According to the estimates of the analytic center Wealth-X, the number of billionaires in 2016 makes 2473 worldwide. Most of the richest people in the world live in New York. Hong Kong is in the second place, while Moscow ranks the top third city, where the richest people in the world live , informs the zagranitsa.com.
As the Wealth-X reports, billionaires prefer to live in the world's largest financial centers. 97 billionaires live in New York, 79 in Hong Kong, 74 in Moscow, 68 in London, 38 in Beijing, 37 in Singapore, 36 in Sao Paulo, 35 in Dubai, 32 in Istanbul, 31 in Mumbai, 29 in Paris, 26 in Los Angeles, 24 in Riyadh, 24 in San Francisco, and 24 in Shenzhen.