The wealth of multimillionaires
The ranks of those worth at least $30 million swelled by more than 1,000 over the past year, to 187,380 people worldwide, according to a new report by research company Wealth-X. The collective wealth of these multimillionaires is $25.8 trillion, more than the combined size of the U.S. and Chinese economies. The number of billionaires also rose, by 9.4 percent, to 2,160 people.
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