SINGAPORE—Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea are projected to be the world’s richest economies on a per capita basis by 2050 as the region’s rapid growth boosts wealth creation, a study showed.
The survey by property giant Knight Frank and Citi Private Bank, reported in Singapore media Wednesday, also showed multimillionaires in Asia will continue to outnumber those in North America and Western Europe by 2050.
Singapore topped the list in 2010 and is expected to keep the top spot in 2050, when the city-state’s gross domestic product (GDP) per capita would reach $137,710.
It will be trailed by Hong Kong ($116,639), Taiwan ($114,093) and South Korea ($107,752) with the United States coming in fifth place, falling from third place in 2010.
Singapore’s 2010 GDP per capita stood at $56,532, while Hong Kong ($45,301) – the only other Asian economy in the top 10 that year – was in fourth place.
Taiwan and South Korea were not even in the top 10 in 2010.
“While rapid GDP growth does not in itself guarantee a sharp rise in high networth individuals, rapidly growing economies do provide key opportunities for large-scale wealth creation,” Grainne Gilmore, head of UK Residential Research at Knight Frank, wrote in the study.
Gilmore said there are now around 18,000 “centa-millionaires” – those with $100 million or more in assets – in the region covering Southeast Asia, China and Japan, more than the 17,000 in North America and 14,000 in Western Europe.
By 2016, Southeast Asia, China and Japan are expected to have 26,000 centa-millionaires, compared with 21,000 in North America and 15,000 in Western Europe, she wrote, citing data from Ledbury Research.
On a country basis, the United States will lead in 2016 with 17,100 centa-millionaires but China is expected to double its numbers to 14,000.
“Southeast Asian deca-millionaires – those with $10 million or more in assets – already outnumber those in Europe and are expected to overtake those in the US in the coming decade,” she said. –Agence France-Presse
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