Global Rich List 2016: where do the most billionaires live in the world?

Beijing took New York away the title of world capital of billionaires, reports the institute's latest study Hurun (Hurun Global Rich List 2016), published in the specialized Chinese magazine Hurun Report. The number of billionaires in Beijing rose by 32, while New York only got four new ones in 2015 and had to with 95 billionaires, which is five less than Beijing now has, to hand over the title of the world's capital of billionaires. She landed in third place Moscow, where 66 billionaires live.

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"Despite the slowdown of the economy and falling prices on the stock market, last year China got more billionaires than any other country in the world," he accompanied the results Rupert Hoogewerf, manager and principal investigator for the journal Hurun. Indeed, when we look at the broader picture, i.e. from the point of view of the countries, the Chinese have surpassed the Americans here as well, because China now has 568 billionaires, 90 more than in the previous report and 33 more than the US, which lost two (535) compared to 2014. And who leads the list of billionaires in China? Wang Jianlin, a real estate mogul who is on Hurun's absolute list of the richest people in the world in 21st place. His property is valued at 26 billion US dollars. Among the billionaires from China, it is worth mentioning Jack May, the founder of the Chinese corporation Alibaba, and the heads of Internet giants Tencent and Baidu.

The world was alive in 2015 2188 billionaires (this is a record), which is 99 more than the year before. The total wealth of the billionaires is estimated at 7.3 billion US dollars, which is more than the GDP of Germany and Great Britain combined! And speaking of Great Britain. London is the European city with the most billionaires in the world. It has around 50 and shares fifth place with Shanghai. In total, Europe (excluding Russia) has 355 billionaires.