Mumbai has the largest number of ultra high net worth individuals (UHNWIs) in India, at 1,094, followed by Delhi with 545, according to property services firm Knight Frank’s Wealth Report 2016 released on Wednesday. The report says UHNWIs in Mumbai will double to 2,243 and those of Delhi to 1,128 by the next decade.
Over the past 10 years, the billionaire count (with $1 billion net worth or more) in India jumped 333 per cent to 78 persons from 18 in 2006. The global growth in the number of billionaires during the past 10 years has been much lower at 68 per cent. There are an estimated 1,919 billionaires in the world at present.
In the past decade, India’s UHNWI count rose 340 per cent to 6,020 persons, whereas global growth was 61 per cent to 187,468, the report noted. “India will account for five per cent of the total UHNWI population and six per cent of the billionaire population across the world by 2025.”
According to the report, Indians have scored in property ownership. The average number of residential properties owned by wealthy Indians stands at four, which is the highest in the world. The global average stands at 3.7, the report notes.
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