is only 9.5 percent, and those over the age of 70 make up 42.2 percent.
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The average age among the ultra-rich is 67.2 years. And by the way, only 12.5 percent of the more than three thousand super-rich billionaires are women.
By the way, according to the survey, the super-rich not only like to accumulate wealth, but also like to part with it. Their favorite hobbies are charity work and management of various institutions, followed by sports, flying, art, travel and politics. They spend their fortunes primarily on education, but social and health developments, as well as culture and environmental protection, are also priority areas – It can be read at Vilaggazdaság.
