China is the first country to have more than 1,000 billionaires

The second place is occupied by the United States, with 696, while the third corresponds to the India (177), followed by Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland Yes Russia, home to 141, 134, 100 and 85 billionaires respectively, according to the Hurun Rich List 2021.

“Despite the disruption caused by Covid-19, this year has seen the biggest increase in wealth in the past decade”, Rupert Hoogewerf, chairman and chief investigator of Hurun Report, explained in the report.

He stressed that “the world has never seen so much wealth created in a single year”.

Last year eight new billionaires were generated per week, mainly due to the stock market boom.

Three people will add more than $ 50 billion in 2020, led by Elon musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, whose fortune increased by $ 151 billion.

They follow him Jeff Bezos, from Amazon, and Colin Huang, from Pinduoduo, who increased their assets by $ 50,000 million each.

The list highlights that despite the trade war with the United States, in 2020 China added more billionaires than the rest of the countries combined, and the difference with the North American country has grown further.

Yes indeed, Over the past five years, the Asian giant has added 490 billionaires compared to 160 in the United States.