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Frankfurt. Billionaires in dollars around the world are getting richer and richer. Growing equity markets, rising real estate prices and diversified economic growth have increased the wealth of the world's richest people by 19% in 2017 to a record $ 8.9 trillion. This is the result of calculations by the consulting firm PwC and the Swiss bank UBS.
This huge fortune – the sum is more than double the total annual economic output of Germany and the largest economy in Europe – is therefore distributed over 2158 men and women. On average, they reach a fortune of 4.1 billion dollars. The previous year, the global number of billionaires was based on the now extended database of 1979. Available figures, which are available for the fifth time, include all badets: corporations, corporations, private real estate, but also art collections.
In China especially, the trend has been on the rise for years. In 2017, the Chinese super-rich were the main beneficiaries of global growth, with a 39% increase in wealth, which stood at $ 1.12 trillion. 373 Chinese, the study currently counts for the club of billionaires after 318 a year earlier. On average, at the age of 55, they are younger than the average global billionaire, at nearly 64 years old.
"We have been witnessing for years a development of the Western world until Asia," says Caroline Kuhnert, who manages UBS business with wealthy clients, especially Europeans. "On average, there were 2107 three new billionaires a week, including two Chinese." The UBS / PwC study also finds a growing trend to billionaires who are now part of the super-rich club with a good business idea: of the 332 mountaineers in 2017, 199 were autonomous billionaires, including 89 came from China,
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