Europe pushed through Asia in the ranking of wealth – Wyborcza.biz

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The richest region in the world remains the North America, in which the value of private property reaches 51 trillion. However, according to experts from the Boston Consulting Group will be dethroned by Asia as early as 2016.

Today the people of Asia and the Pacific, excluding Japan, accumulate 47 trillion., The Europeans – approx. 43 trillion. Changing places in the ranking is the result of getting rich in China, where it is more and more new millionaires. This trend is expected to continue and in 2019. Asia – according to analysts – will hold up to 34 percent. the world’s wealth.

17 million millionaires

Last year, worldwide private assets jumped by almost 12 per cent., to 164 trillion. thanks to the boom in stock markets and gains from bond markets. The number of dollar millionaires in the world increased from 15 to 17 million. They gather now 41 percent. global wealth.

In the coming years are the fastest swell wallets of the richest – those who hold more than 100 million dollars.

Most millionaires are still in the United States. On the other hand, based on the number of inhabitants most of their lives in Switzerland – per 1000 inhabitants, there are 135 millionaires there.

Why do so many look for?

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