How do economists determine the richest countries in the world? Do they add up the average annual wage and bank account value of every citizen? Do they calculate the market value of every home ...

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But the richest country in the world is actually a tiny European region with a population smaller than Birmingham. Despite its tiny size and population, Luxembourg is the richest country globally ...

War, pandemic and sluggish markets hit the world’s billionaires this year. There are 2,668 of them on Forbes’ 36th-annual ranking of the planet’s richest people—87 fewer than a year ago.

Mansa Musa travelled to Mecca with a caravan of 60,000 men and 12,000 slaves Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world ... wrecked an entire country's economy.

The Thomson family helms the vast Thomson-Reuters media empire, which employs over 25,000 people across the world, has a net ...