中國造富運動加速 亞太超級富豪人數一年後超美國

North America has about a year left to enjoy its reign as the region with the greatest number of extremely wealthy people, according to the authors of a new wealth report. Poised for succession is the Asian-Pacific region, which, as early as next year, will be home to the world’s largest population of people with more than $30 million in investible assets, largely thanks to big growth in countries like China and Singapore.

據一份最新財富報告的執筆者們稱，北美繼續享有擁有世界最多超級富豪地區名號的時間僅僅剩下約一年。已準備好接替美國的地區是亞太，它最早將於明年成爲擁有超過3,000萬美元投資資產超級富豪人數最多的地區，其中大部分原因是由於中國和新加坡等國家中的富豪人數大幅增加。

That might not sound so remarkable, especially considering that the Asia-Pacific region today has more than 4.2 billion people and the U.S. only has 317 million, according to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. But historically, that hasn’t mattered. The U.S. has around four million very rich people, more than the second and third-ranked countries (Japan and Germany, respectively) combined.

聽起來沒什麼了不起的，特別是考慮到，據聯合國（United Nations）經濟和社會事務部（Department of Economic and Social Affairs）的數據，亞太地區當前擁有超過42億人，而美國僅有3.17億人。但從歷史上看，這一點並不重要。美國擁有約400萬非常富有的人，富豪人數比排名第二位和第三的國家（分別爲日本和德國）加起來還多。