The Wealthiest People in the World



RieraThe Wealthiest People in the WorldJohn Cabot UniversityFinal Project- Professor ScaramastraJesus Riera Index:HYPERLINK \l "Page3"The ListPage3HYPERLINK \l "Page4"Interesting FactsPage 4HYPERLINK \l "Page5"Analysis and ConclusionPage 5Introduction of Project:According to specialists, there are only approximately 1,000 billionaires alive today. That is an extremely small quantity considering there are more than 7 billion living in this world. This project will analyze many aspects from the lives of some of these people. More specifically, it will analyze the lives of the 30st richest people in the world according to Forbes Co. To compile these net-worths, Forbes values individuals’ assets in public and private companies, real estate, yachts, expensive cars, art cash, and accounts for debt. Though they are very wealthy, dictators or politicians who have acquired their fortunes entirely as a result of their position of power are not included in this list. Therefore, this project will work based on this list, and will gather many other information in order to discover whether some connections exist between these people’s wealth and many other factors. For example: What country has the majority of the rich people in the world? What are their ages? What are some of the other nationalities and religions? What type of industry do they work on? Do they have a university degree or not? Is their fortune inherited? What types of zodiac signs do they have? These and many other interesting questions will be examined, and hopefully some interesting correlations and data will be 30 Billionaires List342901936751. Carlos Slim114301936752. Bill Gates400052413003. Amancio Ortega4. Waren Buffet22860704845. Larry Elison-22860127634400052203456. Charles Koch114301968507. David Koch-361952457458. Li-Ka Shing133353155959. Lilianne Bettencourt2476531242010. Bernard Arnault3936922669511. Christy Walton1143122669512. Stefan Persson1143022987013. Mike Bloomberg-1524022669514. Jim Walton3429028384515. Sheldon Adelson3429022479016. Alice Walton-4572022161517. S. Rob Walton1142921526518. Karl Albrecht3238517399019. Jeff Bezos2921022161520. Larry Page3429026289021. Sergey Brin7810521526622. Mukesh Ambani7810521526523. Michele Ferrero8001017716524. Lee Shau Kee3048021907525. Linda Thomson3810043815026. Prince Alwaleed Alsaud-1714535242627. Carl Icahn7810535242528. Thomas Kwok3238535242629. Dieter Schwarz-2286035242630. George SorosInteresting Facts:The United States is the country with the most billionaires in the world based on this list. They constitute 50% of the entire list. Followed by Hong Kong with 3 people (10 percent). Then, France and Germany both have 2 billionaires (7 percent) and then Mexico and Spain account for 4 percent each. Finally, Canada, India, Sweden, Saudi Arabia, Greece and Italy each constitute 3 percent. Leo is the zodiac sign which is present amongst these billionaires the most. While Cancer is the least with only 1 billionaires having this zodiac sign. –Judaism is the predominant religion with 8 members, while Catholics and Christian account for 6 and 4 people respectively.[Check PowerPoint for graphs.]Supermarkets are the industry with the oldest owners, with an average of 93 years of age. On the other hand, technology is the industry with the youngest billionaires with an average of 51.2 years. Cosmetics is the least profitable industry while Technology is the most profitable one.Those with college degree have 46.6 billion more in total, compared to does with none. Judaism is the richest religion with a total of 211.3 billion dollars & Buddhism is the least-wealthy religion with a total of 31.0 billion dollars.60 percent of these billionaires started from scratch and made their fortunes out of nothing, while 40% have inherited it. All female fortunes are inherited and they account for 125.1 billion dollars. Males whom fortunes are inherited account for 182 billion dollars. Males that are self-made billionaires account for 611.1 billion out of the total amount of money of 918.2 billion dollars. Scorpio is the zodiacal sign with the highest amount of wealth with 147 billion, while Cancer is the least-wealthy with 20 billion. [Check Excel for detailed Table.]Analysis & Conclusion:This project has shown many different and interesting relationships between the richest people in the world. Are these intertwined characteristics the reasons behind their wealth and success? I highly doubt it. However, there are many repeating characteristics many or most of these people posses. For instance, self-made males are the richest people in general. This can takes us to conclude that entrepreneurs are currently the richest people. Another important characteristic discovered, is that those who possess a college degree have 46.6 billion more in total than does who did not graduate from a higher institution. Furthermore, perhaps the most noticeable trait discovered is that women are still far behind when it comes to wealth. They constitute only 17% of the entire list. This is, however, rather not surprising. A strong reason is that many of these fortunes started to develop from as back as the 19th or early 20th century where women were unfortunately still considered second-class citizens. Furthermore, still nowadays men on average earn higher salaries and are perceived by society as being more prepared in the work-environment. Studies have shown that this is extremely inaccurate, and there is no question that in years to come many more women will be included in this list of the wealthiest people in the world, perhaps presenting many similar characteristics between them, as we see with this list presented today. ................
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