Billionaires JSON File
From the CORGIS Dataset Project
By Ryan Whitcomb
Version 2.0.0, created 5-17-16
Tags: money, rich, wealthy, people, person, billionaire
Overview
Researchers have compiled a multi-decade database of the super-rich. Building off the Forbes World’s Billionaires lists from 1996-2014, scholars at Peterson Institute for International Economics have added a couple dozen more variables about each billionaire - including whether they were self-made or inherited their wealth. (Roughly half of European billionaires and one-third of U.S. billionaires got a significant financial boost from family, the authors estimate.)
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Key Descriptions
| Key | List of... | Comment | Example Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| name | String | The name of the billionaire. | "Bill Gates" |
| rank | Integer | The rank of this billionaire compared to the rest of the billionaires reported on. A lower rank means they make more money. | 1 |
| year | Integer | The year that data about this billionaire was collected. | 1996 |
| company.founded | Integer | The year that the company was founded. | 1975 |
| company.name | String | The name of the company. | "Microsoft" |
| company.relationship | String | The billionaires relationship to the company. | "founder" |
| company.sector | String | The sector of the business, or what segment of the economy they fit into. | " Software" |
| company.type | String | The type of business for this company. | "new" |
| demographics.age | Integer | The current age of the billionaire. Ages that are represented as -1 stand for ages that were not available in the data that was collected. | 40 |
| demographics.gender | String | A string representing their gender. | "male" |
| location.citizenship | String | The name of the country that this billionaire has citizenship with. | "United States" |
| location.country code | String | the 3-letter country code of the country where this billionaire has citizenship. | "USA" |
| location.gdp | Float | The "Gross Domestic Product" of the country where the billionaire has citizenship. This is one of the primary indicators used to gauge the health of a country's economy. It represents the total dollar value of all goods and services produced over a specific time period; you can think of it as the size of the economy. | 8100000000000.0 |
| location.region | String | The region of the world where this billionaire lives. | "North America" |
| wealth.type | String | The type of billionaire that they are. | "founder non-finance" |
| wealth.worth in billions | Float | The number of billion of dollars that this billionaire is worth. | 18.5 |
| wealth.how.category | String | A category representing where their money came from. | "New Sectors" |
| wealth.how.from emerging | Boolean | Whether the money came from emerging markets. | True |
| wealth.how.industry | String | The specific industry this billionaire profitted from. | "Technology-Computer" |
| wealth.how.inherited | String | The way that this money was inherited (or not inherited). Inheritance can come from a spouse, the father, or from multiple generations within a family (either 3, 4, or 5+). | "not inherited" |
| wealth.how.was founder | Boolean | Whether the billionaire was the founder of their company. | True |
| wealth.how.was political | Boolean | Whether the money came from politics. | True |