When to Use Milliards?

If we wanted to refer to a thousand million, we simply said “thousand million” or more rarely “milliard”. But in 1974 we officially adopted the US practice of using “billion” to mean a thousand million. The word “milliard” has since gone out of use in British English.

Is milliard bigger than billion?

A "milliard" was what we now call a "billion," or a thousand million. What they called a "billion" was a 1 with 12 zeros after it (which we call a "trillion").

Is there a difference between billion and milliard?

In the U.S. a billion is a thousand million (9 zeros), but in most other countries a billion is traditionally a million million (12 zeros, which is what Americans call a trillion). The British term for what Americans call a billion is a milliard, but that word has almost disappeared.