If you're a budding Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos, take note.

The number of households in the United States worth more than $1million now stands at 10.2million - which is greater than the entire population of Sweden.

The figures for 2018 relate to those with a net worth of $1million to $5million and does not include the value of their primary residence.

But those in that wealth bracket still have a very long way to go until they reach the dizzying heights of Bezos, the world's richest man: according to Forbes, the owner of Amazon is said to have a net worth of $112billion.

(For the record, the richest man is Sweden is Stefan Persson, chairman of fashion company H&M, who's worth $15.8billion.)

While the number of millionaires in the US has increased, the rate of increase has slowed, due to 'weakening global economic growth' and a 'contentious US political environment'.

The number of millionaires in the $1m-$5m bracket in the US climbed to 10.23 million - an increase of 250,000 compared with 2017

The number of households in the US worth more than $1m now is greater than the population of Sweden. The figures for 2018 relate to those with a net worth of $1m to $5m and does not include the value of their primary residence

It marks the 10th consecutive year in which the number of wealthy US households has reached a new high, Spectrem Group reported today.

The number of millionaires in this $1m-$5m bracket climbed to 10.23 million - an increase of 250,000 compared with 2017.

The Ultra High Net Worth market - those worth $5m to $25m - grew to 1,397,000 households, an increase of 47,000 from 2017. Even they have a long way to go before they reach the dizzying height of Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man - worth about $112billion

Meanwhile, the Ultra High Net Worth market - those worth $5million to $25million - grew to 1,397,000 households, an increase of 47,000 from 2017.

(Even that's still peanuts when measured against the world's richest woman Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, with an estimated $44.3bn fortune; she owns a huge stake in L'Oreal.)

'In 2018, the increase in the number of U.S. wealthy households slowed as a result of weakening global economic growth and a contentious U.S. political environment,' said Spectrem Group President George H. Walper, Jr.

'While net household wealth among affluent investors continued to increase last year, it did not match the pace it had experienced in prior years.

'Despite this, the total number of households in the upper wealth segments in the United States has nearly doubled since the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008.'

The report analyzes changes in the number of affluent American households based on net worth, from the Mass Affluent ($100,000 as the minimum) to the $25million plus segment.

It also includes information about their investment habits and behaviors based on advisor usage and occupation

In 2018, there were 31.2 million Mass Affluent households with a net worth between $100,000 and $1 million (NIPR). That is an increase of 200,000 households from 2017.

There are now 173,000 households with a net worth exceeding $25million, an increase of 1,000 households from the previous year.

In the 2018 Market Insights report, there was an increase of 16,000 households with a net worth exceeding $25million, so the 2019 report shows the growth in that wealth segment, as well as in all others, slowed considerably.

Spectrem's findings were based on interviews with more than 2,300 mass affluent households, 4,450 millionaire households, and 1,850 ultra-high net worth investors.

According to Wealth-X these countries had the highest growing number of High Net Worth individuals in 2018 - those classed as having between $1m and $30m in liquid assets

The squeezed middle: How middle class Americans continue to lose ground to the richest of the rich, with the top 1% of earners DOUBLING their share of all income earned in the U.S.

By VALERIE BAUMAN for DailyMail.com

The middle class has a significantly smaller share of overall U.S. income and wealth than it did four decades ago - and it's losing ground to the richest of the rich, who have nearly doubled their share of overall U.S. income since 1980.

In fact, the share of income held by the bottom 90 percent of earners in the U.S. shrank by 12.8 percentage points to 53 percent in 2014 - down from 65.8 percent in 1980, according to the World Inequality Database.

The middle class – or the middle range of earners who fall into the 50 – 90 percent range of all incomes – accounted for 45.9 percent of all U.S. income paid out in 1980. By 2014 that figure fell to 40.4 percent.

The poorest Americans (the bottom 50 percent of all earners) saw the most significant drop in their share of U.S. incomes. That population accounted for 19.9 percent of all income in the U.S. in 1980. By 2014 that number had dropped to 12.6 percent.

This graph illustrates the share of income held by America's richest 1 percent, 10 percent, the 40 percent in the middle class, and the bottom 50 percent of all earners, based on data from the World Inequality Database

The richest 10 percent of Americans accounted for 44.9 percent of all income in this country in 1980 – with the top 1 percent alone accounting for 10.7 percent of all income.

By 2014 that wealthy 10 percent accounted for 67.2 percent of all income, and the top 1 percent made 20.2 percent of all income in the U.S.

The disparity grows even more pronounced when looking at the distribution of wealth in America – a figure that includes wealth accumulated through capital income, investments, home ownership and other sources.

This graph illustrates the share of income held by America's richest 1 percent, 10 percent, the 40 percent in the middle class, and the bottom 50 percent of all earners, based on data from the World Inequality Database

In 1980, the poorest 50 percent of Americans accounted for just 1.1 percent of wealth in America. By 2014 that number hovered around 0 percent.

The middle class (again, those accounting for 50 percent – 90 percent of all wealth) accounted for more than a third (33.8 percent) of the wealth in America in 1980. That figure shrank to 27.2 percent by 2014.

Meanwhile, the richest 10 percent grew from accounting for 65.1 percent of all wealth in 1980 to 73 percent in 2014.

The very richest 1 percent accounted for 22. 5 percent of all wealth in 1980, but 37.2 percent by 2014.

The growth in wage disparity dates back to an era when federal minimum wages were higher, unions were stronger and taxes for the rich were more progressive, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington D.C.-based think tank.