Billionaire Bill Gates

A billionaire is a person who has a net worth of at least one billion units of currency, such as United States dollars (US$), U.K. pounds (₤) or euros (€). For the film entitled Net Worth see Net Worth (film. In business net worth (sometimes called net assets) is the total Assets The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The Pound Sterling ( symbol £; ISO code: GBP) subdivided into 100 pence (singular penny) is the Currency The pound, a unit of currency originated in England as the value of a pound mass of Silver. Please update other articles as well to avoid contradiction within Wikipedia e The euro sign (€ is the Currency sign used for the Euro, the official currency of the European Union (EU

Though a "billion" used to be a million million in much of the Commonwealth of Nations, the American version (one thousand million) is commonplace now in the United Kingdom; so in Britain a billionaire is someone with a net worth of at least 1,000,000,000 pounds^[1]. The long and short scales are two different numerical systems used throughout the world Short scale is the English translation of the French According to Forbes Magazine, the year 2006 saw not only the biggest increase in billionaires around the world, but also was witness to the biggest economic expansion in history. Forbes is an American Publishing and media company Its flagship publication Forbes magazine is published bi-weekly It is believed that in that period, the world economy grew at an extraordinary rate of 2. 5%. The top three cities that have the largest concentration of billionaires according to Forbes are New York, London, and Moscow, with Moscow having the most billionaires according to the Forbes billionaire list published in 2008. The City of New York London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Moscow (Москва́ romanised: Moskvá, IPA: see also other names) is the Capital and the largest city of

Origins of billionaires

The first Forbes ranking of billionaires in 1986 found 140 billionaires around the world. Forbes is an American Publishing and media company Its flagship publication Forbes magazine is published bi-weekly Year 1986 ( MCMLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar) However, by 2008 Forbes ranking counted a total of 1,125, whose total accumulated wealth measured US$4. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common 4 trillion^[2]. John D. Rockefeller became the first billionaire on September 29, 1916. John Davison Rockefeller ( July 8, 1839 &ndash May 23, 1937) was an American Industrialist and philanthropist Events 522 BC - Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire. Year 1916 ( MCMXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year The youngest billionaire in the world is Mark Zuckerberg, 24-year-old creator of the popular social networking website Facebook. Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Facebook is a social networking Website launched on February 4 2004

The average billionaire is a 62-year-old male who gained his wealth through investments, inheritance or business practices.

See also

• Millionaire
• Lists of billionaires
• List of countries by the number of billionaires
• Pareto distribution
• Gini coefficient

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