Raul Amoros, Avery Koop and Joyce Ma, using data from Wealth-X, mapped out where the world's 3,311 billionaires have registered their primary business addresses. Collectively, this group holds around $11.8 trillion in wealth.
Key Takeaways
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Between 2021 and 2022, it's estimated that the billionaire population grew by three percent. During the same time, their collective wealth went up by 18 percent.
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Europe had the biggest growth in billionaires, up 22 percent year-over-year, where the population of billionaires in the Middle East dropped by 12.5 percent.
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There are more than 100 billionaires in eight countries: the US (975), China (400), Germany (176), India (124), United Kingdom (120), Hong Kong SAR (114), Switzerland (111) and Russia (107).
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Via Visual Capitalist.