Countries with the Most Billionaires

Got 100%. What changed vs. last time? I assume China moved up in the rankings.

maybe some billionaires died and split up the children's inheritances to make 3 or 4 multi-millionaires.

With the last update looks like Israel slipped off the top of the list making room for... Singapore? I think the rest is the same.

I expect Saudi Arabia, too...and the UAE.

I did too, but then I read the top part. Citizen billionaires

The royal family of Saudi Arabia is one of the richest in the world but it's also huge. There are something like 30,000 AlSaud princes. Obviously the vast majority of them are not billionaires, though a few are. The population of the UAE is tiny.

I'm confused by kevlarkev's comment. Is this implication that the shiekhs of the UAE are not citizens of their own country?

I totally expected the UAE too. At least that's how I've interpreted the marketing of Dubai these last 15 years. That it was basically Switzerland on the Persian Gulf. Maybe it's full of billionaires with citizenship from other nations.

oh, yeah okay I get it. That's true, Dubai is trying to brand itself as the top vacation spot for the obscenely wealthy. But I don't think there are too many foreign wealthy people that live there on a full-time basis.

same the uae is very wealthy

It's possible to get 100% by just guessing... interesting though.

obviously some have to be guesses, what sort of person would know the top twenty countries that have the most billionaires.

Really all you have to do is avoid all of Africa and most of the Middle East and you should be fine.

and most of Latin America, too.

but not all of it haha.

Nice quiz. Easily completed.

100% with :05 to spare! It took me awhile to think of Turkey.

How is Taiwan's percentage lower than Israel's? I honestly didn't even think Israel would be on the list, but Taiwan was my second answer...

Israel is not on the list now.

Oh, man! I forgot Indonesia!

me too...only one

Surprised Qatar is not on here, it has the highest average income per person

But that average income is not anywhere close to being north of a billion dollars.

The more the nations money is spread out the less chance of billionaires, probably if everyone in the USA had a few hundred thousand dollars in the bank they wouldn't have so many billionaires.

I'm surprised to see China has 133 billionaires, clearly communism working as intended.

or they lied

Hardly.

nearly missed sweden

India, Israel and Turkey suprised me. But Switzerland? That's the poorest country in Europe so the fact might've been a little off. And Taiwan? That's part of China according to the United Nations.

I live in Switzerland...and we are probably the richest country in Europe apart from some Scandinavian ones. Also, Taiwan isn't part of China.

Switzerland... Moldova... everybody mixes those two up.

@Agreed with TinklePork, you can't make the most wildly inaccurate comment until you're at least level 60.

Israel is not on this list

... anymore.

Wow Turkey has 43?! I didn’t even think of Turkey...

Probably is Monaco...... they keep their worth secret for obvious reasons!

Turkey! Every single one of these lists I forget Turkey. It's not Europe. It's not Asia. It's not the MIddle East.

It's all three.

It's all right, Kim.

How could I forget Taiwan and SOuth Korea?

100% on second try.

Maybe the millionaires are short a few million to becoming billionaires.

Didn't think of Israel and Taiwan. South Korea slipped my mind

Italy of course! Lira billionaires a-plenty! Well, no, not any more. Damn the Euro!

You really think that Britishers did not steal anything from India?

I don't know what you're talking about. I've got a million krónur in my bank accounts. Granted, that's barely enough to buy a used car, but still, I'm an Icelandic millionnaire. And if I could find a bureau de change, I could be a Vietnamese millionnaire just on what's in my wallet. Granted, 1 000 000 đồng is about £30, but still.

I think it should specify in the instructions that 'billionaire' refers to the equivalent of 1,000,000,000 USD.

And think how many billionaires have been in Zimbabwe when Zimbabwean Dollar was still country's currency

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You'll need to move Spain up to #19 soon. I'm moving to Barcelona next year. :-P

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_the_number_of_US_dollar_billionaires

I was so busy trying to think of other countries, that I ended up missing my own country. The only one I missed! Very embarrassing.

And not one of them has become Batman.

Are you so sure about it?

George Clooney apparently has a net worth of $500 million. I'd say he's halfway there.

What about Nigeria? I've gotten tonnes of emails from Nigerian billionaires.

Are you sure they weren't asking for billions?

Sorry, China, communism machine broke

20/21 :( didn't get Turkey

Is this magic? Canada higher than France? Sweden and Turkey on the list? MINDBLOWN

*Greece

wow i'm surprised i got all of them

Tried to spell "Australia" in the last 3 seconds, Screwed up really badly.