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.

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Over ** million individuals residing in the United States belonged to the global top one percent of ultra-high net worth individuals worldwide in 2022. China ranked second, with over **** million top one percent wealth holders globally. France followed in third.

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In 2023, by far the highest number of individuals with net assets of at least ** million U.S. dollars worldwide were residing in North America, reaching over ******* people. Asia recorded the second highest number of UHNWIs in the world with over ******* individuals.A small share owns vast sums of wealthThe vast majority of global wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few people. Only *** percent of the global population owns assets worth more than *** million U.S. dollars. The richest people in the world are Elon Mask, Jeff Bezos, and Bernard Arnault. When it comes to women, Francoise Bettencourt Meyers led the ranking of the most affluent women worldwide. The wealth of over ** percent of UHNWIs was self-made. Where UHNWIs live and where they leave Unsurprisingly, as North America is the world region with the highest number of UHNWIs, the United States is the country with the highest UHNWI count. However, Hong Kong, special administrative (SAR) region in China, is the city with the highest number of UHNWIs. Nevertheless, China was the country that recorded the highest outflux of UHNWIs in 2022.

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.

With a net worth of 342 billion U.S. dollars, Elon Musk, the cofounder of seven companies, such as electric car maker Tesla and the rocket producer SpaceX, was the wealthiest man in the world in March 2025. The wealthiest people in the world Marc Zuckerberg, the cofounder of Meta Platforms, came second with a wealth of 235.6 billion U.S. dollars. Amazon-founder Jeff Bezos followed in third. All the 10 richest people in the world were men. Wealth distribution worldwide As of 2022, one percent of people held nearly half of the world's combined wealth. Moreover, 2.8 billion of the world's population hold a combined wealth of less than 10,000 U.S. dollars, compared to 59 million people having a combined wealth of 1 billion dollars or more, underlining the vast inequalities around the world. Where do the most affluent people live? Most millionaires live in the United States, while Hong Konk was the city hosting the largest number of high net worth individuals worldwide. The country with the highest number of billionaires is China.

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In 2023, there were nearly 22 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. The United Kingdom followed in third with around three million millionaires.

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United States NCB: Balance Sheet: Total Liabilities & Net Worth data was reported at 44,111.506 USD bn in Mar 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 44,027.747 USD bn for Dec 2017. United States NCB: Balance Sheet: Total Liabilities & Net Worth data is updated quarterly, averaging 7,351.315 USD bn from Dec 1951 (Median) to Mar 2018, with 266 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 44,111.506 USD bn in Mar 2018 and a record low of 500.818 USD bn in Dec 1951. United States NCB: Balance Sheet: Total Liabilities & Net Worth data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Federal Reserve Board. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.AB077: Integrated Macroeconomic Accounts: Nonfinancial Corporate Business.

New Jersey has the highest rate of millionaires, with 9.76% of households showing a net worth of $1 million or above. That means that 246,058 New Jersey households are millionaires.

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.

Analysis of ‘World's Billionaires’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/seriadiallo1/world-billionaires on 14 February 2022.

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The richest people in the world, yearly rank from 2002 to 2021

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The World's Billionaires is an annual ranking by documented net worth of the world's wealthiest billionaires compiled and published in March annually by the American business magazine Forbes. The list was first published in March 1987. The total net worth of each individual on the list is estimated and is cited in United States dollars, based on their documented assets and accounting for debt. Royalty and dictators whose wealth comes from their positions are excluded from these lists. This ranking is an index of the wealthiest documented individuals, excluding and ranking against those with wealth that is not able to be completely ascertained. (wikipedia)

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United States Net Worth: HH & Nonprofit Inst Serving Households data was reported at 1,028.347 USD bn in Mar 2018. This records a decrease from the previous number of 2,473.834 USD bn for Dec 2017. United States Net Worth: HH & Nonprofit Inst Serving Households data is updated quarterly, averaging 173.355 USD bn from Dec 1951 (Median) to Mar 2018, with 266 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3,124.052 USD bn in Dec 1999 and a record low of -4,182.545 USD bn in Dec 2008. United States Net Worth: HH & Nonprofit Inst Serving Households data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Federal Reserve Board. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.AB074: Integrated Macroeconomic Accounts: Total Economy and Sectors: Selected Aggregates.

United States RW: Balance Sheet: Total Liabilities & Net Worth data was reported at 26,900.849 USD bn in Mar 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 26,896.662 USD bn for Dec 2017. United States RW: Balance Sheet: Total Liabilities & Net Worth data is updated quarterly, averaging 684.852 USD bn from Dec 1951 (Median) to Mar 2018, with 266 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 26,900.849 USD bn in Mar 2018 and a record low of 17.154 USD bn in Dec 1951. United States RW: Balance Sheet: Total Liabilities & Net Worth data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Federal Reserve Board. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.AB081: Integrated Macroeconomic Accounts: Rest of the World.

United States - Rest of the World; Total Liabilities and Net Worth (IMA), Level was 56625129.00000 Mil. of $ in October of 2024, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Rest of the World; Total Liabilities and Net Worth (IMA), Level reached a record high of 56625129.00000 in October of 2024 and a record low of 12328.00000 in October of 1946. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Rest of the World; Total Liabilities and Net Worth (IMA), Level - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on June of 2025.

In the first quarter of 2024, almost two-thirds percent of the total wealth in the United States was owned by the top 10 percent of earners. In comparison, the lowest 50 percent of earners only owned 2.5 percent of the total wealth. Income inequality in the U.S. Despite the idea that the United States is a country where hard work and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps will inevitably lead to success, this is often not the case. In 2023, 7.4 percent of U.S. households had an annual income under 15,000 U.S. dollars. With such a small percentage of people in the United States owning such a vast majority of the country’s wealth, the gap between the rich and poor in America remains stark. The top one percent The United States follows closely behind China as the country with the most billionaires in the world. Elon Musk alone held around 219 billion U.S. dollars in 2022. Over the past 50 years, the CEO-to-worker compensation ratio has exploded, causing the gap between rich and poor to grow, with some economists theorizing that this gap is the largest it has been since right before the Great Depression.

Data from the Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report shows that in 2023 there were just under 30 million millionaires in the US.

United States Net Worth: Rest of the World data was reported at 110.729 USD bn in Mar 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of -59.927 USD bn for Dec 2017. United States Net Worth: Rest of the World data is updated quarterly, averaging -0.163 USD bn from Dec 1951 (Median) to Mar 2018, with 266 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 905.522 USD bn in Sep 2008 and a record low of -420.115 USD bn in Jun 2009. United States Net Worth: Rest of the World data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Federal Reserve Board. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.AB074: Integrated Macroeconomic Accounts: Total Economy and Sectors: Selected Aggregates.