Nearly one million people worldwide became millionaires in 2025, UBS report finds
- Nearly one million new US dollar millionaires were created worldwide in 2025 as personal wealth grew at its fastest rate in years, according to Swiss bank UBS.
- Global personal wealth increased by 10.8% in 2025, up from 4.6% in 2024 and 4.2% in 2023, driven by strong financial markets.
- The United States produced over 440,000 new millionaires, making up almost half of the global growth in wealth, UBS reported.
- Although average wealth rose, median wealth declined in most countries since 2020, showing a growing gap between the richest and the rest of the population.
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The personal affluence recorded in 2025 the fastest rate of growth in recent years, generating almost a million new million dollars in US dollars worldwide, shows Swiss bank UBS in the annual report on global wealth, published on Tuesday.
The wealth of residents grew at the fastest rate in recent years last year, but at the same time, wealth inequality is deepening, according to the latest report from UBS.
According to the latest Global Wealth Report of the Swiss bank UBS, published on Tuesday 30 June, global wealth increased by 10.8% over a year. This increase was accompanied by a "record" of "new millionaires", with more than a million people having exceeded this threshold. - Nearly a million people became millionaires in the world in 2025, a record according to UBS (Economy).
Nearly a million new millionaires in just one year. 2025 was a record year for world-wide private wealth. Now confirming this is Ubs' Global Wealth Report 2026, according to which the number of people with a heritage of more than one million dollars has increased by 1.5%, equal to about 980 thousand new millionaires. Over 2,680 per day. The total personal wealth has grown by 10.8% globally, more than twice as much as 2024 (+4.6%), supported both…
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