13 Interesting Facts About World’s Billionaires That Will Blow Your Mind

A billionaire is someone whose wealth is worth at least one billion units of a given currency, usually a major currency such as the Euro or U.S. dollar. They say, the rich are getting richer and it’s true. The world’s richest 1% of people own more wealth than the rest of humanity all around the world. The list of the world’s richest people can vary from year to year depending on their net worth and financial performance each year.

Here are few things you probably didn’t know about billionaires!

1. There are 2755 billionaires in the world as of March 2021.

2. Their combined net worth is $8 trillion in the 2020 list.

3. That makes their wealth more than 60% of the entire world’s population.

4. If you earn $100,000 a month, by 2853 you can be a billionaire.

5. Jeff Bezos is the world’s richest person for the fourth year running, worth $177 billion. The CEO of Amazon makes $2,489 every second.

6. Billionaires spend around $80 million dollars in a year.

7. The net worth of the world’s richest woman, with a  $73.6 billion is Françoise Bettencourt Meyers

She inherited her fortune from her mother whose father, Eugene Schueller, founded cosmetics giant L’Oréal.

8. 4 billion of the world’s poorest people have less wealth than the world’s 8 richest people.

9. The most common first jobs for billionaires were software developer, salesperson, a stock trader and analyst.

10. Most of the billionaires, 92 to be precise live in New York City than any other city in the world

11. The first female author to become a billionaire was JK Rowling.

She joined the club in 2004 but fell off it due to donations she made to different organizations.

12. The inheritance that the world’s 500 richest people will pass down over the next 20 years is estimated to be about $2.4 trillion.

13. The  co-founder of the Duty-Free Shoppers Group, Chuck Feeney, secretly gave away $9 billion dollars over the years.

The news became headlines after a business dispute led to the revelation that Chuck was trying to go broke by giving all his money away in philanthropic efforts.

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