Billion (billion) is. Billion is the definition. US national debt

100 million. This is already serious. Both in size and weight. You can’t carry that much money on your own; you need to order (or immediately buy) a truck for transportation. Weight about 1,000 kg.

1 billion. For transportation here you will need something more serious: a truck or a cargo container. After all, 10 tons of money is impressive. For comparison, this amount will completely fill a standard apartment of 30 square meters to the ceiling. meters. Can you imagine - full apartment money!!!

1 trillion dollars.

It’s even difficult to imagine such an amount, but let’s try. If you want to move your trillion across railway— 2,500 wagons will be needed. The train of such cash containers will stretch for 35 km. And if instead of hundred-dollar bills we put change in the form of one-dollar bills, the length of our train will be 3,500 km. For comparison: from Moscow to London is about 2,500 km.

To spend a trillion dollars you will need to spend a million dollars every day for almost 3 thousand years.

Not weak!

This is what America's national debt looks like

To achieve their goal, many advise visualizing objects, but this is not always possible.

For example, some people want to earn $1,000,000,000, but they have no idea what it looks like, how much space it takes up, or how much weight it has. We decided to figure this out and help our readers imagine their dream.

What is a billion dollars? This is a huge pile of money that you can live on for the rest of your life. Few people manage to collect it, but you definitely need to strive for it. We have already given, and now we decided to raise the bar and talk about billions of dollars.

What does a billion dollars look like?

Owners of such an amount can live happily and not think about their financial situation at all.

For example, if you spend $300,000 on apartments in Moscow (about 20 million rubles), you can purchase more than 3,000 real estate properties. You rent them out and get a stable passive income no problem.

In films, we often see robbers trying to take large sums out of a bank, but it is difficult to determine exactly how much money they want to steal. To give you an idea, a billion dollars looks like this:

Usually in movies they show 1-2 such cubes, but it’s much less money. If we talk about weight, then it all depends on what bills the money is in.

For convenience, let's consider the weight of a million dollars:

in cent coins one hundred tons;
in dollar bills it weighs a ton;
2 bucks 500 kg;
5 bucks 200 kg;
10 bucks 100 kg;
20 and 50 bucks for 50 kg;
100 bucks for 10 kg.

If we compare the Russian currency, it is somewhat lighter. So, a million in 100 ruble notes will weigh a little less than 10 kg, and in 5000 ruble notes, about 200 grams.

It is prohibited to export larger banknotes from the country, so we will not consider them. By the way, 1 million dollars does not even take up one cube:

With the help of simple calculations, we can assume that billions of dollars in banknotes for $100 it weighs 10 tons. Just imagine several tons of paper. Just for fun, check out what $100 million looks like:

But you can go even deeper and imagine a trillion dollars. Even if you started spending a million every day since the birth of Christ, you would still have money left over. This is not just one “evergreen” truck:

It is much easier to imagine such volumes by comparing banknotes to a football field or even an airplane. Try to visualize this, this kind of money would not only help you live a beautiful life, you could do anything:

Everyone knows that America has serious debts, and to give you just a moment's idea of where they stand, take a look at the following image:

This is 19 trillion dollars, which is generally difficult to imagine. The money is colossal, for some countries GDP much less (Iceland, Bahamas, Maldives, Dominica, etc.).

In terms of the number of billionaires in the country, America ranks first, China second, Russia third (Moscow alone is home to 79 rich people out of 111 billionaires).

There are many billionaires in the world, according to unofficial data, their number has already exceeded 4000. The richest person on the planet is Bill Gates, every second his accounts are replenished with approximately $250 and, according to official data, his fortune is estimated at $76 billion.

Hello readers!

Let's take a break from important matters and plunge into the educational world, but let's not retreat from financial topic, after all, a blog is a blog about investments and money.

The topic of today's post came to me by accident, or rather, I saw it on my Facebook feed ;-). If you have not yet encountered such information on the Internet, then I think you will be interested.

When I came across pictures with mock-ups of these little green stacks, I realized that I had never thought about what this tempting amount might look like in real life. And not only a million dollars, but a billion!

Let's get started... and start with the smallest paper bill, the $1 bill. I think that none of you will be surprised by this picture; surely, each of us has ever held it in our hands:

Now the amount is larger, for a change let’s skip 100 dollars, everyone knows what a hundred dollars can look like in a pack and in one piece of paper. Moreover, the amount is not as big as a million dollars. 100 dollars is an affordable amount of money for most Russians, so we skip it, and immediately ten thousand dollars ($10,000):

Of course, all these amounts may look different, it all depends on what denominations the banknotes consist of. Well, let’s not quibble about this, the main thing is, so to speak, the basics, and it won’t take long to imagine the rest...

And...drum roll 🙂 we meet, or rather, see what a million dollars looks like. This time the pile consists of one-dollar packs, after all, a standard:

This is such a beautiful hill, the dream of many of us... if you compare it with cabbage, it seems to me that it looks like cauliflower 😆 Now you know what a million looks like American dollars. You can apply and imagine how this mountain lies on your table, and you can easily take each pack in your hands, feel the money with the touch of your hands and smell it :) No, so what? Why not... dreams do come true! 😉

Here you can even clearly see how the quantity changes from a pack of 100 dollar bills ($10,000), also an example of what a million dollars looks like consisting of packs of $100, and a hundred million dollars, also from packs of $100 bills. I wrote earlier, but here’s another one of them revealed :) Now we know what easy money looks like in reality.

The next picture is one billion dollars, there’s not much to say here, except that these are 10 “packs” of one hundred million each and that all this is similar to the saying:

But, apparently, this saying was invented by a person who does not know that there is a convenient and simple one 😉

This could go on for a long time, but I couldn’t resist and demonstrate one trillion dollars:

This is some interesting information I came across, I hope that you also found it interesting, informative and useful to know what a million dollars and other large sums look like, although these are only pictures, in fact, most money exists in non-cash form.

It remains to look at these money supply, imagine them as your own and think about what to do with them... how to preserve them? ? what to invest in so that they do not leak away from us, but work and multiply for our benefit. And we, in turn, did not become snobs and did not forget about others!

That's all for today, good luck and see you!

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Ever since money appeared in the world, people have been concerned about the question of how much money is needed to experience a state of blissful relaxation. It’s probably very nice not to think about money, because it is there today, will be there, tomorrow and always. But at what amount does real wealth begin, what should you dream about and what should you strive for?

It seems that only Shura Balaganov from The Golden Calf knew the answer to this question. He accurately calculated that for complete happiness, to have a “good life in the world,” you need 6,400 rubles. Shura was a romantic. How much do you need to be happy? Well, of course, the price of happiness should be six zeros, or better yet, nine. A billion banknotes, better in some reliable currency, for example, in dollars.

What does a billion dollars look like?

Translated into native currency a billion dollars is approximately 70 billion rubles. Does this figure warm you up? Is it enough to live happily for 50 years and leave something for the kids to earn money? Or are you planning to increase your fortune just to be sure? There is a fair idea - if all the money in the world is divided equally between all the inhabitants of the planet, then the money will still eventually flow into the hands of those to whom it belonged before the division. Money knows its owners and strives for those who truly love it and know how to “look after” it.

How are you going to earn a nice sum of a billion green American money? A good education and a prestigious job, of course, will allow you to live comfortably, but you will definitely not be able to reach untold riches. Those who reached the top of the mountain called a billion knew how to work with their heads and for themselves. But we will omit the details of the enrichment process, and for convenience, we will consider the option when a billion falls out of nowhere - all at once. You just need to deliver it to its destination.

The weight of a billion dollars

One billion is a thousand million, a number with nine zeros. One dollar bill weighs 1 gram, regardless of denomination.

By simple calculations, we find out that

A million dollars in $1 bills weighs 1 ton.

In $2 bills - 500 kg.

5 dollar bills - 200 kg.

10 dollar - 100 kg.

20 dollar - 50 kg.

50 dollar - 50 kg.

100 dollar - 10 kg.

If suddenly a million turns out to be in one-cent coins, the weight of wealth will be equal to 100 tons.

You can, of course, consider lighter options for a billion in 500, 1,000, 5,000 or 10,000 banknotes, but this money is prohibited from being exported from the United States. So the cinematic cases with a million dollars are not true.

A billion would be completely unbearable: in $100 bills it weighs 10 tons, and in 5-cent coins it weighs 100,000 tons. Do not take a billion in coins - transporting it is very troublesome, since you will need 2,500 vehicles with a lifting capacity of 40 tons.

How much space does a billion take?

100 million dollars can be packed into a standard cargo block. Austrian artist Michael Markovich is the author of a composition made from 10 million $100 bills. Ten million banknotes are stacked in 12 pallets. The value of this work of art, apparently, is that everyone can see with their own eyes what real wealth looks like. This picture cannot be seen even in a bank, because not a single financial institution does not keep such an amount in cash.

The original unit for measuring a billion was chosen by an unknown author - he wanted to know how many microwaves could hold $1 billion. It turns out that for a billion in 100-dollar bills, 1,000 microwaves with a total volume of 250 square meters would be needed. m. For clarity, in a three-room Khrushchev house there are usually 54 square meters with ceilings of 2.4 m. This means that the total volume of one three-ruble note is 129.6 cubic meters. If it suddenly occurred to someone to store a billion dollars in Khrushchev-era apartment buildings, they would need to fill 2 apartments to capacity. To accommodate $10 billion, a house of 21 apartments would be enough, but for $100 billion, an entire residential block is needed. Now imagine a residential area consisting of Khrushchev-era apartment buildings filled to the brim with rustling green American money.

A freight rail or ship container would hold $4 billion. Some cargo ships could carry 700 of these containers with $2.8 trillion.

Not so long ago, there was only $65 trillion on the planet, from which it would have been possible to build a skyscraper that would be taller than the famous Statue of Liberty. Today, the number of dollars has increased significantly, and in 2013 the population already had $135.5 trillion in their hands, that is, two skyscrapers of dollars.

Infographics

Some infographics to visually represent the full scale of the tragedy.

$10,000

This is a small bundle - ten thousand dollars. About a year of work for the average person on Earth.

1 million dollars

But how many packs of $10,000 do you need to get one million? To earn that amount, the average person only needs 92 years of work.

100 million dollars

Easily fits on a standard wooden pallet.

1 billion dollars

If you want to rob a bank for this amount: take a couple of loaders and a Kamaz truck.

1 trillion dollars

Yes, it is easier to transport such an amount in bitcoins...

By the way, for those who can’t decide how much money they need to be happy, I’ll give you one interesting fact. If you started spending a million dollars every day since the birth of Christ, you would still not have spent a trillion dollars by now...

You can compare a trillion dollars with a Boeing 747-400 and football fields (American and European).

US national debt

But this is how much it amounts to state debt USA. $19 trillion ($19,000,000,000,000) at time of publication. Exact amount debt, in real time, can be viewed on the U.S. website. National Debt Clock.

Billion rubles

Domestic banknotes are lighter than American ones. A million rubles in 100 banknotes weighs 9.3 kg, and in 5,000 banknotes it weighs only 204 grams. In rubles, a billion US dollars at the current exchange rate is about 60 billion. In 5,000 ruble bills, the equivalent of a billion dollars weighs about 14 tons.

How many billionaires are there in the world?

Since 1987, Forbes magazine has annually published rankings of the richest people on Earth. True, not all billionaires receive entry into the list - dictators, their relatives, and owners of capital of unknown origin do not participate in the competition.

John Rockefeller is considered the first dollar billionaire. In 2014, according to Forbes, there were already 1,645 billionaires in the world, owning 6.4 trillion dollars. Of the total population of the planet, billionaires make up 0.000019%. Other sources claim that the number of billionaires is much higher (2,160 according to Wealt-X). Information appears periodically that the number of billionaires has already reached 4,000, but not all of them want to advertise their wealth.

The largest number of rich people live in the United States - 492 billionaires.

There are 152 billionaires in China.

Russia has third place - 111, of which 79 live in Moscow.

The richest man in the world is Bill Gates, who earns $250 every second. The world-respected billionaire's net worth reaches $76 billion. Bill Gates is securely at the top of the Forbes rankings, having been in the top spot 15 times already. Last year, Bill donated $28 billion to charity.

Last season's Forbes winner, 73-year-old Ameriga Movil, moved into second place with $73 billion in wealth. In third place is Amancio Ortega with $64 billion.

Was very successful last year for Mark Zuckerberg. The youngest billionaire increased his fortune by $13.3 billion.

The anti-record of the year belongs to the Brazilian Eike Batista, who managed to reduce his capital from $1.6 billion to $300 million over the course of a year.

There are 172 women on the Forbes list. Most of those on the list earned their capital themselves and did not inherit it. But these statistics do not apply to the fair sex - in the ranking of the 20 richest women, only two ladies managed to get rich on their own.

How do you become billionaires?

More than a thousand billionaires were able to earn a fortune without the support of rich relatives, which means that it is possible to get rich on your own. You need an idea, a great desire and the will to win.

Zhang Yin is a Chinese woman who earned $3.5 billion. The woman made her capital by buying waste paper in garbage dumps. Entrepreneurial Zhang Yin heard from someone that a paper waste business could be very profitable. She borrowed $3,800, bought a factory producing cardboard, and received raw materials from the USA. Later, she bought out landfills in America and established the production of cardboard containers in Hong Kong, and exported boxes of goods to the USA.

Sergey Brin earned $24.9 billion by age 40. The former Muscovite was born into a family of mathematicians and moved to the United States with his parents as a teenager. He was educated at Stanford University and met Larry Page. Together they came up with and created Google, without which we can no longer imagine our lives.

Mark Zuckerberg is just over 30 years old, and his fortune has already reached $29 billion. His brainchild is Facebook, which he refused to sell for a billion dollars. In 2013, the company's shares rose in price, and Zuckerberg became the youngest billionaire on record.

Nicholas Woodman wanted to create a video camera for surfers, but over time the idea grew to include cameras for skiers, rock climbers and other extreme sports enthusiasts. Nicholas and his wife raised their start-up capital by selling shell souvenirs in California. They bought belts in Bali for a couple of dollars and sold them for $60. Woodman's mother contributed another $40,000. A couple of years later, the surfer-businessman received his first order for 100 cameras from a Japanese company. Today, Nicholas Woodman's capital reaches $1.3 billion.

Why aren't we billionaires?

When asked how you would spend a billion dollars, people usually answer the following:

I'll go on a trip around the world, but first I'll tell my boss everything I think about him

I'll fly to the moon if I have enough money.

I will distribute it to children and the poor.

I will buy a plane, yacht, villa, etc.

I will buy several factories.

I'll build a warehouse for money and count it.

I will live on dividends.

I'll become a TV star.

Can you add anything new to this list?

Billionaires, when asked why they need so much money, usually answer that they got involved and cannot stop the influx of capital. A rich man, who is under the supervision of bodyguards every minute and does not let his children play in the sandbox with their peers, can be compared to a dog that they forgot to untie from the cart - you can squeak, but you cannot stop.

In the world of the nouveau riche, happiness is measured by the price of things. When meeting, people from the category “Achievers of everything” evaluate cars, watches on their wrists and suits in order to understand how things are going with their counterparts. Wealthy people In Europe and America, displaying wealth has long been considered indecent; they do not wear Brioni suits and watches that cost more than $200 during working hours. For those for whom wealth did not fall yesterday, a billion-dollar fortune means work, responsibility and freedom of action. Someday, a similar transformation of consciousness will happen in our open spaces, and then it will become clear that a billion is not the equivalent of happiness.

Hello reader! Let's just dream: how much money do you need to live comfortably throughout your life? Imagine suddenly having a billion dollars - What are you going to do? And is this a lot of money for you?

If translated into rubles, this is a little more than 33 billion rubles! Is this a large amount? Will this money be enough to live and no longer think about the lack? Or do you still want to increase your capital? If so, what do you think: will you succeed? After all, there is one very interesting business quote: “If all the money in the world is divided among the entire population, then over time all the money will return to its owners,” that is, if you are destined to own such an amount, then you will own it, if you do not potential and desire to be a rich person, then you will not have a billion dollars.
Why am I all this? Oh yes. Do you still think that higher education and a good job will give you that kind of money? Then I think you need to work as president so that they will also say about you that you steal. But to be honest, is it difficult to earn that kind of money, and not at work? Yes, of course, it’s difficult, even earning $1000 is difficult, but everything is possible, the main thing is to ask yourself whether you are ready to work with your head and achieve your goals or whether you will work for someone and achieve the goals of others.

Now let's watch an inspiring video.

Imagine that a good wizard gives you a billion dollars, but with two conditions. The first is pick-up. The second condition is that the billion is not in bills, but in five-cent coins. Will you take it? Can you take out that much change?

1 billion dollars is a number with nine zeros or a thousand million. Any American banknote weighs 1 gram. By performing some simple arithmetic operations, you can determine what a million dollars weighs:

1 dollar bills ─ 1 ton;
Two dollar bills ─ 500 kg;
Five dollar bills ─ 200 kg;
$10 bills ─ 100 kg;
$20 banknotes ─ 50 kg;
$50 bills ─ 20 kg;
$100 banknotes ─ 10 kg.

In one-cent coins, the weight of a million dollars would be 250 tons. And in coins of five cents ─ 100 tons. There is also a “lighter” million in banknotes in denominations of 500, 1000, 5000 and 10,000 dollars. But these bills are prohibited for export and can only be used in the United States. The heroes of the films probably keep millions exclusively in such bills. How else can you explain that a fragile girl in high heels easily carries a bag with a couple of millions, and men run through the mountains and jungles with a backpack containing 3-5 million dollars?

Case from the movie with several million dollars

Now it’s easy to calculate how much 1 billion dollars weighs. That's 10 tons in hundred dollar bills. What if it's in nickels? 100,000 tons! Of course, it is difficult to imagine such a quantity of coins, but nevertheless, how many trucks will it take to transport this wealth? Long lengths with a lifting capacity of 40 tons will require 2,500 pieces. Do you still want a billion in nickels?

A billion dollars: how much is it?

If you add up $100 million, you get a standard cargo block. The composition of a billion dollars was created by the Austrian artist Michael Marcovici. The material for its manufacture was American dollars. The work of art represents 10 million hundred dollar bills stacked in 12 pallets. “One Billion Dollar” makes viewers think about what they can and cannot do with money, and also see what a billion dollars looks like. According to the author, no bank has so much cash.

Composition “One Billion Dollars”

An unknown author, in order to determine the volume of a billion dollars, used a non-standard unit of measurement - a microwave. You can fit 1 million American dollars into one device (in hundred dollar bills, of course), so for 1 billion you will need 1000 microwaves. The volume of this amount of kitchen appliances is approximately 250 m³. If you take an average three-room apartment ─ Khrushchev, then its area fluctuates around 54 m². With a ceiling height of 2.4 m, the volume of the apartment will be 129.6 m³. In order to place a billion dollars, you will need 2 Khrushchev buildings. For 10 billion you will need 21 three bedroom apartment, and this is already a whole domina, stuffed from top to bottom with green rustling pieces of paper. Well, for 100 billion dollars you will need an entire residential complex.

A cargo container, which is transported by rail or ship, holds $4 billion. A Danish cargo ship is capable of transporting 700 such containers, which in monetary terms is 2.8 trillion. Not long ago there were about 65 trillion US dollars on Earth. If you build a house out of them, you will get a gigantic skyscraper, significantly higher in height than the Statue of Liberty. In a matter of years, the world's population has become significantly richer. In 2017, more than $135.5 trillion was concentrated in private hands. And these are already 2 skyscrapers.

Ruble billion

Russian banknotes are somewhat lighter than American ones. Million Russian rubles in banknotes of 100 rubles weighs about 9 kg 300 grams, and in banknotes of five thousand rubles it weighs even less ─ only 204 grams. And if you weigh a billion dollars in rubles, then 1 American billion is 34 billion rubles. One billion rubles (5 thousand banknotes) weighs 204 kg. This means that a billion dollars in rubles weighs 6936 kg, only 7 tons.

One billion rubles in 5,000 ruble bills weighs 204 kg

How many billionaires are there in the world?

In 1987, Forbes magazine began publishing lists of the richest people on Earth. But even with a capital exceeding $1 billion, you may not find your name in the magazine. If you are a dictator or are related to a dictator, and the origin of your capital is very vague, you should not be on the Forbes list. John Rockefeller is considered to be the very first dollar billionaire.

How to make a billion dollars?

Is it possible to earn a billion dollars without being the heir of Rockefeller or an Arab sheikh? 1080 billionaires ─ clear example. These people proved to the whole world that in order to become rich, you need a good idea and a great desire to implement it.

Chinese woman Zhang Yin is one of the richest ladies: she managed to earn $3.5 billion. And not so long ago, a young woman drove around in an old van in search of abandoned landfills to buy them for next to nothing. Why does she need waste? The Chinese woman was looking for waste paper. She once heard a wise phrase from a businessman that paper waste is an endless forest. You just don't have to grow it. You just need to recycle it ─ and it will be completely different money. It was this businessman who borrowed Zhang Yin 3.8 thousand dollars, with which she purchased a factory in Hong Kong that produces cardboard and paper. First, it purchased raw materials in the USA through intermediaries, then it bought out landfills in the USA. Packing boxes were made from waste paper at the factory. Together with the goods, the boxes were sent to the USA.