The New Rich of China, Russia and Brazil
The economic boom in Asia and emerging economies, as well as inflation all across the globe has caused in increase in a number of billionaires in China, Russia and Brazil in 2011.
According to some reports, sources suggest China is set to have almost doubled the figures of their billionaire headcount to 115. Meanwhile Russia and Brazil have 101, and 30 billionaires respectively – confirmed by Forbes in its annual list of world’s richest men. This is the first time a country has emerged with more than 100 billionaires apart from US which has 413 billionaires till date.