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Billion may refer to either of these two values:

  • 1,000,000,000, one thousand million, (9 zero's) for all short scale countries

or

  • 1,000,000,000,000, one million million, (12 zero's) for all long scale countries

Most English-language countries use the short scale. For example:

Australia Canada (English-speaking) Hong Kong (English-speaking) Ireland (English-speaking) New Zealand Philippines (English-speaking: Some short-scale words have been adopted into Filipino.) South Africa(English-speaking) Singapore (English-speaking) United Kingdom United States

A full list a all short and long scale countries can be found on Wikipedia, click the related link below.

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