Key Takeaways
- As of 2023, 2,775 billionaires worldwide with average age 66.
- 88% of billionaires are men as of 2024.
- The youngest billionaire in 2024 is 19-year-old Livia Voigt from Brazil.
- U.S. has 902 billionaires as of 2024, 32% of global total.
- Finance & Investments sector has 474 billionaires worth $2.4T in 2024.
- Tech industry produced 342 new billionaires since 2014.
- Warren Buffett donated $51 billion via Berkshire Hathaway since 2006.
- MacKenzie Scott gave away $14 billion since 2019 to 1,600+ nonprofits.
- Bill Gates has donated $59 billion through Gates Foundation by 2024.
- Number of global billionaires rose 19% to 2,043 from 2019-2021.
- 278 new billionaires minted in 2023, richest newcomers worth $1B+.
- Billionaire count doubled from 1,011 in 2009 to 2,043 in 2020.
- As of April 2024, the world's billionaires collectively hold $14.2 trillion in wealth, equivalent to 14.2% of global GDP.
- The richest 1% of billionaires control 48% of all billionaire wealth as of 2023.
- In 2023, the top 10 billionaires owned more wealth than the bottom 50% of the world's population.
Billionaires total 2,775 worldwide, largely self made, aging 66 on average, with wealth soaring in tech.
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