Once upon a time there lived a noble robber Robin Hood. He robbed the rich and gave money to the poor. Apparently inspired by this legend, Bloomberg experts compiled Robin Hood name rating, also known as the Hoover index... He compares the wealth of the richest person in each country with the spending of his (or her) government.
The 2018 Robin Hood Index estimates how long "funding" is - in other words, money the richest citizendonated to the government - can help pay for government spending.
To compile the list, Bloomberg experts selected 49 countries of the world with different political regimes and types of expenses and found out which of the citizens of these countries own the largest capital.
Then the net worth of these billionaires as of the end of December last year was compared to the day-to-day cost of running each country. The Robin Hood list includes only 4 women - from Angola, Australia, Chile and the Netherlands.
Robin Hood Index 2018 (Hoover index)
Here's what a complete list of potential Robin Hoods of today looks like.
It turned out that the most expensive governments in the world are Japanese, Polish, American and Chinese. Even "Aliexpress king" Jack Ma with his $ 47.8 billion could not have saved the Chinese Communist Party for more than four days. The Japanese and Polish multibillionaires would have held out the same amount.
And Jeff Bezos, whose fortune is estimated at $ 99 billion, would pay America's government spending in just 5 days.
The best possible Robin Hood on the territory of the CIS countries turned out to be a resident of Georgia Bidzina Ivanishvili. Thanks to his condition, Georgia could “stay afloat” for 430 days. However, the record for the longest government maintenance (in theory) belongs to a resident of Cyprus, John Fredriksen. Thanks to him, the country could live the same life for 441 days.
The fortunes of a Russian entrepreneur Alexey Mordashov would be enough to pay all Russia's expenses within 14 days. A little longer - 36 days - Ukraine would have held out if Rinat Akhmetov had given all his wealth to the treasury. But Belarus was not included in the list.