“Selfmade Billionaires are growing about 10.5% a year for the past 25 years (2020 to 2024), which is about 3 times as fast as global economic growth of 3.2%. For good or bad, they change the world” –Paul Chan

Year Total_Billionaires SelfMade_% SelfMade_Count (Forbes Mag)Milestone Museum Billioniare began 2014
2000 470 50% 235Dot Com Bubble
2001 538 50.8% 273
2002 497 51.7% 257
2003 476 52.5% 250
2004 587 53.3% 313
2005691 54.2% 374
2006 793 55% 436
2007 946 55.8% 528
2008 1125 56.7% 638
2009 793 57.5% 456
2010 1011 58.3% 590
2011 1210 59.2% 716
2012 1226 60% 736
2013 1426 60.8% 867
2014 1645 61.7% 1014Paul Chan began Research with a spreadsheet on every single billionaire on the Forbes List
2015 1826 62.5% 1141Published eBook Amazon Kindle First Title “36 Women Selfmade Billionaires”
2016 1810 63.3% 1146Published No 17 eBook Amazon Kindle. Published first YouTube Video 0001 in November
2017 2043 64.2% 1311
2018 2208 65% 1435
2019 2153 65.8% 1417
2020 2095 66.7%1397Reached 1 million views on YouTube
2021 2755 67.5% 1860YouTube Video Episode 1000 published January
2022 2668 68.3% 1823
2023 2640 69.2% 1826YouTube Video Episode 2002 published
2024 2781 70% 1947
2025 NA NANA1. Incorporated non-profit 2. obtained EIN 3. www.museumbillionaires published.

Of course, countries like China, India and Russia all have hundreds of selfmade billionaires.

Except North Korea and Cuba, almost all countries in the world has selfmade billionaire. E.g. I have done videos on 2 selfmade billionaires in Estonia (population less than 2 million), videos on billioniares from Albania (population less than 3 million). Countries like Bangladesh, Nepal, Zimbabwe, Uruguay all have selfmade billionaires.

Any Country Can?

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