Wanted to fly a plane, but never could? With $100 billion, you could just buy around 250 Boeing 747s and set up your own private airline. To live like a King, you could buy the world's largest royal domain The Palace of Versailles for $50 billion, which has 700 rooms, 600 paintings, 400 sculptures and 1,400 fountains.
Here are seven things we could do with $100 billion:
Provide free tuition for 2 out of 3 public college students in the U.S. Send every household in the U.S. a $700 check to help offset effects of inflation. Hire 890,000 Registered Nurses to address shortages. Cover medical care for 7 million veterans.
If someone then gave you a billion dollars and you spent $1,000 each day, you would be spending for about 2,740 years before you went broke.
200 billion is enough to: Pay the entire cost of the US military (wages, maintaince, production, admin, R&D, everything) for about two and a half months, the British military for about four years, or the entire public expenditure of Monaco for two thousand years.
Suppose you had $1-billion. You could spend $5,000 a day for more than 500 years before you would run out of money. Breaking it down even farther, it means you would have to spend over $100,000 every day for the next 25 years in order to spend $1-billion.
If someone then gave you a billion dollars and you spent $1,000 each day, you would be spending for about 2,740 years before you went broke. How many dollar bills does it take to make a stack 1 inch high? Well, we'll give you the answer: 100 dollar bills.
If you write a 1 followed by nine zeros, you get 1,000,000,000 = one billion! That's a lot of zeros!
One billion dollars in U.S. currency equals 1,000 million dollars. This large numerical value holds significant importance when discussing vast quantities. For example: The U.S. Census Bureau currently estimates the world population is almost 8 billion people — 7,868,872,451 to be exact.
Another major index gauging global net worth, the Forbes World's Billionaires List, is more conservative in its wealth estimates and only admits four people - Musk, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Arnault and Microsoft founder Bill Gates - to the $100 billion club.
The length of 1,000,000,000 (one billion) one dollar bills laid end-to-end measures 96,900 miles. This would extend around the earth almost 4 times.
Each bill is 2.61 inches by 6.41 inches, making the area of a bill 16.7301 square inches. A billion dollars in $100 bills would weigh 22,000 pounds, and be more than 1,100 cubic feet of paper.
A million seconds is 12 days. A billion seconds is 31 years. A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.
It wasn't until 1999 when the world saw its first centibillionaire, when Bill Gates' net worth, however briefly, surpassed $100 billion. The state of play in 2022 is that there are nine centibillionaires with fortunes greater than $100 billion, but who could be on course to become the first trillionaire?
A billion dollars is a ridiculous amount of money for one person to possess. But that kind of money can do a lot of good in the right hands. That kind of money can make a difference.
You could end global poverty. You could settle on the Moon and explore the solar system. You could build a massive particle collider to probe the nature of reality like never before. You could build quantum computers, develop artificial intelligence, or increase human lifespan.
A billion – in Australia – is $1,000,000,000.
Take one billion $1 bills and put them in a stack (we'll wait) after years of stacking, your pile would measure 358,510 feet or 67.9 miles high. One billion $1 bills would cover a four-square mile area, or the equivalent of 2,555 acres. If you laid the $1 bills end to end, the trail would measure 96,900 miles.
It's a thousand billion. It's a one followed by 12 zeros.
There are 2,640 billionaires as of May 2023, according to Forbes. However, only 140 people were in the exclusive billion-dollar club back in 1987. Meaning that while achieving billionaire status is a very big deal, but it is not as difficult as it once was.
A trillion is a thousand billion, and it's a million, million. A stack of one billion dollars bills would be 67.866 miles high. A stack of one trillion dollar bills would reach 67,866 miles into space.
It would take you more than 2,700 years to spend a trillion dollars, if you spent one million dollars every day. And if you had that much and spent one dollar per second, it would take more than 32,000 years to spend it all. Also, a trillion dollars in one-dollar bills would weigh 2.2 billion pounds.
A recent analysis determined that a $1 million retirement nest egg may only last about 20 years depending on what state you live in. Based on this, if you retire at age 65 and live until you turn 84, $1 million will probably be enough retirement savings for you.
This means that if you were given a billion dollars and told to spend it in one year, you would have to spend a minimum of $2,739,726 a day to reach zero by the end of the year. If you had a stack of a billion dollars in one dollar bills, the height of the stack would run 67.9 miles high.