Top 10 richest countries in 2050

The Wealth Report of 2012, a new research by Knight Frank Research and Citi Private Bank, is keeping out these forecasts. According to the research, the Twenty first millennium will mostly be covered with the Eastern, rather than the European, particularly when it comes to per-capita income.

Today, even in the middle of an financial lack of stability in European countries, citizens of western countries outpace the world. Eight of the ten top-earning countries, for example, are associates of NATO.

•  2010 GDP PER CAPITA (IN USD)

1.     Singapore — $56,532
2.     Norway — $51,226
3.     United States — $45,511
4.     Hong Kong — $45,301
5.     Switzerland — $42,470
6.     Netherlands — $40,736
7.     Australia — $40,736
8.     Austria — $39,073
9.     Canada — $38,640
10.     Sweden — $36,438

By 2050, the study’s writers estimate, this record will be specifically different. Even though per-capita income in the US is predicted to double in the next 40 years, the research that financial might will move to Eastern Oriental countries. When it comes to per-capita earnings, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Southern South korea will will outpace the United States by 2050.

PREDICTED 2050 GDP PER CAPITA (IN USD)

1.     Singapore — $137,710
2.     Hong Kong — $116,639
3.     Taiwan — $114,093
4.     South Korea — $107,752
5.     United States — $100,802
6.     Saudi Arabia — $93,311
7.     Canada — $96,375
8.     United Kingdom — $91,130
9.     Switzerland — $90,956
10.     Austria — $90,158

The writes Grianne Gilmore, head of U.K. residential research at Knight Frank:

“Our global HNWI data also indicates a shifting emphasis to the East. There are now 18,000 centa-millionaires in the region covering South-East Asia, China and Japan. This is more than North America, which has 17,000, and Western Europe with 14,000.”