A quick study in Google trends shows Citizenship by Investment (CBI) and Golden Visas are becoming hugely popular in online search interest over time. While CBI and Golden visas have reached peak interest month, the interest for EB-5 is dropping, after price increase in Nov 2019.
As of 2019, the number of Google indexed pages for CBI/GV/EB-5 has reached 1 billion pages, shows how fast the industry is growing.
The CBI/GV industry is estimated $17 billion industry annually.
The Google numbers represent search interest relative to the highest point on the chart for the given region and time.
- A value of 100 is the peak popularity for the term.
- A value of 50 means that the term is half as popular.
- A score of 0 means that there was not enough data for this term.
Google Indexed Pages
The number of indexed pages in Google for these three industries, has reached a whopping 1 billion pages in Dec 2019. For example there were only 344K pages indexed in Google and today there are 122 million pages, shows how fast competition is growing.
| Google Indexed Pages (millions) | 2019 | 2015 | 2010 |
| Citizenshp by Investment | 122 | 16.2 | 0.34 |
| Golden Visa | 154 | 26.6 | 3.5 |
| EB-5 | 813 | 142 | 48.9 |
Total Google indexed pages as of Dec 2019 is 1.08 billion pages
Interest by Region
Google trends shows Map of interest by Region
The breakdown of top countries in terms of search interest.
Interest for Citizenship by Investment
- Cyprus
- Serbia
- Lebanon
- Bangladesh
- Saudi Arabia
Interest for EB-5
- South Korea
- Taiwan
- Venezuela
- China
- Vietnam
Interest for Golden Visas
- New Zealand
- Switzerland
- Sri Lanka
- Algeria
- Belgium
