The INSIDER Summary:
- This map shows the breakdown of male and female billionaires in the world by country.
- For every one female billionaire, there are 8.4 male billionaires.
There aren't that many billionaires in the world — only 2,043, to be exact. But the number of women who have achieved this status is even smaller.
The following map, created by Lottoland, breaks down Forbes' 2016 ranking of billionaires by country and sex.
According to the map, there are 8.4 male billionaires in the world for every female billionaire.
Most of the women on the list are in Europe. Asia boasts the fastest-growing rate of self-made female billionaires, but the overall number decreased by 11.9% in 2016. There's only one country where the only billionaire is female, thanks to investor Isabel dos Santos of Angola.
So what is the "diamond ceiling" keeping more women from reaching these top spots? The New York Times reported that women still encounter sexism at executive levels.
“I don’t think they’re all actively trying to keep women out,” Julia Pimsleur, the founder of a multimillion-dollar language instruction company called Little Pim, told the New York Times, “but some discrimination still exists.”
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