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Proposal to add percentage of world population to sortable wikitable

This seems like potentially important information to express in the table as it highlights the discrepancy between where the world population is situated and where the billionaires are situated, although I also recognise it might be a little too off-topic for this article to be placed in something so central to the article. What do other people think? Melias C (talk) 12:49, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

I fully support this. I think the data only as a table is mostly meaningless. Throdkghelaalkht (talk) 09:03, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Proposal to add percentage of country population to sortable wikitable

The reason I think this is important is that the absolute numbers have little information content when not adjusted for the size of the country. For example, there is a belief that most billionaires live in the US or in China. In absolute numbers, yes, but in relative numbers, no. The data also doesn't show to what extent billionaires reside in tax havens. The population data is also available on Wikipedia. We even have comments in the talk page where people are apparently confused by this, such as "China has more billionaires than the US??" This is similar to reporting absolute number of deaths for COVID-19 without deaths per 100k. Correct, but quite meaningless IMO. I added this column, but it was removed as "original research". I think dividing one data point from Wikipedia by another data point from Wikipedia probably shouldn't be original research, but I might be wrong.

Throdkghelaalkht (talk) 09:03, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 22 June 2020

Mongolia has 5 known billionaires by forbes from 2018 and they are Odjargal Jambaljamts, Chinbat Lagva, Battulga Khaltmaa, Nyamtaishar.B, Batbold Sukhbaatar. Munkh-Orgil Sainjargal (talk) 20:40, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Danski454 (talk) 20:43, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 8 August 2020

Algeria has atleast 5 billionaires and not 1 105.101.161.11 (talk) 16:10, 8 August 2020 (UTC) i want to correct something about this, algeria in fact has atleast 5 billionaires they are: Ali Hadadd Mohamed Laid Benamor Abderrahmane Benhamadi Djilali Mehri Abdelmadjid Kerrar this is the source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mfonobongnsehe/2018/06/05/5-multi-millionaires-from-algeria-you-should-know/#19a1e7a33607 - adding more sources: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-algeria-corruption-politics/five-algerian-billionaires-arrested-as-part-of-anti-graft-investigation-state-tv-idUSKCN1RY0PJ https://www.aboutalgeria.com/2017/12/the-algerian-billionaires.html (9 billionaires in this list) https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/04/algeria-5-billionaires-arrested-part-anti-corruption-drive-190422111903777.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 105.101.161.11 (talk) 16:19, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

 Not done. The 2020 Forbes source used in the article lists 1. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 21:30, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

Saudi

Look at the list. Why do I see UAE and Oman, but no Saudi?? The map has mentioned Saudi.180.150.115.177 (talk) 13:47, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 28 October 2020

With the addition of 34 new billionaires, India now has 138 of them. According to Hurun Global Rich List 2020, China has 799 while the US has 626 Source : https://currentaffairs.adda247.com/india-ranked-3rd-in-hurun-global-rich-list-2020/ 122.162.108.119 (talk) 17:23, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

 Not done. It's not clear what changes you want to make. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 03:35, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

China has more billionaires than US???180.150.115.177 (talk) 15:26, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 10 April 2021

It currently says there are 177 billionaires and 7.719 per million people in India. This is clearly wrong as there were 1.38 billion people in India in 2020. The correct number should be 0.128. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.71.157.189 (talk) 23:36, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

 Done. This has been updated. MBihun (talk) 19:38, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

References

Semi-protected edit request on 11 April 2021

If there are 177 billionaires in India, and the total population of India is around 1.369 billion, then the number of billionaires per one million people should be recorded as 0.129. 47.38.115.92 (talk) 01:30, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

 Done. This has been updated. MBihun (talk) 19:38, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

Proposal to add national GDP to sortable wikitable

I think an indicator that gives some measure of a country's relative standard of living is important. Not perfect, but the GDP is a rough indicator. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.167.119.100 (talk) 09:55, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

Iceland

Iceland now has 2 billionaires, so their "no of billionaires per million" should be doubled nowLostCitrationHunter (talk) 15:18, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 23 July 2022

176.221.208.58 (talk) 17:57, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

https://www.forbes.com/profile/mikhail-lomtadze/?list=rtb/&sh=4d78341d798e

https://www.forbes.com/profile/bidzina-ivanishvili/?list=rtb/&sh=3fb851e14598 176.221.208.58 (talk) 17:58, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

Hello, in the list for Georgia is written 1, actually there are 2 Georgian Billionaires in the forbes list. Please see the link from Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/#1365e843d788

 Done IntoTheNightSky (talk) 10:37, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

Sweden Not calculated properly. 45 divided by 10 is 4.5...

Sweden Not calculated properly. 45 divided by 10 is 4.5... Chesucram (talk) 10:48, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Death of UK billionaire

Today a submarine went missing. On board the submarine is British billionaire Michael Harding and other rich people.I hope for the best. Hope they survive, but all I'm seeing in the news is grim news.

Should the article be changed? The number of billionaires in the UK should be lowered. 49.184.180.11 (talk) 10:31, 20 June 2023 (UTC)