Since the "pipeline donation of soil" in 756 AD, how much property the Vatican has is an eternal mystery, and no one has solved it so far. The state has no habit of publishing its own property and income and expenditure. People only remember 1929 that the Italian government compensated it for $39 million. In the late 1970s, Italian magazines estimated that the Vatican owned more than $36 billion worth of real estate on Italian land. At that time, the deposits of Vatican religious offices (actually banks) reached $35 billion, equivalent to the total national budget of Italy at that time. The Vatican also owns a large number of shares in some European and American countries, and 80% of the investment dividend income comes from the United States and Canada. In recent years, nearly 2 million people from all over the world visit the Vatican every year, and the income from tourism and stamp issuance is considerable. As for the donations from Christians, the treasures collected by the Pope from all over the world in the past 1200 years are even more numerous. It is estimated that the Vatican's total assets should exceed 1000 billion dollars. At present, the foreign exchange reserves of gold alone have reached more than $654.38+000 billion, and the annual fiscal revenue is nearly $200 million. There is no doubt that the Vatican should be the country with the highest per capita income in the world and the richest country in the world at present.