1) Data Introduction • The Billionaires Statistics Dataset (2023) is a comprehensive set of personal and business information, including rankings of billionaires worldwide, net assets, industries, businesses, nationalities, birth and residence information, and asset sources.

2) Data Utilization (1) Billionaires Statistics Dataset (2023) has characteristics that: • The dataset consists of more than 35 columns, including the billionaire's rank, final Worth, industry, country, age, country of residence, source of assets, related industries, citizenship, organization, selfMade, birth information, data collection date, economic and social indicators (GDP, CPI, education enrollment, life expectancy, tax revenue, population, etc.). • In addition to individual asset information, economic indicators and demographic data by country are combined, allowing a three-dimensional analysis of billionaires and each country's economic and social environment. (2) Billionaires Statistics Dataset (2023) can be used to: • Wealth Distribution and Industry Analysis: Using billionaires' net worth, industry, and national data, we can analyze global wealth concentration and wealth distribution by industry and region. • A study linking demographics and economic indicators: Billionaire data can be combined with various economic and social indicators such as GDP, CPI, tax revenue, education, and life expectancy to be used for in-depth research on wealth formation, social background, ratio of self-made and inherited wealth, and regional characteristics.

According to the Hurun Global Rich List 2025, the United States housed the highest number of billionaires worldwide in 2025. In detail, there were *** billionaires living in the United States as of January that year. By comparison, *** billionaires resided in China. India, the United Kingdom, and Germany were also the homes of a significant number of billionaires that year. United States has regained its first place As the founder and exporter of consumer capitalism, it is no surprise that the United States is home to a large number of billionaires. Although China had briefly overtaken the U.S. in recent years, the United States has reclaimed its position as the country with the most billionaires in the world. Moreover, North America leads the way in terms of the highest number of ultra high net worth individuals – those with a net worth of more than ***** million U.S. dollars. The prominence of Europe and North America is a reflection of the higher degree of economic development in those states. However, this may also change as China and other emerging economies continue developing. Female billionaires Moreover, the small proportion of female billionaires does little to counter critics claiming the global economy is dominated by an elite comprised mainly of men. On the list of the 20 richest people in the world, only one was a woman. Moreover, recent political discourse has put a great amount of attention on the wealth held by the super-rich with the wealth distribution of the global population being heavily unequal.

As of March 2025, Elon Musk had a net worth valued at 328.5 billion U.S. dollars, making him the richest man in the world. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos followed in second, with Marc Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, in third. The list is dominated by Americans, and Alice Walton and Francoise Bettencourt Meyers are the only women among the 20 richest people worldwide.

Nearly half of the 3,323 billionaires worldwide in 2023 were between 50 and 70 years old. Moreover, more than 40 percent were above 70 years, whereas around 10 percent were below 50 years. A clear majority of the world's billionaires are men.

This article introduces an original dataset of formal political participation for over 2,000 individuals included in the Forbes Billionaires List. We find that billionaire politicians are a surprisingly common phenomenon: Over 11% of the world’s billionaires have held or sought political office. Even compared to other elite groups known for producing politicians from their ranks, this is a high rate of political participation. Moreover, billionaires focus their political ambitions on influential positions, have a strong track record of winning elections, and lean to the right ideologically. We also document substantial cross-national variation: A country’s number of billionaire politicians is not simply a product of its total number of billionaires but is instead related to regime type. Indeed, billionaires formally enter the political sphere at a much higher rate in autocracies than in democracies. We conclude by discussing the normative implications of our findings and outlining a new research agenda on billionaire politicians.

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The Original dataset had some incongruencies in the collection of the data for the feature "Source".

The feature "Source" aims at capturing the main origin of the billionaires' accumulated wealth. However, Forbes had adopted an inconsistent approach in collecting these data. When the source of wealth is connected with a popular or well-known company, then the Company name is reported (i.e. Amazon, Microsoft, Google and so forth). In other instances, the economic sector where the billionaire business operates is reported (i.e., software, machinery, food and beverage, and so forth).

For instance, Bill Gates' source of wealth is recorded as "Microsoft", while for Larry Ellison (founder of Oracle), the dataset mentions a generic "software". Jeff Bezos's source is Amazon, but e-commerce is the provenience of Jack Ma's wealth. This approach creates series of difficulties when aggregating the data. When billionaires are grouped by the "Source" as it appears in the original dataset, billionaires like Jeff Bezos or Jack Ma would be classified in two different buckets. However, they both operate in the same economic sector.

Therefore, the dataset was reviewed to standardize the "Source" entries. As a result, taking the first six wealthiest people in the world as an example, Amazon becomes e-commerce, Tesla is replaced by "electric vehicles", LVMH by "luxury good", Microsoft by "software", Facebook by "social media" and Berkshire Hathaway by "finance".

Acknowledgements Skimmed the data from forbes.com Based on the original dataset uploaded here by Alexander Bader : Link

In 2023, nearly ********** of the male billionaires were self-made, whereas less than ********** of female billionaires were the same. Around ** percent of the female billionaires in the world inherited their fortunes.

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Expanded my other dataset with geo data of the billionaires residency

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Skimmed the data from forbes.com Added coordinates with OpenCageGeocode

The highest number of billionaires in 2023 was found in North America, reaching over 1,100. They were closely followed by Europe and Asia, whereas the gap down to the other regions of the world was significant.

This data package includes the underlying data and files to replicate the calculations, charts, and tables presented in The Origins of the Superrich: The Billionaire Characteristics Database, PIIE Working Paper 16-1. If you use the data, please cite as: Freund, Caroline, and Sarah Oliver. (2016). The Origins of the Superrich: The Billionaire Characteristics Database. PIIE Working Paper 16-1. Peterson Institute for International Economics.

Graph and download economic data for Net Worth Held by the Top 0.1% (99.9th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) (WFRBLTP1246) from Q3 1989 to Q1 2025 about net worth, wealth, percentile, Net, and USA.

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In 2025, Bernard Arnault, CEO of LVMH, the world's leading luxury goods company, topped the Forbes ranking of leading French billionaires. The second billionaire of France was Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, with a wealth of nearly ** billion euros. Record profits for CAC40 companies In the first semester of 2022, the companies in the CAC40, the main index of the Paris stock exchange, had accumulated nearly ** billion euros in profit, which represents ** percent more than in the first half of 2021, and ** percent more than the first half of 2019. The companies with the largest profits in 2021 were Vivendi, with nearly ** billion euros, TotalEnergie (**** billion euros), and ArcelorMittal (**** billion euros).By the first half of 2022, CAC40 companies had also seen their revenues increase by an average of ** percent compared to the 2015-2019 period. For some companies, such as Stellantis, Essilor, or Worldline, this increase was even higher than *** percent.The main beneficiaries of these companies' dividends were the Arnault group, BlackRock, and the French State. Taxation and tax havens According to the Multinationals Observatory, the effective tax rate of the CAC40 has decreased between 2020 and 2021, from ***** percent to ***** percent. In other words, while the cumulative pre-tax profit of the CAC40 has tripled year on year, the tax paid has only doubled. The fair contribution of multinationals is a matter of debate in France, and in particular, the question of tax havens. The presence of large French groups in these jurisdictions with particularly low tax rates, or offering other advantageous conditions, although not necessarily providing evidence of illegal tax evasion, is an interesting indicator.In 2022, **** percent of CAC40 subsidiaries were located in tax havens. The energy company Engie had the most subsidiaries in these jurisdictions (), followed by LVMH (). However, Bernard Arnault's company had the largest proportion of subsidiaries registered in tax havens (almost a quarter).

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As of 2023, a majority of the world's billionaires had earned their wealth themselves. Nearly 2,000 of the total 3,323 billionaires worldwide that year had earned their fortune this way. Meanwhile, 314 billionaires had inherited their wealth. Additionally, about 87 percent of the world's billionaires were men.

According to the Hurun Global Rich List 2025, the city with the highest number of billionaires in 2025 was New York. In detail, *** billionaires resided in the American city. Furthermore, ** billionaires lived in London, while Shanghai had a billionaire population of ** individuals. New York was the only city in the world with more than 100 billionaires that year. Mega-cities of the world A large number of the world’s billionaires are concentrated in a select number of the world’s mega-cities. This has as much to do with the location of their wealth, business interests, and further earning potential, as does the quality of life in those cities. A look at the most significant industries in the global billionaire production line helps to explain the prominence of the traditional capitals of global business including New York, London and Hong Kong. The place of many Chinese cities on the list can in part be explained by the strong performance of industrial conglomerates from the country in recent years. Economic growth in China While New York is the city with the highest number of billionaires, China now boasts the most billionaires of any country in the world. However, ***** of the top ten wealthiest billionaires still came from the United States as of 2025.

Billionaires with a net worth over 50 billion U.S. dollars had a combined net worth of nearly two trillion dollars in 2023. Billionaires with a fortune of two to five billion U.S. dollars had the highest combined total wealth, nearly reaching three trillion U.S. dollars. That year, there were 18 persons with a fortune of over 50 billion dollars.

In 2023, Germany topped the list in Europe for the number of billionaire individuals living there, having more than double the number of billionaires in Italy and France.

Between April and July 2020, the wealth of billionaires in the health industries increased by **** percent. The industries which observed over ** percent wealth growth were industrials and technology.