The 2021 Trillion Dollar Quiz: How Many Zeros In a Trillion?

A trillion is a million million, or ten to the twelfth power, which means it’s written 1 and 12 zeros.

Facebook's Trillion 2021 fact:

As of June 28, 2021, Facebook's value went over the $1-trillion-mark for the first time in its history.

There are no living trillionaires - yet. As of June 1, 2023, Elon Musk has retaken the title of the world's wealthiest person, surpassing, once again, luxury tycoon Bernard Arnault. Musk's wealth is now valued at roughly $192.3 billion, while Arnault's is approximately $186.6 billion.

When will we see the world's first trillionaire?

In its 2014 Global Wealth Report, Credit Suisse predicted 11 trillionaires walking the earth within two generations.

In the ordinary US/UK meaning, a trillion is 1,000 billion.

Trillion Fun Fact

It’s worth mentioning that older British and Australian “long scale,” a trillion would mean one million billion - but long scale terms are not commonly used to describe wealth.

As of January 3, 2022, Apple Inc is worth $3 trillion, and Microsoft is closely trailing behind, Amazon and Alphabet Inc. are worth over $1.5 trillion each, and Facebook is worth around $1 trillion.

Tesla became the sixth company in US history worth $1 trillion on Oct. 25, 2021. It's also the second-fastest to achieve that milestone after Facebook. The newly-named Meta Platforms first passed the $1 trillion barrier on June 28, 2021.

Will Elon Musk end world hunger?

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk posted on Twitter on Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021, "If WFP (UN World Food Programme) can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6 billion will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it." That sum would equate to roughly 2% of Musk's net wealth.

What did the World Food Programme ask from Musk?

Musk's tweet came after WFP director David Beasley challenged the world's two richest men, Jeff Bezos and Musk, to "step up now, on a one-time basis" to help solve world hunger in an interview with CNN. Beasley replied to Musk's post on Twitter, saying, "Your team can review and work with us to be confident of such. $6 billion will not solve world hunger, but it WILL prevent geopolitical instability and mass migration and save 42 million people on the brink of starvation."