Iceland was the country with the highest rate of millionaires worldwide in 2022, with more than ***percent of the adult population owning assets worth more than one million U.S. dollars. Luxembourg followed behind with ** percent of the population being millionaires, with Switzerland in third.

In 2024, there were nearly 24 million people with a net worth of over one million U.S. dollars in the United States, which put the country on the top of the ranking. China was ranked second in that year, with more than six million individuals with wealth exceeding one million U.S. dollars. France followed in third with around three million millionaires.

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.

In 2019, there were **** million millionaires in the United States. This makes the United States the country with the highest number of millionaires in the world. Japan is second, with **** million millionaires in 2019.

In 2024, China had more than *** million millionaires. In comparison, Japan recorded about *** million millionaires that year.

The statistic shows a projection on countries worldwide with the most millionaires in 2020. It is beeing forecasted that in 2020 the United States are going to have approximately *** million millionairs.

The statistic shows countries or regions preferred by surveyed Chinese millionaires for higher education abroad as of 2024. That year, about ** percent of surveyed millionaires in China chose the United States as the country to which they would send their children for undergraduate or higher level education.

In 2022, nearly ****** high net worth individuals (HNWIs) emigrated from China, the highest in the world that year. Moreover, ***** HNWIs left Russia that year. By comparison, ***** HNWIs emigrated from the United States.

This statistic shows the top ten countries with the most billionaires per capita in the world in 2015. In 2015, Monaco had the most billionaires per capita at 1 billionaire per 12,600 residents.

South Africa was home to the highest number of millionaires in Africa as of 2023. The country had ****** high net worth individuals (HNWIs), corresponding to roughly ********* of the total number of millionaires on the continent. Second, in rank, Egypt counted ****** HNWIs. According to the source, approximately ******* HNWIs lived in Africa, each with *** million U.S. dollars or more net assets, excluding government funds. The wealth value refers to assets such as cash, properties, and business interests held by individuals living in a country with fewer liabilities. The rich in Africa Compared to 2020, the number of African millionaires increased by nearly **** percent. This means that ****** people joined the group of individuals with minimum net assets of *** million U.S. dollars. The number of centi- and multimillionaires has increased as well. In 2022, the Nigerian Aliko Dangote held the title of the wealthiest person in Africa. Founder and chairman of Dangote Cement, the largest cement producer in the whole African continent, the billionaire also owns salt and sugar manufacturing companies. His net worth is estimated at nearly ** billion U.S. dollars. Trillions of U.S. dollars in riches Total private wealth in Africa amounted to *** trillion U.S. dollars in 2021, a slight increase from 2020. That year, the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic had led to job losses, drops in salaries, and the closure of many local businesses. Compared to other African countries, South Africa concentrated the largest private wealth. Egypt, Nigeria, Morocco, and Kenya completed the leading wealth markets. The five nations accounted for over ** percent of Africa’s total wealth in 2021.

Amongst the selected Latin American countries, Mexico registered the largest average wealth of billionaires, at 8.97 billion U.S dollars in 2020. By contrast, the rest of the adult population had an average wealth of 41,530 dollars. This represented a wealth ratio of billionaires/general population of 216,079:1. Nevertheless, it was Argentina the nation with the largest inequality in the distribution of wealth. Billionaires' wealth in this South American country was equal to 3.7 percent of the national GDP.

Through 2022 and 2023, inflation rates rose worldwide as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine in *************. This also had an impact on millionaires worldwide, with over **** million millionaires in the United States when using a nominal U.S. dollar, but **** when adjusting for inflation.

A survey conducted among Chinese high-net-worth individuals in 2025 revealed that around ** percent of respondents chose Sichuan cuisine as their favorite. Japanese food was the most preferred when it came to foreign cuisines.

The statistic shows the countries with high immigration rates of millionaires from China in 2013. 60 percent of Chinese millionaires surveyed have already emigrated or have made an application. In 2013, Singapore came in at 5th place with 13 percent of Chinese millionaires immigrating there.

The statistic displays the number of households that own net private wealth of at least one million euros in Europe as of 2014. The countries with the largest number of millionaire households include Germany (1.4 million of ultra-rich households) and France (1.3 million households).

The statistic displays the share of households that own net private wealth of at least one million euros in Europe as of 2014. The countries with the highest millionaire household shares include Luxembourg and Switzerland: 23 percent in Luxembourg and 13 percent in Switzerland.

In 2023, Germany had the highest number of billionaires in Europe and the third highest in the world at ***. The United Kingdom followed with *** billionaires, while Russia had ***. The United States was the country with the highest number of billionaires, followed by China.

This statistic presents the American states with highest ratio of millionaire households per capita in 2020. In that year, New Jersey had the highest ratio of millionaire households per capita in the country, with 9.76 percent of households holding over one million U.S. dollars in assets.

In 2023, ******* individuals with net assets of at least ** million U.S. dollars were residing in the *************, by far the highest number of any country. By comparison, *****, which had the second highest number of ultra high net worth individuals (UHNWIs), had less than 100,000 individuals with assets amounting to ** million U.S. dollars or more.Place of residence of ultra high net worth individuals The residency of almost half of the world’s ultra high net worth individuals in the United States explains the dominance of North America in regard to the number of ultra high net worth individuals by region. Hong Kong was the city with the most UHNWIs in 2022, followed by New York, London, and Los Angeles. Source of wealth and gender differences A majority of the world's UHNWIs are self-made. However, looking at billionaires, there is a clear difference between men and women; whereas a majority of billionaire men were self-made, a majority of the women had inherited their fortune.

This statistic illustrates the total wealth of billionaires in Europe from 2016 to 2018, broken down by selected countries. It can be seen as of 2018, the total wealth of billionaires in Germany stood at a value of *** billion U.S. dollars, an decrease of approximately ** billion from the previous year. This made Germany the country in Europe with the highest billionaire wealth at that time. Russia and the Switzerland made up the rest of the top three, with *** billion U.S. dollars and *** billion U.S. dollars respectively in billionaire wealth as of 2018.