Posted on 04/10/2022 7:27:33 PM PDT by blam
According to the Forbes Billionaires List of 2022, most of the world’s richest people are at home in the United States. As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz details below, the country counted 867 billionaires per the list’s last release Tuesday. This is several more than the second-ranked country, China, with 607 and many more than in third-placed India with 165.
You will find more infographics at Statista
According to Forbes, 236 new billionaire were minted in the last year, translating into an average of 4.5 new billionaires every week.
This included the first billionaires from Estonia, Bulgaria, Uruguay and Barbados. The newcomer from the latter country, you guessed it, is singer Rihanna, who build her fortune through her music career and cosmetics line Fenty.
Intresting none are shown from the Middle Eastern Nations.
I would think that Saudi Arabia and Kuwait would have a lot of billionaires, but according to this map, they have none.
They can only those that have their wealth based in publicly traded companies. Saudi wealth belongs to the sheiks and would be treated as private.
There are likely very rich people that we know nothing about, because their wealth has always been private.
After two more years of Bidenomics we may all be billionaires! Of course, a billion dollars won’t buy you a cup of coffee.
Interesting.
“After two more years of Bidenomics we may all be billionaires”!
BINGO!
Zimbabwe here we come.
But THIS time, socialism will work!
AOC told us so.
They’re going to be hiding in their underground bunkers before long. Like moles.
Musk said on Rogan that Putin was richer than he was and by allot.
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