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.

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 2020, the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metropolitan area in California had the highest share of millionaire households of any U.S. metropolitan area, with **** percent of all households having at least *** million U.S. dollars in investible assets.

In 2022, ****** was home to the highest number of millionaires, followed by India’s capital New Delhi, and the IT capital - Bengaluru. This comes as no surprise since all three cities have the largest share of high net worth households along with a booming economic outlook. Overall, India had around *** billionaires as of March 2023, and ranked third globally in terms of its ultra-net-worth individuals. A growing wealth gap Despite this, India also has a very high wealth inequality with millions of people living below the poverty line. In fact, according to the last census, the state of Maharashtra (with Mumbai as its capital city) had the highest number of slums across the country with over *** million households. Furthermore, according to a 2015 study on the geography of the super-rich, Bangalore was ranked first in terms of the inequality between its rich and poor, with the wealth of the city’s billionaires being ******* times that of the average per capita GDP in the city. Mumbai came second in this listing, while Delhi was ranked fifth. It's a rich man's world As of 2018, the richest ** percent of Indians owned **** percent of the country’s wealth. The Indian economy was also seen to be one of the fastest growing economies across the world. This indicates the level of unequal distribution of wealth in the country. This is a matter of grave concern and has several implications in terms of the country’s development and progress.

As of 2020, New Jersey had the highest share of households with a net worth of *********** or more U.S. dollars in the United States, followed by Maryland, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Hawaii.

In 2016, around **** percent of all White families in the United States had a net worth of *********** U.S. dollars or more. This compares to only *** percent of Black families.

A dataset listing the 20 richest counties in Georgia for 2024, including information on rank, county, population, average income, and median income.

A dataset listing the 20 richest counties in Florida for 2024, including information on rank, county, population, average income, and median income.

The world's richest people owned on average about **** homes in 2024. Ultra High Net Worth Individuals (UHNWIs) owned the most homes in Latin America- an average of * residential properties per person. In North-America, this figure was the lowest, at *** - properties per person.

In 2023, there were estimated to be approximately ***** dollar millionaires among the adult population of the United Kingdom (UK), compared to ***** in the previous year.

The statistic shows the distribution of U.S. millionaires in 2013, by race and ethnicity. As of 2013, about ** percent of U.S. millionaires were White/Caucasian.

Additional information on racial income inequality

The issue of racial inequality in regards to income and wealth has been a problem through the entirety of the history of the United States. The statistic above demonstrates how the percentage of millionaires that identify as Black/African Americans is disproportionate to the share of the population overall. While the disproportionate number of millionaires demonstrates an undesirable degree of income inequality it is at the bottom of the wealth ladder within American society that the issue is most pressing. The overrepresentation of African Americans in contrast to the population in unemployment statistics are cause for concern on the part of the government and society as a whole. In 2014, nearly ** percent of surveyed families who placed themselves in the income bracket of under *** thousand dollars identified as black.

The percentage of non-white female business owners perhaps demonstrates that barriers to wealth exist but are diminished in unison. As barriers to wealth generation are removed for women, similar barriers are also being broken to allow for greater equality in the economic opportunities offered across the population of the United States. A central issue for policy makers is the time delay associated with policies aimed at reversing these inequalities. This was reflected in the 2015 Democratic and Republican presidential primary campaigns. Despite many major candidates discussing the issue none put forward meaningful proposals to address the problem. Even Senator Bernie Sanders who made addressing income inequality the cornerstone failed to separate the issue from income inequality generally. However, the global attention gained by movements such as ‘Black Lives Matter’ shows issues of racial inequality are prominent in the discourse of sections of the wider population if not forming a cornerstone of the political discourse in the United States.

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. recently, 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 richest people in the world, only *** were women. 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 2016, there were five thousand millionaires in Sri Lanka. This figure was estimated to reach ** thousand by 2026. In comparison, the country had ** ultra high net worth individuals (UHNWI) and ** centa-millionaires in that year. In 2018, there were about **** million millionaires, also called high net worth individuals (HNWI), in the Asia Pacific region.

Richest people in Sri Lanka

One of Sri Lankan’s richest people is Dhammika Pereras, a businessman who is owning about ** companies in various sectors and whose estimated fortune amounts to *** million U.S. dollars. He is followed by Sohli and Rusi captain, a family that is the largest shareholder of John Keells Holdings and Chemical Industries Colombo with a fortune of around *** million U.S. dollars.

Sri Lanka

The population in Sri Lanka amounted to approximately **** million in 2017. Sri Lanka’s economy has been developing in the past years, with a GDP growing at **** percent in 2017. Sri Lanka’s largest sector in terms of GDP contribution is the services sector. About ***** percent of the employees were active in the services sector in 2018. The government was able to reduce the poverty level in the past years. Nevertheless, the country’s GDP per capita is still only relatively moderate compared to other Asia Pacific countries.

In 2023, roughly 1.49 billion adults worldwide had a net worth of less than 10,000 U.S. dollars. By comparison, 58 million adults had a net worth of more than one million U.S. dollars in the same year. Wealth distribution The distribution of wealth is an indicator of economic inequality. The United Nations says that wealth includes the sum of natural, human, and physical assets. Wealth is not synonymous with income, however, because having a large income can be depleted if one has significant expenses. In 2023, nearly 1,700 billionaires had a total wealth between one to two billion U.S. dollars. Wealth worldwide China had the highest number of billionaires in 2023, with the United States following behind. That same year, New York had the most billionaires worldwide.

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.

Between September 2024 and August 2025, Chinese billionaire Li Ping and Liao Mei donated 1.1 billion yuan to charity, more than any other philantropist in Greater China. Mr Li is a co-founder of CATL, a Chinese battery manufacturer and technology company

In 2021, the population with high and ultra-high net worth in Russia increased relative to the previous year, measuring at approximately ***** thousand and *** thousand individuals, respectively, For 2026, the estimates forecast a further increase.

Average income in Russia

The average per capita monthly income in Russia has been gradually increasing, estimated at nearly **** thousand Russian rubles in 2021. The largest share, or over one quarter of the employed population, earned between ** thousand and ** thousand Russian rubles per month in 2021.

Russia’s super rich

Less than six percent of Russians had a monthly income of over 100 thousand Russian rubles in 2021. Among them were members of the Bakalchuk family, the richest in the country by total compound assets. The total wealth of its members, who managed the e-commerce company Wildberries, was estimated at **** billion U.S. dollars as of July 2021. To compare, the total declared income of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin was reported at about ** million Russian rubles in 2020.