Bill Gates, Carlos Slim, Warren Buffett, Amancio Ortega and Mark Zuckerberg are the richest people on the planet, according to Forbes magazine. The assets of each one exceeds 30 million euros, which is the amount stipulated to consider someone as super-rich . There are 211,275 such individuals in the world, according to the Wealth-X and World Ultra Wealth Report, from the Swiss bank UBS. That 0.00004% of the global population owns 12.8% of the wealth , reports Esther Chaves in the last extra issue Very Interesting Questions & Answers.
By zones, North America tops the podium, with 70,485 millionaires . It is followed by Europe (58,065) and Asia (44,505); Africa only has 2,775 wealthy people. Most are male (87.7%) , with a mean age of 63 years. Two out of three men generated their own fortune, while two out of three women inherited it.
If we divided their total wealth between them, each would have an average of 2,840 million euros. From the amount of super-million dollar fortunes, about 1,000 million euros are allocated to purchase luxury goods and services (food, travel, clothing …). They also love cars ($ 40 billion), private flights ($ 23 billion), yachts ($ 22 billion), and alcohol ($ 8 billion). In the altruism chapter, men donate an average of 22 million euros throughout their lives, for 28 million euros.
