Fifteen places dominate as the “home” to the world’s billionaires and wealth, according to Wealth-X’s 2019 Billionaire Census report. <br /><br />The report analysed data from Wealth-X’s global database of more than one million records of the world’s richest people. Three-quarters of the world’s billionaires live in just 15 places, the data revealed.<br /><br />Collectively, the 1,942 billionaires in these places are worth US$6.8 trillion — that accounts for 79 per cent of the total global billionaire wealth in 2018. <br /><br />When it comes to where the wealthiest people are based, the United States dominates with 27 per cent of the world’s billionaires. <br /><br />The nation’s total number of billionaires rose from 2017 to 2018 by 4 percent to 705. Major European countries saw both falls and rises in the number of their billionaires, depending on economic factors. All the top Asia-Pacific countries – China, which includes Hong Kong, India, and Singapore – saw a decrease in billionaires and billionaire wealth because of a decline in equity markets, the report said.
