David Thomson and family had a total net worth of 72.7 billion U.S. dollars, representing the richest in Canada in 2024. Changpeng Zhao, co-founder and executive chairman of Binance, is the second-richest person in Canada, with a net worth of 63.7 U.S. dollars.

This table presents income shares, thresholds, tax shares, and total counts of individual Canadian tax filers, with a focus on high income individuals (95% income threshold, 99% threshold, etc.). Income thresholds are geography-specific; for example, the number of Nova Scotians in the top 1% will be calculated as the number of taxfiling Nova Scotians whose total income exceeded the 99% income threshold of Nova Scotian tax filers. Different definitions of income are available in the table namely market, total, and after-tax income, both with and without capital gains.

In 2025, Luxembourg was the country with the highest gross domestic product per capita in the world. Of the 20 listed countries, 13 are in Europe and five are in Asia, alongside the U.S. and Australia. There are no African or Latin American countries among the top 20. Correlation with high living standards While GDP is a useful indicator for measuring the size or strength of an economy, GDP per capita is much more reflective of living standards. For example, when compared to life expectancy or indices such as the Human Development Index or the World Happiness Report, there is a strong overlap - 14 of the 20 countries on this list are also ranked among the 20 happiest countries in 2024, and all 20 have "very high" HDIs. Misleading metrics? GDP per capita figures, however, can be misleading, and to paint a fuller picture of a country's living standards then one must look at multiple metrics. GDP per capita figures can be skewed by inequalities in wealth distribution, and in countries such as those in the Middle East, a relatively large share of the population lives in poverty while a smaller number live affluent lifestyles.

In 2021, Canadians who were neither part of a visible minority nor the Indigenous population had an average total income at least ***** Canadian dollars higher than these population categories. The visible minorities with the highest average total income that year were people of Chinese, Latin American and Arab origin. Conversely, those with the lowest incomes were other visible minorities and the Native population.

This statistic depicts the median annual family income in Canada in 2021, distinguished by province. In 2021, the median annual family income in Alberta was 106,960 Canadian dollars.

As of August 2021, Daniel Craig was the best-paid actor worldwide with an estimated income of 100 million U.S. dollars after, earlier that year, Netflix bought the rights for two sequels of "Knives Out" (2019). The sum includes an estimated back-end box office participation, considering how much each movie released on streaming would have grossed in theaters. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson followed with 50 million dollars after Amazon Studios acquired the rights for his upcoming film "Red One."

The most bankable movie stars When it comes to blockbusters on the big screen – as opposed to subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services – some actors played protagonists in so many lucrative films that they were ranked based on the cumulative box office gross of the highlights in their filmography. Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, and Tom Hanks were among the highest-grossing leading actors of all time in the United States and Canada as of mid-2022. Movies starring each of them collectively amassed more than five billion dollars at the North American box office, a term that excludes Mexico and includes Canada and the U.S.

Big-budget productions and lower salaries Hollywood is also famous for producing some of the most expensive film productions worldwide, including installments of franchises such as Pirates of the Caribbean, Avengers, and Star Wars. However, not all the personnel benefits from the increasing budgets. The average hourly earnings of employees in the motion picture and sound recording industries in the U.S. decreased by three percent in 2021.