More than 31,000 people joined the ranks of the “ultra-wealthy” last year as the fortunes of the already very rich benefitted from rising global stock markets and increased property prices.
The number of ultra-high net worth individuals (UHNWIs) – those with assets of more than $30m – rose by 6% last year to 513,244. That means there are more ultra-wealthy people around the world than the populations of Iceland, Malta or Belize. Almost half of the UHNWIs were in the US (where there are 240,000 people with more than $30m) the countries with the fastest-growing numbers of ultra-wealthy are in Asia and Africa. The UK’s UHNWI population increased to 14,400, putting the UK in sixth-place behind the US, China (61,600), Germany (23,000), France (18,800) and Japan (17,000).
There are now 50m dollar millionaires, up from 46.9m in 2019. That’s more than the population of Spain.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/mar/04/the-super-rich-another-31000-people-join-the-ultra-wealthy-elite