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Large number (thousand million or million million)
Billion is a word (in several languages) for a large number with two distinct definitions: 1,000,000,000, i.e. one thousand million, or 109 (ten to the
Billion
1997 book by Carl Sagan
Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium is a 1997 book by the American astronomer and science popularizer Carl
Billions_and_Billions
2017 video game
They Are Billions is a post-apocalyptic steampunk real-time strategy survival video game developed and published by Numantian Games. Available on Microsoft
They_Are_Billions
Earth history, 1.8 to 0.8 billion years ago
Boring Billion, otherwise known as the Mid-Proterozoic and Earth's Middle Ages, is an informal geological time period between 1.8 and 0.8 billion years
Boring_Billion
Natural number
Mathematics portal 1,000,000,000 ("one billion" on the short scale; "one milliard" on the long scale; one thousand million) is the natural number following
1,000,000,000
Video-sharing platform
approximately 14.8 billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for 1.65 billion USD (equivalent to $2.44 billion in 2025). Google
YouTube
Annual ranking by Forbes magazine
are billionaires, i.e., they are estimated to have a net worth of US$1 billion or more. The list was first published in March 1987. The net worth of each
The_World's_Billionaires
Kyrgyz musical group
D Billions is a children's music group and YouTube channel based in the Kyrgyz Republic, known for producing content for young audiences. The channel's
D_Billions
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List of highest-grossing media franchises
List_of_highest-grossing_media_franchises
2026 Indian film
Vaazha II: Biopic of a Billion Bros (lit. 'Plantain II: Biopic of a Billion Bros') is a 2026 Indian Malayalam-language coming-of-age comedy-drama film
Vaazha II: Biopic of a Billion Bros
Vaazha_II:_Biopic_of_a_Billion_Bros
Topics referred to by the same term
Look up Billion, billion, or bilion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Billion is a name for a large number. It may refer specifically to: 1,000,000
Billion_(disambiguation)
reached: 1 billion in 1804 (994,234,545) 2 billion in 1927 (1,998,342,567) 3 billion in 1960 (2,997,567,890) 4 billion in 1975 (3,990,234,567) 5 billion in 1987
World_population_milestones
Conspiracy theory
The Golden Billion (Russian: золотой миллиард, romanized: zolotoy milliard) is a conspiracy theory that a cabal of global elites are pulling strings to
Golden_billion
List of YouTube videos that have been viewed the most
three billion views in August 2017, four billion in October 2017, five billion in April 2018, six billion in February 2019, and seven billion in October
List of most-viewed YouTube videos
List_of_most-viewed_YouTube_videos
Cryptocurrency theft
On 29 October 2026, 6.3 billion US dollars worth of digital currency was stolen from Binance, a cryptocurrency exchange, allegedly by the North Korea-linked
2026_Binance_hack
Upcoming spy film
Billion Dollar Spy is an upcoming spy thriller film directed by Amma Asante and written by Stephen Gaghan and Ben August. It is based on the 2015 non-fiction
Billion_Dollar_Spy_(film)
Denial-of-service attack at XML parsers, exploiting entity expansion
In computer security, a billion laughs attack is a type of denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) which is aimed at parsers of XML documents. It is also
Billion_laughs_attack
Topics referred to by the same term
7 billion or Seven billion may refer to: 7 Billion Actions, A campaign to commemorate the world's population reaching 7 billion 7 Billion Needles, A Japanese
7_Billion
1973 studio album by Alice Cooper
Billion Dollar Babies is the sixth studio album by American rock band Alice Cooper, released on February 27, 1973. The album became the best selling Alice
Billion_Dollar_Babies
2006 book by C. M. Kösemen
All Tomorrows: A Billion Year Chronicle of the Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man is a 2006 science fiction and speculative evolution book written
All_Tomorrows
American scientist and science communicator (1934–1996)
with the catchphrase "billions and billions", although he never actually said it. He rather used the term "billions upon billions." Richard Feynman used
Carl_Sagan
1967 British film by Ken Russell
Billion Dollar Brain is a 1967 British espionage film directed by Ken Russell and based on the 1966 novel Billion-Dollar Brain by Len Deighton. The film
Billion_Dollar_Brain
Different meanings for numbers
short scale billion is one thousand million (109), whereas in the long scale, billion is one million million (1012), making the word 'billion' a false friend
Long_and_short_scales
American technology company
dedicated to multiple companies and some to a single client. Its $1.6 billion supercomputer data center for Nvidia in Plano, Texas, has been described
CoreWeave
Indian multinational technology company
Platforms for ₹435.74 billion (US$5.88 billion). According to this deal, while Jio Platforms retained ₹149.76 billion (US$2.02 billion), the parent company
Jio_Platforms
Messaging and VoIP service owned by Meta
approximately US$19.3 billion. It became the world's most popular messaging application in 2015, with 900 million users, and had more than 2 billion active users
American financier and con artist (1938–2021)
mastermind of the largest-known Ponzi scheme in history, worth an estimated $65 billion. He was at one time chairman of the Nasdaq stock exchange. Madoff's firm
Bernie_Madoff
American businessman (born 1964)
from 2017 to 2021, and in 2026, his net worth was approximately US$284 billion. He is commonly considered part of the global elite. Bezos was born in
Jeff_Bezos
Industrialist and technologist (born 1971)
2026; as of November 2026, Forbes estimates his net worth to be $849.7 billion. Musk was born into the wealthy Musk family in Pretoria, South Africa.
Elon_Musk
English association football league
rights were worth £5.3 billion, surpassing £5.1 billion domestic rights for the first time. As of 2023–24, clubs received £2.8 billion in central payments
Premier_League
2007 book by Paul Collier
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It is a 2007 book by Paul Collier, Professor of Economics at Oxford
The_Bottom_Billion
American online genealogy company
$4.7 billion. As of 2022, the company said it had provided access to 30 billion historical records, tripling its November 2018 figure of 10 billion records
Ancestry.com
American financial technology company
Miami and San Francisco. As of June 2026, Ramp was valued at $44 billion with $1 billion in annualized revenue. Ramp was founded in March 2019 by Eric Glyman
Ramp_(company)
Chinese multinational technology company
on the New York Stock Exchange raised US$25 billion, giving the company a market value of US$231 billion and, by far, then the largest IPO in world history
Alibaba_Group
2026 video game
1 in 8 Billion (Korean: 80억 분의 1) is a text-based life simulation game developed by an independent video game developer, Jin's Earth, using Claude Opus
1_in_8_Billion
Total number of living humans on Earth
population to reach a billion and only 218 more years from there to reach 8 billion. As of 2026, the world population is approximately 8.3 billion. However, this
World_population
Estimated global human population
projected that the world population, 8 billion as of 2023[update], would peak around the year 2084 at about 10.3 billion, and then start a slow decline, assuming
Human_population_projections
Indian multinational technology company
US$200 billion, becoming the first Indian IT company to achieve this valuation. However, its market capitalisation declined to under US$100 billion in June
Tata_Consultancy_Services
Hungarian and American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)
September 2026[update], he had a net worth of US$8.6 billion. Soros has donated more than $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations. In 2020, Forbes called
George_Soros
Category 3 Atlantic hurricane in 2012
150 miles (1,850 km). The storm inflicted nearly US$70 billion in damage (equivalent to $98 billion in 2025), and killed 254 people in eight countries, from
Hurricane_Sandy
2005 Canadian film
Bailey's Billion$ is a 2005 Canadian family comedy film produced and directed by David Devine and starring Dean Cain, Laurie Holden, Jennifer Tilly, Tim
Bailey's_Billion$
Australian businesswoman (born 1954)
Rinehart is Australia's richest person. Her wealth reached around A$29 billion in 2012, at which point she overtook Christy Walton as the world's richest
Gina_Rinehart
American multinational conglomerate holding company
8 billion, followed by the acquisition of an additional 41.4% of the company for $8.2 billion in 2023, and the remaining 20% in 2024 for $3 billion. It
Berkshire_Hathaway
American artificial intelligence company
but plans an initial public offering in November 2026. Valued at $965 billion in a May 2026 Series H capital raise, Anthropic is the world's most valuable
Anthropic
NFL team in the Dallas metropolitan area
valuable sports team at $4 billion, a record they have held since by also being the first sports team to reach a worth of $10 billion dollars. As of late 2025
Dallas_Cowboys
American investment firm
Arabian government. Kushner's firm received commitments of more than $3 billion by the end of 2021 to invest in American and Israeli companies that are
Affinity_Partners
9 billion, American rapper Jay-Z with $2.5 billion, American rapper Kanye West with $2.7 billion, sports executive Michael Jordan with $3.5 billion, Jamaican-Canadian
Black_billionaires
American artificial intelligence company
2026, OpenAI closed a funding round with a post-money valuation of US$852 billion, making it one of the most valuable AI pure play companies in the world
OpenAI
American pharmaceuticals company
institutions to share data, and was merged with Ciox to become a US$7 billion company. Roivant's technology portfolio also includes Lokavant, which integrates
Roivant_Sciences
2020 non-fiction book about office space leasing company WeWork
Billion Dollar Loser is a 2020 book by Reeves Wiedeman about WeWork and its founder Adam Neumann. The book combines interviews with WeWork employees with
Billion_Dollar_Loser
2018 book by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope
Billion Dollar Whale (original title: Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World) is a non-fiction book by The Wall
Billion_Dollar_Whale
American multinational financial company
asset management and financial services. As of 2023, the company had $426 billion of assets under management. Carlyle specializes in private equity, real
The_Carlyle_Group
Cowboys at $13 billion, followed by the Los Angeles Rams ($10.5 billion) and New York Giants ($10.1 billion) also topping $10 billion, with the average
Forbes list of the most valuable NFL teams
Forbes_list_of_the_most_valuable_NFL_teams
French multinational luxury goods conglomerate
LVMH became the first European company to surpass a valuation of $500 billion. In 2023, the company was ranked 47th in the Forbes Global 2000. LVMH controls
LVMH
2022 memoir by Mike Rinder
A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology is a 2022 memoir by Mike Rinder. He was raised as a Scientologist, spent 50
A_Billion_Years
American private equity firm
raised in 2004 with $3.6 billion of commitments. The firm's third fund, Silver Lake Partners III, was raised in 2007 with $9.6 billion of commitments. Also
Silver_Lake_(investment_firm)
2024 Indian Malayalam-language film
Vaazha: Biopic of a Billion Boys (transl. Plantain) is a 2024 Indian Malayalam-language coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Anand Menen and written
Vaazha: Biopic of a Billion Boys
Vaazha:_Biopic_of_a_Billion_Boys
2013 Indian film by Rohit Shetty
records in India and abroad, becoming the quickest film to collect ₹1 billion (US$17.07 million) net domestically. The film surpassed 3 Idiots (2009)
Chennai_Express
Unofficial Chinese shopping holiday
1 billion, bringing the Chinese total to US$44.5 billion total sales volume in 2017. Alibaba shoppers exceeded 213.5 billion yuan (US$30.7 billion) in
Singles'_Day
Social networking service owned by Meta Platforms
14. As of December 2023[update], Facebook reported approximately 3.07 billion monthly active users worldwide. It was the most downloaded mobile application
American private equity company
assets. As of 2025[update], the company had $840 billion of assets under management, including $392 billion invested in credit, including mezzanine capital
Apollo_Global_Management
2021 German television series
The Billion Dollar Code is a 2021 German television miniseries starring Björn Freiberg, Seumas F. Sargent and Leonard Scheicher. Based on true events
The_Billion_Dollar_Code
Chinese conglomerate and holding company
with the news site QQ.com. The company surpassed a market value of US$500 billion in 2018, becoming the first Asian technology company to cross this valuation
Tencent
Canadian-American asset management company
asset management business into a new publicly traded company worth US$80 billion. Three months earlier, Brookfield had hinted at the idea of separating
Brookfield_Asset_Management
most successful. Titanic earned $1.2 billion from video and DVD sales and rentals, in addition to the $2.2 billion it grossed in theaters. While complete
List of highest-grossing films
List_of_highest-grossing_films
SpaceX satellite Internet constellation
US$10 billion. By the end of 2025, Starlink had become SpaceX's largest business segment, generating $11.4 billion in revenue and $4.4 billion in operating
Starlink
American investment management firm
31, 2026, KKR had assets under management (AUM) of approximately $758 billion, making it one of the world's largest alternative asset management firms
KKR_&_Co.
"Mukesh Ambani becomes world's 5th richest man, fortune swells over $2 billion in a day". India Today. July 22, 2020. Retrieved 2020-12-20. "The Top 10
List_of_Indians_by_net_worth
Online collaborative vector graphics editor
presentation slides. By April 2020, Figma was valued at more than $2 billion. and $10 billion by the end of May 2021. On September 15, 2022, Adobe announced
Figma
How data centre buildout is being financed
Alphabet were expected to spend $764 billion on AI infrastructure. Their Chinese counterparts were second at $102 billion. The Wall Street Journal reported
AI_build-out_financing
European wide-body airliner
A3XX project was presented in 1994 and Airbus launched the €9.5 billion (US$10.7 billion) A380 programme on 19 December 2000. The first prototype was unveiled
Airbus_A380
Japanese investment holding company
and industries ranging from the internet to automation. With over $100 billion in capital at its onset, SoftBank's Vision Fund is the world's largest
SoftBank_Group
2018 video game
7 Billion Humans is a puzzle video game developed and published by American studio Tomorrow Corporation. It was released on August 23, 2018, for Microsoft
7_Billion_Humans
American multinational conglomerate (1892–2024)
December 31, 2016 $26.1 billion December 31, 2017 $38.6 billion December 31, 2018 $35.6 billion December 31, 2019 $39.6 billion In 2018, GE announced that
General_Electric
Electronics company of Taiwan
Billion Electric Co. Ltd. (Taiex: #3027), based in Taiwan, is an electronics company founded in 1973. Their range of ADSL modem/routers were introduced
Billion_Electric
American multinational technology company
approximately 14.8 billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for 1.65 billion USD (equivalent to $2.44 billion in 2025). Google
American multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation
Eliquis (apixaban) ($7.9 billion in 2025 revenues, 13% of total revenues), Prevnar (a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine) ($6.5 billion in 2025 revenues, 10%
Pfizer
British multinational neobank
In 2016, the company reached around 300,000 users, processing almost £1 billion in transactions. Revolut then launched a subscription-based app in June
Revolut
Multinational online clothing retailer
US$32 billion in revenue. Shein was valued at $100 billion after a funding round in April 2022. As of February 2025[update], it was valued at $30 billion.
Shein
Japanese-bred Thoroughbred racehorse
in the Takarazuka Kinen. In what would later be referred to as the "12 billion yen incident", Gold Ship appeared to panic in the starting stalls. He lost
Gold_Ship
American video game company
Silver Lake and Affinity Partners in September 2025 for $55 billion, including $20 billion in debt equity. The buyout was completed on August 4, 2026,
Electronic_Arts
Scientific dating of the Earth
The age of Earth is estimated to be 4.54 ± 0.05 billion years. This age corresponds to the final stages of Earth's accretion and planetary differentiation
Age_of_Earth
1977 film by Jonathan Kaplan
Mr. Billion is a 1977 action comedy/action-adventure film directed by Jonathan Kaplan. It is the Hollywood debut of Terence Hill, and the last film of
Mr._Billion
Private startup companies valued at over US$1 billion
unicorn is a privately held startup company with a current valuation of US$1 billion or more. Notable lists of unicorn companies are maintained by The Wall
List of unicorn startup companies
List_of_unicorn_startup_companies
Set of units to describe small values
measurement. Commonly used are parts-per-million – ppm, 10−6 parts-per-billion – ppb, 10−9 parts-per-trillion – ppt, 10−12 parts-per-quadrillion – ppq
Parts-per_notation
Long-term future of planet Earth
supercontinent in 250–350 million years. Sometime in the next 1.5–4.5 billion years, Earth's axial tilt may begin to undergo chaotic variations, with
Future_of_Earth
2013 single by JLS
"Billion Lights" is a song by British boy band JLS. The song is the only single (other than their 2012 charity single "Proud") from their greatest hits
Billion_Lights
Shares offered by a very large company in terms of value
defined as stocks with a market cap of at least $200 billion, which is equivalent to at least $219 billion in 2025 using GDP deflator adjustment. Stock Investing
Megacap_stock
The Third Billion was the term used to represent the approximately one billion women in both developed and industrialized nations whose economic lives
The_Third_Billion
Chinese e-commerce company
The company is headquartered in Beijing. With revenues more than US194 billion in 2025, JD.com is China's largest retailer by revenue, and ranks 47 on
JD.com
Stock in an unlisted private company
$375 billion, representing 18 times the level of transactions closed in 2003. Additionally, U.S.-based private-equity firms raised $215.4 billion in investor
Private_equity
Natural number
is used, the limit might be extended to 4,294,967,295. Pronounced two billion one hundred forty-seven million four hundred eighty-three thousand six
2,147,483,647
Galaxy containing the Solar System
140283, has been estimated at either 13.7 ± 0.7 billion years, 12.2 ± 0.6 billion years, or 12.0 ± 0.5 billion years. According to observations using adaptive
Milky_Way
Dutch energy and commodity trading company
that Vitol made a payout of $2.9 billion to all its partners in 2021, increasing to $6.4 billion in 2023 and $10.6 billion in 2024. The company has been
Vitol
Combined military forces of Germany
reserve personnel (2025). With the German military budget at $127 billion (€108.2 billion) for 2026, the Bundeswehr is the fourth-highest-funded military
Bundeswehr
paid Israel 3 billion marks (around US$714 million according to 1953–1955 conversion rates or equivalent to approximately US$7 billion in modern currency)
Economy_of_Israel
Webcomic
Kill Six Billion Demons (also referred to as Kill 6 Billion Demons, K6BD, or KSBD) is a new weird/fantasy webcomic, written and illustrated by Tom Bloom
Kill_Six_Billion_Demons
Billions is an American drama television series created by Brian Koppelman, David Levien, and Andrew Ross Sorkin, and starring Paul Giamatti and Damian
List_of_Billions_episodes
German multinational conglomerate
approximately 320,000 people worldwide and reported a global revenue of around €78 billion in 2023. The company is a component of the DAX and Euro Stoxx 50 stock
Siemens
Largest dwarf planet in the Solar System
orbit, ranging from 30 to 49 astronomical units (4.5 to 7.3 billion kilometres; 2.8 to 4.6 billion miles) from the Sun. Light from the Sun takes 5.5 hours
Pluto
travel, tourism, insurance
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