Baku - APA-Economics. The number of people worth $1 million or more rose by 920,000 last year, hitting a record 14.6 million, chicagobusiness reported.
It was the sixth straight year-over-year increase as rising stock prices lifted the value of personal wealth in a few key countries, according to a report from consultant Capgemini and RBC Wealth Management.
The U.S. is home to 4.4 million millionaires, the most in the world. Japan ranks second with 2.5 million of them, followed by Germany, with 1.1 million. China, the world's second-biggest economy, ranks fourth. It has 890,000 millionaires.