{"id":338112,"date":"2014-09-18T08:35:54","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T12:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=338112"},"modified":"2021-10-10T12:00:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T16:00:40","slug":"number-of-billionaires-hits-new-record-high-in-2014-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/number-of-billionaires-hits-new-record-high-in-2014-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of billionaires hits new record high in 2014-report"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #008080\">Did you say &#8220;financial crisis&#8221;? So 188 500 people own the world where 7 billion people live. That&#8217;s much less than 1 %&#8230; I am not very good at mathematics but it&#8217;s something closer to 0.001 %<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">\n<p>The number of billionaires increased by 155 in 2014 reaching a record high of 2,325, according to the Billion Census report. The research showed that more than half of the new super-rich are self-made, and more than a third don\u2019t have a university degree.<br \/>\nThere was a 7.1 percent increase in the number of billionaires across the world in 2014 said the report, compiled by the consulting company Wealth-X and the Swiss bank UBS.<\/p>\n<p>Even though 2,325 is a new record, experts suggest the number could reach almost 4,000 by 2020 in the most bullish scenario, while conservatively it could reach 3,600.<\/p>\n<p>The report shows that 55 percent of the wealthiest people are self-made men and the number who inherited wealth has decreased.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/business\/188500-billionaires-world-number-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rael.maitreya\/posts\/10152730348429345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT:\u00a0 Did you say &#8220;financial crisis&#8221;? So 188 500 people own the world where 7 billion people live. That&#8217;s much less than 1 %&#8230; I am not very good at mathematics but it&#8217;s something closer to 0.001 %<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":338115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}