In five years, there are five new buildings in the top ten tallest structures, all from Asia

Dubai/Prague - The tallest structure in the world for almost four millennia was the Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt; at the beginning of the 14th century, it was surpassed by Lincoln Cathedral in Britain. For nearly six more centuries, European ecclesiastical buildings dominated the rankings of the tallest structures in the world. This was followed in 1884 by the Washington Monument in the USA, with the Eiffel Tower in Paris holding the title for over 40 years, nearly as long as the Empire State Building in New York, and the last "Western" tallest building was the Chicago skyscraper Sears Tower (now Willis Tower since 2009), which measures 442 meters.

Then Asia took over. First in 1998, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (452 meters), followed by Taipei 101 in Taiwan (509 meters) in 2004, and for the last ten years, since January 4, 2010, the tallest structure in the world is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, standing at 828 meters. The Dubai skyscraper could be surpassed in 2021-2022 by a tower being constructed in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, which is expected to measure around one thousand meters.

In the ranking of the ten tallest buildings in the world, half have changed in the last five years, with four skyscrapers built in China and one in South Korea. For instance, Taipei 101 is now in 11th place, the Petronas Towers in 19th, and the Empire State Building is sitting in 49th place.

The ten tallest buildings currently:

	Name	City/Country	Height (m)	Number of Floors	Year Opened
1.	Burj Khalifa	Dubai/UAE	828	163	2010
2.	Shanghai Tower	Shanghai/China	632	128	2015
3.	Abraj Al Bait	Mecca/Saudi Arabia	601	120	2012
4.	Ping An Finance Center	Shenzhen/China	599	115	2017
5.	Goldin 117	Tianjin/China	596.6	117	2017
6.	Lotte World Tower	Seoul/South Korea	554.5	123	2016
7.	One World Trade Center	New York/USA	541.3	104	2014
8	Canton CTF Finance Centre	Guangzhou/China	530	111	2016
9.	Tianjin CTF Finance Centre	Tianjin/China	530	98	2018
10.	China Zun	Beijing/China	528	108	2018