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Millionaires Account For More Than 10% Of All Households In These Countries
When one thinks of millionaires and billionaires, the countries USA, China and UK usually come to mind. And while in terms of absolute numbers of millionaires and ultra high net worth individuals (those with more than $100 million in assets) this would be correct (and since these countries also have the greatest number of poor people too, it merely confirms the record gap between the rich and poor), a very different view emerges when observing the world's uber wealthy not on an absolute but relative basis. In that case, when ranked by millionaires as a proportion of the population, the top three nations are Qatar, Switzerland and Singapore where millionaires account for more than 10% of all households, while a ranking of the most UHNW individuals per 100,000 households gives Hong Kong, Switzerland and Austria in the top three spots.
From Boston Consulting Group
As the debate over the global polarization of wealth rages on, one thing is certain: more people are becoming wealthy. The total number of millionaire households (in U.S. dollar terms) reached 16.3 million in 2013, up strongly from 13.7 million in 2012 and representing 1.1 percent of all households globally. The U.S. had the highest number of millionaire households (7.1 million), as well as the highest number of new millionaires (1.1 million). Robust wealth creation in China was reflected by its rise in millionaire households from 1.5 million in 2012 to 2.4 million in 2013, surpassing Japan. Indeed, the number of millionaire households in Japan fell from 1.5 million to 1.2 million, driven by the 15 percent fall in the yen against the dollar.
The highest density of millionaire households was in Qatar (175 out of every 1,000 house-holds), followed by Switzerland (127) and Singapore (100). The U.S. had the largest number of billionaires, but the highest density of billionaire households was in Hong Kong (15.3 per million), followed by Switzerland (8.5 per million).
Wealth held by all segments above $1 million is projected to grow by at least 7.7 percent per year through 2018, compared with an average of 3.7 percent per year in segments below $1 million. Ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) households, those with $100 million or more, held $8.4 trillion in wealth in 2013 (5.5 percent of the global total), an increase of 19.7 percent over 2012. At an expected CAGR of 9.1 percent over the next five years, UHNW households are projected to hold $13.0 trillion in wealth (6.5 percent of the total) by the end of 2018.
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R > G, Bitchez....
Zimbabwe FTMFW.
pods
When Obama was talking about "tax the rich" a while back, this is what he meant. People are so gullible.
I bet the serfs can't wait until they are in the top tax brackets, as W2, making all those bennie-bucks...
Regards,
Cooter
cant wait till i make my first million. of course, that will be minimum wage by then. were so fucked.
Um, where is Peru? Ah, sorry, misread the chart!
/s
A million dollars isn't very much anymore.
Properly invested is a broad array of assets (some gold, some land, some stocks with some for growth and some for income, some bonds, etc), you'll at best net $25K-30K per year in inflation protected income with that million. That's less than benefits in California.
Yes, but even $250,000 invested more-or-less like the above puts such an American WAY ahead of a California moocher. I do not want government services, I suspect, amigo zaphod, that you do not either.
.gov bennies will die before long.
Agreed, those that rely on benefits will have no understanding on how to survive after the .gov benefits dry up (which they will). The problem is the majority will go after those who saved and prepared for this eventuality, with the argument that redistribution is "fair".
That is why assets outside of the system are so attractive, gold and bitcoin can be protected to an extent. Land, stocks, bond only as long as the rule of law prevails.
+ $55,000
But, which will get there first, Au or BTC?
Hmm..., "Diversification" (my middle name) would suggest having some of each!
Pb and delivery devices would help with that lack of "rule of law" stuff if it comes to that...
Prime objective of Federal Reserve is making majority of citizenry millionaire... while make elite 1% googleplex quadrillionaire.
Does this include primary residence or exclude? Would be interesting to see it without the overinflated asset factored in.
the Japanese number is incredibly misleading because it's so volatile
between summer '12 and summer '13, Japan lost about 1,300,000 millionaires, which would be a 50% drop if the above number is correct or roughly 100x more than any other country in the same period. that is despite that period have a Nikkei stable for half and very bullish for the other half. that's because similar to China (but not as much) most rich Japanese invest little or nothing in the stock market. it's mostly all government bonds or hardest assets. so between Japanese debt affecting bonds and the weakening FX rate of the yen, whether it's the above Japanese number that ZH mentioned or the Credit Suisee report I am refering, the Japanese number of millionaires TODAY is likely very different than both
oh, and I guarantee the Chinese number is very underreported. most government millionaires keep a lot of cash and also assets spread out between different households, and most business owners do the same but using various business entities while keeping their capital in 'goods' that are not liquid such as inventory (as much as possible) so that they can flood the import/export docks as much as possible to 'game' the trade system even more -- they'll use every ounce of liqudity for that.
lastly, a further significant amount will not show up because it's all with their satellite princelings and princesses in Canada, Austrialia, USA, UK ... that in itself will be millions. you go to most any big university in Vancouver, Sydney, California, etc, there will be 100s and 100s of millionionaires (technically, based on the 100k or 200k in their savings, their ferrari or porsche, and likely at least a 50% down payment on a house) -- all that cash and assets will also not show up in the data. at the very least, there will be 1000s of students that likely have at least 100-200k USD in assets (if not quite a million)
point is, japanese number is probably even lower now, and the chinese number much higher... and if the yuan ever gets to 4/1 usd and vancouver/sydney/london/siliconvalley real estate increase another 10-30%, then much much much higher
Exactly, pods.
If you converted their million into gold, and then back into pre-1932 dollars, these people would have been called thousandaires.
That doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
What percentage of Zerohedgers would be millionaires if the criminals would stop suppressing the price of precious metals?
1 out of every 17 households in the USA are Millionaires???!!!
I call BS!!!
How do you define "millionaire'? Does that mean having over $1 million in debt?
I had the exact same thought and just assumed they meant "one million in assets" without netting out liabilities/etc.
Regards,
Cooter
The minimum wage in 1964 was $1.25.
http://causalitysend.mee.nu/images/buck25.JPG
That would be over $19/hr today. It wouldn't just be ZH commenters.
The table is worthless. Japan has more billionaires and the richest families on the planet. Their culture doesn't admire ostentatious displays of wealth unlike ours but their industrialists and real estate moguls are beyond rich.
Of course, a million bucks ain't what it used to be. In 1990 it was ten good houses. Now it is only one or, if you're lucky, two.
In 1900 a million bucks was almost 50,000 ounces of gold. Not so much today.
Cue Dr Evil and "ONE ... MILLION ... DOLLARS!!!!"
It's way past my bed time so please, can someone else put the link up? You know you want to!
actually, the numbers above are non assets related. millionaires by liquid assets.
Workers at Boston Consulting Group are IBD's rejects.
Yes. This is pure bull shit. Assets but not liabilities or some such idiocy.
Why post this crap?
its impossible that there are only 388 UHNWI households in Switzerland with a net worth of 100mm plus. Look at the luxury housing prices, jets, yachts, art, etc. It is impossible that I know 10% of them, there must be way over a 1'000 of them, bringing down the ratio to a reasonable 2-3%. I guess that,s the case in any country.
That table needs "thinning down".
Everybody on the list eventually goes into the hole with zero assets amd zero liabilities.
Just in case you're keeping score.
I'll tell my poor friends to use that on the probate judge when their parents croak...
if you're keeping score ......he who enters the most holes wins
...witch / which millionaires / billionaires were responsible for this... (just following orders, eh?)
Canadian Eskimo Dog
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Eskimo_Dog
The Canadian Eskimo Dog is an Arctic breed of working dog (Canis lupus familiaris), which is often considered to be one of North America's oldest and rarest remaining purebred indigenous domestic canines.[2] Other names include qimmiq[3] or qimmit[4] (Inuit language word for "dog"). The breed is currently threatened with extinction, with a 2008 estimate of only 300 purebred dogs.[5] Although once used as the preferred method of transportation by Inuit in the Canadian Arctic, by the 1960s traditional working dog teams became increasingly rare in the North. Contributing factors to the breed's decline include the increasing popularity of snowmobiles for transportation and the spread of infectious canine diseases.[4][6]
Controversy surrounds the intentional destruction of a debated number of Inuit sled dogs between 1950 and 1970 by The Royal Canadian Mounted Police as well as recent efforts to increase the breed's population.
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Controversies
RCMP dog killings
Between 1950 and 1970, The Royal Canadian Mounted Police intentionally destroyed Inuit sled dogs. Estimates of the number of dogs killed range from 1,200 to 20,000. Some tribal elders have alleged that this destruction was conducted in order to intimidate Intuits and to intentionally disrupt their way of life.[24] In response to these allegations, in 2005 the RCMP conducted an internal investigation on the killings. Its report concluded that dogs were indeed killed, but for public health purposes - to remove sick, dangerous, and suffering animals. However, the report also concluded that the RCMP rarely followed ordinances that required dogs to first be captured and owners to be notified before killings, that owners had no recourse against unreasonable killings, and that the justification for killings were not always explained to the Intuit. The report denies that any dogs were killed as part of a plot against the Inuit. The Qikiqtani Inuit Association denounced the report as “biased, flawed and incomplete.”[4][25][26]
Notice all of the top countries have central banks who espouse to the CTRL-P philosophy.
What a fucking joke.
I also notice all the bottom countries hold the "Control P" even harder
WTF, millioniare? Does that include the trash at 1 million together with the obviously superior humans at (say) 100+ million?
What a crock.
If you don't count all my debt, liabilities, my alimony payments, my child support payments, credit card balances, and so on, I look pretty good .. on paper.
if you think child support is expensive, try raising 'em!
Belgium pops up again.
These guys own so many US bonds they use them to wrap sandwiches.
Belgium, especially Brussels, is a proxy for the EU. It's becoming the Washington DC of Europe, i.e. a lot of "representatives"(=looters) from the rest of the EU who come in for a few hours, sign in for parliamentary meetings and cash in a generous allowance for attending or even without attending and just staying overnight in a hotel nearby (expenses paid).
Belgium is soooo backward; they have not even discovered ketchup for their fries yet! And their most famous statue is some kid pissing on people who stand too close on a windy day.
Primitives.
So, in Zimbabwe there are many trillionaires(ZWD) .
The US Federal Reserve's icon for printing. Evan's and Dudley's wet dream.
You too can become a Zimbabwe Multi-Trillionaire...
for a mere $16.95 (US)!!!
http://www.providentmetals.com/zimbabwe-100-trillion-dollar-note-uncirculated.html
Data looks off with 3.9% US at greater than $100 million and 5.9% US greater than $1 million.
Or it's just showing there's a big gap between the obvious trash at the bottom of the "millionaire" pile vs the 3.9% who are the superior humans at the top.
.0039%
Ehm ehm... I assume the list creator has forgotten about monaco?
When an average studio comes at the price of around 2m USD I do assume that they should at least pass Canada and their 2.9%.
Can't really call Monaco a country.
Nice place to visit, if you can afford the prices.
Well its defenitly more of a contry than Hong Kong is.
Theres nothing wrong with being a millionaire.
I work for millionaires.
I wont have a job if it wasnt for millionaires.
But if you are a dishonest millionaire or billionaire, then there's a problem.
Guys like Mozilo, Madoff, even a Geithner, they are the problem.
Imagine a world where all rich crooks are prosecuted. Now shed a tear, youre not living in it.
Well, "dishonest" is a subjective term. Are people who push debt on lower-intelligent humans "dishonest"? I would say screwing dumbasses is the most honorable thing one can do in life. How else would we know who the most-fit are?
Fit for what?
Fit to pass on their DNA to future generations who will be more smart-n-savvy, more beautiful, have even better teeth, and will inherit the political apparatus that will rule the losers who got screwed. What do you think has been going on for the last 100+ years? Ever notice how nice the teeth are of the most-fit Americans who are running around Europe on continuous vacation?
Look at Keanu Reeves. Rich as hell.
He cant give it away fast enough because he's happier without the money.
I would say he's a fitter 'human being'. Animals are for farming, Zoos and eating.
Something tells me Keanu Reeves' DNA bling won't be running the slow-motion eagles and flags in our glorous future.
The bias against dishonesty is certainly an arbitrary one. Those who are successful in life don't hate dishonesty; those who are unsuccessful look for something or someone to blame and they point at dishonesty - the idealize libertarianism. Those who lack a competitive drive altogether idealize communism or socialism. But dishonesty is part of real life, as is competition. Life is a biological war. There are no rules in war. The desire to impose rules is the bitterness of those who are unsuccessful and imagine that they would be more successful if their imagined set of rules were implemented. Maybe they get their moral feelings on their side and decree that something is "bad" and deserves to be banned, but reality has no good and bad, no right and wrong, only differing levels of power.
I'm going to steal this. It's a very good summary of the motives of the ISM's.
Israel now places highly in both of the proportional rankings, coming in just below the U.S. in percentage of millionaires.
Yet the U.S. still sends over $3 billion in annual aid to this wealthy OECD nation.
Will Israel's millionaires and their U.S. lobby EVER put away the begging bowl, and act like a normal country?
If professional sports can rip-off the dumbasses and get stadiums built for billionaires then why shouldn't anybody ask for money.
Government exists to take money from the dumbasses and give it to the smart-n-savvy people. Those who don't take, by definition, wouldn't be very smart-n-savvy.
They forgot Zimbabwe.
Ho Li Fuk - it may not matter anymore ...
Japan TV ‘News Flash’: Officials fear melted reactor fuel is now exposed at Fukushima — Tepco: We don’t know at this point if fuel is uncovered — Large drop in water level — Experts ‘struggling’ to find condition of nuclear cores, nothing is known for all 3 reactors (VIDEO)http://enenews.com/tv-officials-fear-melted-fuel-from-reactor-2-is-now-e...
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20140610_04.html?play
No worries, the solution to polution is dilution (and delusion). The Pacific Ocean is really big, and Japan is really far away.
QATAR?
The tiny country of wealthy fucks trying desparately to topple Syria, smash poor Syrian towns, pay mercs pisspoor blood money, so Qatarians can get a pipeline thru and get richer than they already are.
That Qatar?
Qatar, one of America's best friends in the middle east. We have some other jim-dandy bed-partners in the region as well. And with friends like that we don't even need enemies.
They lie, they cheat, they steal, they kill. They're our beloved owners (I mean leaders).
Better hoard your cheese.
What percentage of these US millionaires are government employees or government retirees?
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304360704579415173512940990
How to Become a (Public Pension) Millionaire
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0628/opinions-rich-karlgaard-digital-rules-millionaire-cop-next-door.html
The Millionaire Cop Next Door
Millionaires on paper and in paper.
Wait until the Petro$ goes poof.
We'll all be millionaires then, but poorer for it.
"Brother can you spare a wheelbarrow for me to use to cart this greenbacked TP to the market for a loaf of bread?!"
An interesting takeaway from that chart is that it would seem a large portion of UHNW persons in Qatar cohabitate under one household.
difference between millionare and 100 million dollar households in Qatar is interesting. Maybe alot of the UHNW individuals cohabitate?
The Italians were ALL millionaires....until some fuck put them on the Euro...
Now....not so much
Switzerland: the country that sells death, helds money of criminals in their vaults and stole from dead jews ("You want your grandfathers money? Sorry, please get a proper death certificate from the German authorities who murdered him in a concentration camp.")
The country that feeds conflicts since 1515...
http://www.dicconbewes.com/2012/09/26/switzerlands-blood-money/
I fucking hate the Swiss, sanctimonious, arrogant bunch of hypocrites! At least the USA or other countries don't pretend to be peaceful and "neutral".
Those weren't Jews. They were Germans whose ancestors came to Germany from eastern Europe. Jews came from Palestine like the rest of the Palestinians. Israelis hate the Swiss because the Swiss refuse to give them money of dead Germans. Israelis somehow believe that they deserve that money, even though the original account holders didn't agree. Why not give it to the people of Gaza instead?
Currently America is making it illegal for their citizens to hide their wealth in Switzerland, much as Germany did in the 1930s. Many people believe that the Americans, who criminally hide their money in Swiss banks like the Germans before them, will also die in concentration camps.
People only hide their assets in Switzerland because they trust the Swiss more than their own country.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/06/business/the-islands-treasured-by-offshore-tax-avoiders.html?_r=0
The Islands Treasured by Offshore Tax Avoiders
Bermuda,Cayman islands and British Virgin Islands
Did you know that United States companies earned $129 billion in 2010 in three small groups of islands?
new report describes “a modest five-story office building” known as Ugland House in the Cayman Islands. “It is the registered address for 18,857 companies.”
Given these stats, isn't it curious that it is "Belgium" of all countries that is buying up USTs by the hundreds of billions.
Not Switzerland, Austria, Singapore or Hong kong? I guess their millionaires and billionaires are too savvy for that Ponzi.
So does this mean that only 90% of the population in these countries will be rioting in the streets when the economic collapse comes?
Interesting stories from India, who cut power to some of its people during a very hot stretch of weather. The usual rioting occurs as expected, but what I found most interesting is that the people destroyed or damaged some power stations (like that will help get power on sooner) - AND - this is a big one -- they kidnapped some of the utility power workers. I had not expected that, and it makes me think that a similar thing could happen elsewhere once the 'mob mentality' takes over. What this means is that during a collapse, the workers who normally maintain peace, or infrastructure, or restaurants, or grocery stores, etc -- may get a similar treatment from angry mobs -- making the collapse all that much faster as other workers fear to report to work...
Interestingly, India is just firing up its first nuke station.
If workers are prevented from going in there, There will be an Indian Fuck you shima.
There are over 400 nuke plants scattered around the globe.
Could be a problem if everything goes tits-up.
natural barriers to immigration and good immmigration enforcement makes you wealthy
http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsRxnWOOEVA#t=206
This article should be celebrated as it tells you that despite everything the top 3000 are doing to crush the bottom 330 million of us, we're still able to come out with this many millionaires and this opportunity. Imagine if we got together and threw off the top 3000 - what we could achieve then.
Re: Imagine if we got together and threw off the top 3000 - what we could achieve then.
Depends, if you personally took all their loot and divided it up and sent an equal proportion to every person in the US maybe you'd get something different.
But, if the government took the loot I think we'd get more aircraft-carriers.
What are statistics worth? During spring tension thousends of wealthy Greeks are jetting to sunny Mykonos or elsewhere in the Aegeans. Hotels are completely booked. In the nightsclubs revellers are throwing flowers to friends as there would have been never a crisis. One tray of gillyflowers costs them between 50 to 100 Euro. As well champagne corks are popping.
On the paper (datas from 2011) six from ten Greeks are living in poverty, because due to tax-declarations their annual income amounts less then 12.000 Euro. 70 percent of freelancers - those like lawers, medical doctors - declare annual revenues below 10.500 Euro. Still more poverished behave investors: Landowners and investors admit a yearly income of 6730 Euro. - that means a monthly revenue about 900 Euro and investor. Only 60 citizens declared annual incomes of more than 900.000 Euro yearly. (Source: http://www.focus.de/finanzen/news/staatsverschuldung/tid-22705/griechenl...)
Already one year ago the "Manager-Magazin" resumed: Papakonstantinou admits his taxmen to be the most inefficient in Europe - in case they are not striking. Only 19 percent of Greeks economic output were booked as fiscal revenues last year - either because many of the taxable persons are lying to the financial boards."Nobody believes that there are only 15.000 Greeks outside their with annual earnings of more than 100.000 Euro" said Papakonstantinou towards the British Guardian. But exactly this is what they find in tax declarations. All the villas at the Athens outskirts, yachts-avens and small privat-islands are telling us another story..."
Some remarks:
Giorgos Papakonstantinou was Greek finance minister between October 2009 to June 2011. July the 15th the Greek parliament liftet his political immunity because Papakonstantinou was suspected by aiding and abetting tax-evasion: He allowed names of familly members to disappear from the so called "Lagarde-List". This list - handed out by Christine Lagarde to Giorgos Papakonstantinou personally in 2010 - was drawed up by an employee of the Swiss private bank HSBC and contained about 2.000 names of HSBC-customers - among them many Greek politicians - even government members - people of High-Society and public figures. The biggest HSBC-account (550 Mio. €) was kept by Margaret Papandreou - mother of Giorgos Papandreou, Greeks Prime Minister and chief of Papakonstantinou at this time. Papakonstantinous runs up the risk of 20 years in prison. He and his successor Evangelos Venizelos never made use of the Lagarde-List.
Liechtenstein and Monaco conspicuous by their absence. Principality stealth win.
It is not to hard to become a millionaire in a place like Qatar with only 250,000 citizens out of a population of 2 million, vast majority of people living in Qatar live in very harsh conditions
Actually GNP/capita for citizens in is $700,000/year, GNP per capita is US $100,000/year
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-21029018
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/far-from-qatars-bling-foreign-workers-say-theyre-living-a-nightmare/2013/11/19/32b9ef32-4a22-11e3-bf60-c1ca136ae14a_story.html
Far from Qatar’s glitter, foreign workers say they’re living a nightmare
Maybe we could find a use for the Brazilian spanking new stadiums after the World Cup finishes. Invite all the Uber wealthy to a post WC binge in those stadiums, offered by GWB and the Rockafellas; aka the Bilderbergers of Davos and Carlyle. Then lock them all in there, as they did to the Allende followers in Chile, and only release them once all their bank accounts have been cleaned out and put into their respective state banking ledgers under the control of a universal magistrate of Ron Paul caliber (or whoever has some cojones to spare).
Do a massive "bail in of the century" operation. Then all the Papa-andreous and papadums will be eviscerated Oligarchs as empty as oyster shells once you've eaten the oyster!
I'll sing Papabumbum to those trolls who can then walk their way back from post footballista land to their home towns feeling as light headed and light pocketed as the tramp of Charlie Chaplin fame.
good borders make wealthy citizens, yes the Central African Republic is the poorest in the world, probably the most diverse too.