Being Born In These U.S. States Gives You The Highest Chances Of Becoming A Billionaire

18th July 2023

In light of the shaky economy and persistent inflation, the team at SuperCasinoSites decided to check on the billionaires and how they are doing in these hard times. It turns out they are actually doing well, they are even increasing in numbers with 51 new faces on the American billionaires list in 2023. We wondered if the place of birth is a factor when it comes to joining the Billionaire club.

To figure this out we pulled all US-born billionaires from the Forbes billionaires list and sifted out the ones who inherited or married into their fortune. We did so because we wanted to only include self-made billionaires in our study. We then calculated the Billionaire per capita ratios for every U.S. state, basing this on the population figures published by the US Census Bureau.

This gave us the following heat-map of the U.S., where the darker the colour, the better chance you have of becoming a billionaire if you were born there:

Key findings from the report:

* New York State holds the first position both in terms of the number of billionaires born on its territory (76) and the per capita ratio (0.39 billionaires per 100,000 individuals).

* With 41 billionaires, California comes 2nd as regards absolute numbers but only 19th in terms of per capita ratio - 0.11 billionaires per 100,000 residents.

* Massachusetts has the second-largest billionaires per capita ratio - 0.29 per 100,000 individuals.

* With just 3 billionaires born on its territory but a population of 1,093,734 residents, Rhode Island ranks 3rd in terms of per capita ratio - 0.27 billionaires per 100,000 citizens.

* Virginia, Louisiana, and Kentucky have the lowest per capita ratios among the states that have given birth to at least one billionaire - 0.02 per 100,000 residents.

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There were a record 171 billionaires in the country, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.19 May 2023

Gopi Hinduja and his family* are the richest people in the UK, according to this year's edition of The Sunday Times Rich List, published today online at https://www.thetimes.co.uk/sunday-times-rich-list and in the print edition of the newspaper on Sunday, May 21.

The Hindujas' wealth is put at £35 billion, up £6.528 billion on the previous year and the largest fortune ever recorded in 35 editions of the leading wealth rankings.

The 68-page special edition of The Sunday Times Magazine reveals there are 171 billionaires in the UK this year, down 6 from 2022. Wealth shared by UK billionaires climbed to £683.856 billion, £30.734 more than in last year’s Rich List. However, at a time of double-digit inflation that 4.5 per cent rise represents a fall in real terms.

A number of Rich List regulars are nursing heavy losses from the bursting of a second tech bubble. Sir Richard Branson’s wealth has fallen by £1.79 billion since last year, largely due to the falling share prices of his space tourism and satellite ventures.

Tech mogul Guillaume Pousaz has seen his personal fortune plunge by £13.3 billion due to a lower valuation of his London-based payments firm Checkout.com. Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty also slipped down the rankings due to the steep fall in the value of her stake in her father’s IT company, Infosys. The couple’s wealth is estimated at £529 million this year - a fall of £201 million in 12 months at an average daily rate of more than £500,000.

This year’s expanded list of 350 individuals and families together hold combined wealth of £796.459 billion - a sum larger than the annual GDP of Switzerland. Sir Elton John, Lord Lloyd-Webber and David and Victoria Beckham all appear in this year’s larger survey. The minimum entry for the list of 350 this year is £350 million.

Three women feature in this year’s Top Ten. They are brewing billionaire Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken, packaging heiress Kirsten Rausing and Alannah Weston, a member of the family that owns Primark.

Robert Watts, compiler of the Sunday Times Rich List, said: "This year's Sunday Times Rich List shows a golden period for the super rich is over. For the first time in 14 years we've seen the number of UK billionaires fall.

"Two years ago we raised concerns about an unsettling boom in the fortunes of the very wealthy that continued unchecked during the political instability around Brexit and the pandemic. This is not a crash - but there are household names who have lost vast sums over the past year. The bursting of the tech bubble, the end of rock bottom interests and the jitters creeping through the banking industry have all taken their toll.

"The super rich don't exist in a vacuum. Many small investors lost money in some of their overblown stock market floats. Many people also work for their businesses. Financial losses for billionaires can have implications for us all."

Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who is currently in a battle to take control of Manchester United, is this year’s highest climber. New information about his finances has catapulted the chemicals baron into second place, with an estimated fortune of £29.688 billion.

With a wide range of industrial and financial businesses and investments based mainly in the UK, India and Switzerland, the Hindujas are currently putting the finishing touches to their conversion of the Old War Office building in Whitehall into a five-star hotel and private residences.

In an exclusive interview published along this year’s Rich List, Gopi Hinduja speaks publicly for the first time about a costly family battle.

This year’s new entries include:

Sunder Genomal, who has amassed a £2.276 billion fortune by holding licences to sell Speedo swimwear and Jockey underwear in India.
Bungalow billionaire Robert Bull, with wealth estimated at £1.905 billion.
Sanjeev and Arani Soosaipillai, a couple from Weybridge in Surrey, have quietly grown a petro-chemical empire from Weybridge and are worth an estimated £1.505 billion.

There are no places this year for a trio hit by Western sanctions: Roman Abramovich, German Khan and Alisher Usmanov. Although the oligarchs’ personal fortunes — together estimated at £28.1 billion in 2022’s edition — remain largely intact, none of the three have British citizenship or are currently living in the UK.

For the full 350 go online at For the full 350 go online at sundaytimes.co.uk/richlist