Monaco & UK to lead global billionaire population growth in the coming years
There are now more than 500,000 Ultra-High Net Worth individuals on the planet, says Knight Frank as it charts shifting patterns in the world's super-rich landscape for its flagship annual research offering, The Wealth Report.
The global billionaire population grew by 8.5% in 2019, reaching an all-time high
Over 10% of the world's billionaires have donated something towards the fight against Covid-19 so far, according to some research by Wealth-X.
The world’s millionaire population is set to grow by more than third in the next five years
Credit Suisse expects the global millionaire population to reach almost 63 million in 2024, while the number of UHNWIs will jump from 56,000 today to 234,000 in five years' time
Covid-19 has ‘brought to an immediate halt the unbroken upward trend in global HNW growth over the past decade’
Dollar millionaires now control nearly a third of the world's total private wealth, reports Wealth-X, after "a decade, and more, of plenty" - a period that has been ended by the pandemic.