The world’s richest address
Hong Kong is now home to more extremely rich people than any other city in the world, as the rapidly growing Chinese economy mints a new class of financial elites, according to Wealth-X, a research firm that studies the world’s wealthiest people
10,000
Residents in Hong Kong who each control at least $30 million (U.S.); New York is No. 2 with 9,000
31%
Increase in the number of Hong Kong’s extremely rich from 2016 to 2017
256,000
The ranks of the phenomenally wealthy worldwide in 2017, up 13%
26
Number of Chinese cities on the list of 30 fastest-growing super-rich populations