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And Russia? Not even on the map: 110 people own 35% of the wealth, more than $1bn each. http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-billionaire-wealth-inequ...

> Canada with 1.6 million is pretty surprising. That's roughly the same per capita as the US.

Home ownership, along with vacationing, is a core value of Canadian society. When you look at the average cost of a home (quite high) in Canada, along with this article defining "The 1%" as anyone with wealth of $798,000 or more, it's easy to see why there are so many Canadians.

Germany with 2.8 million is equally interesting. The country's population is 80m. Atleast one in 35 people there is in the top 1%.

France has 3.5 million with an even smaller population of 66 million so one out of twenty. Even though it's not very stable from a financial perspective.

I believe those Chinese billionaires are counted in the USA, UK, Canada columns due to most of their assets being hidden overseas.

They're partly the reason why the Canadian number is so high.