According to the report, 9,449 Romanians have fortunes between $1 million and $5 million; 721 have $5-10 million; 406 have $10 to $50 million; 31 have $50-100 million; 17 have $100-500 million. Only one Romanian has a fortune of $500 million to $1 billion and the $1 billion mark is only exceeded by one Romanian.
The Czech Republic has around 28,400 millionaires and three billionaires, while Poland has 44,600 millionaires and three billionaires. In Austria, the number of millionaires is of around 205,000, of whom five are billionaires.
According to the report, the United States of America have the largest number of wealthy people, with 13.2 million millionaires, of which 326 are billionaires and 696 with fortunes between $500 million and $1 billion.
The second largest number of wealthy people is in Japan, with 2.65 million millionaires and 16 billionaires, followed by France with 2.21 million millionaires and 17 billionaires, Germany with 1.73 million of which 46 billionaires, and the UK with 1.52 million of which 28 billionaires.
Italy and Spain, the main destinations for Romanian migrants have 1.45 million and 400,000 millionaires, respectively.
North America is the richest region in the world for the first time since 2005, as the US housing market and stock markets have rebounded, the report notes. After five years of economic growth, the wealth of the North American population increased 12% in July 2012 – June 2013, to $78,900 billion.
The Asia-Pacific region saw a decline of 3.7%, to $73,900 billion, mainly due to a 20% decline in Japan, where authorities’ massive liquidity inflows caused a massive depreciation of the yen.
Wealth in Europe increased in the same period by 7.7%, to $76,300 billion.
Worldwide, population wealth increased 4.9%, to $241,000 billion, according to the report.
Wealth data include non-financial assets, such as homes and property, and net financial assets, such as bank accounts, stocks, bonds, pension funds, insurance, etc, minus debts.