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.

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.

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.

This statistic presents the American states with lowest ratio of millionaire households per capita in 2019. In 2019, Mississippi had the lowest ratio of millionaire households per capita in the country, with only 4.18 percent of households holding over one million U.S. dollars in assets.

In the third quarter of 2024, the top ten percent of earners in the United States held over 67 percent of total wealth. This is fairly consistent with the second quarter of 2024. Comparatively, the wealth of the bottom 50 percent of earners has been slowly increasing since the start of the 2010s, though remains low. Wealth distribution in the United States by generation can be found here.

Dataset Overview

This dataset joins live Forbes Real-Time Billionaires data (April 2026) with World Bank GDP and population figures to produce the first person-level and country-level wealth-to-economy intelligence dataset on Kaggle.

It captures 3,384 billionaires across 80 countries, holding a combined $19.64 trillion in wealth. Four engineered macro columns connect individual fortunes directly to national economies — something no existing Kaggle billionaire dataset has done.

Two files are included. The individual file covers every person. The country aggregate file summarises all 80 nations with separate macro intelligence columns, zero nulls, and full internal consistency between both files.

Key headline figures: - Elon Musk's net worth equals 2.78% of the entire US GDP - St. Kitts and Nevis: billionaire wealth = 860% of national GDP - Monaco: 51.77 billionaires per million people - $19.64 trillion in total global billionaire wealth - 66.6% of billionaires are self-made - Mean billionaire age: 65.3 years

Data Science Applications

• Wealth inequality modelling and Gini coefficient analysis
• Country-level macro correlation studies (GDP, population, wealth density)
• Industry dominance and HHI-based sector concentration analysis
• Gender and age distribution across wealth tiers
• Self-made vs inherited wealth classification
• Geospatial mapping of billionaire concentration by country and city
• Time-series comparison against prior Forbes annual snapshots
• Regression and clustering on wealth-to-GDP and per-capita columns

Column Descriptors

billionaire_individual_2026.csv — 3,384 rows × 25 columns

rank — Forbes real-time ranking position person_name — Full name as listed on Forbes gender — M / F age — Computed from Forbes birthDate field (98.6% coverage) birth_year — Year of birth derived from Unix timestamp country — Country of citizenship per Forbes iso3 — ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code wb_country_name — World Bank official country name state — US state only (non-US rows are null by design) city — City of residence net_worth_usd_m — Net worth in millions USD net_worth_usd — Net worth in absolute USD source_of_wealth — Primary wealth source per Forbes industries — All industries (pipe-delimited) primary_industry — Lead industry for aggregation self_made — Boolean — self-made (True) or inherited (False) wealth_gdp_ratio_pct — Individual net worth ÷ home country GDP × 100 wealth_per_citizen_usd — Net worth ÷ home country population wealth_country_share_pct — Share of total billionaire wealth within same country sector_dominance_score — HHI-based score (0–100) of industry concentration per country gdp_usd — World Bank GDP current USD (most recent year) population — World Bank total population (most recent year) gdp_year — Year of GDP figure used forbes_uri — Forbes profile URI slug scrape_timestamp — UTC timestamp of data collection

billionaire_country_aggregate_2026.csv — 80 rows × 23 columns

country_wealth_rank — Rank by total billionaire wealth descending country — Country name iso3 — ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code wb_country_name — World Bank official name billionaire_count — Total billionaires in country total_wealth_usd_m — Combined net worth in millions USD total_wealth_usd — Combined net worth in absolute USD mean_wealth_usd_m — Mean individual net worth (millions) median_wealth_usd_m — Median individual net worth (millions) max_wealth_usd_m — Wealthiest individual net worth (millions) top_billionaire — Name of wealthiest individual in country dominant_industry_by_wealth — Industry holding largest share of country billionaire wealth self_made_count — Number of self-made billionaires self_made_ratio_pct — Self-made billionaires as % of country total mean_age — Mean age of billionaires in country country_wealth_gdp_pct — Total billionaire wealth ÷ country GDP × 100 billionaires_per_million_pop — Billionaires per 1 million population wealth_concentration_tier — Categorical: Extreme / Very High / High / Moderate / Low gdp_per_billionaire_bn — GDP (billions) per billionaire sector_dominance_score — Country-level HHI industry concentration score gdp_usd — World Bank GDP current USD population — World Bank total population gdp_year — Year of GDP figure used

Provenance

Source 1 — Forbes Real-Time Billionaires API

Data collected via the Forbes Real-Time Billionaires JSON endpoint on April 10, 2026. Net worths reflect live market prices at time of collection. The Forbes annual list (March 1 snapshot) reports 3,428 billionaires at $20.1 trillion. This dataset captures 3,384 at $19.64 trillion — the difference reflects real market movements in early April 2026, during which approximately 44 individuals temporarily fell below the $1 billion threshold following equity market declines. All figures are authentic and unmodified.

Source 2 — World Bank Open Data API

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This statistic shows the ** countries with the most billionaires per capita in 2013. In 2013, Luxembourg topped the ranking with **** billionaires per capita.

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.

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In 2024, Switzerland led the ranking of countries with the highest average wealth per adult, with approximately ******* U.S. dollars per person. The United States was ranked second with an average wealth of around ******* U.S. dollars per adult, followed by Hong Kong SAR. However, the figures do not show the actual distribution of wealth. The Gini index shows wealth disparities in countries worldwide. Does wealth guarantee a longer life? As the adage goes, “money can’t buy you happiness,” yet wealth and income are continuously correlated to the quality of life of individuals in different countries around the world. While greater levels of wealth may not guarantee a higher quality of life, it certainly increases an individual’s chances of having a longer one. Although they do not show the whole picture, life expectancy at birth is higher in the wealthier world regions. Does money bring happiness? A number of the world’s happiest nations also feature in the list of those countries for which average income was highest. Finland, however, which was the happiest country worldwide in 2022, is missing from the list of the top twenty countries with the highest wealth per adult. As such, the explanation for this may be the fact that a larger proportion of the population has access to a high-income relative to global levels. Measures of quality of life Criticism of the use of income or wealth as a proxy for quality of life led to the creation of the United Nations’ Human Development Index. Although income is included within the index, it also has other factors taken into account, such as health and education. As such, the countries with the highest human development index can be correlated to those with the highest income levels. That said, none of the above measures seek to assess the physical and mental environmental impact of a high quality of life sourced through high incomes. The happy planet index demonstrates that the inclusion of experienced well-being and ecological footprint in place of income and other proxies for quality of life results in many of the world’s materially poorer nations being included in the happiest.

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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.

According to the Hurun Global Rich List 2025, the United States housed the highest number of billionaires worldwide in 2025. In detail, there were 870 billionaires living in the United States as of January that year. By comparison, 823 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 fifty 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 two 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, 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.

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.