Malala Yousafzai joins millionaire club

London: The Pakistani young education activist Malala Yousafzai, who survived a near-fatal attack by the Taliban, and her family have become millionaires in less than four years because of the sales of a book regarding her life and appearances on the worldwide speaker circuit.

Malala Yousafzai, 18-year-old, the youngest person to win the Nobel peace prize, shot to international fame after appearing defiant from the killing attempt on a school bus in Swat valley in October 2012 to continue her fight for the rights of girls.

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The youngest Noble Prize holder, Yousafzai, who received medical treatment in Britain where she now lives, is in continuous demand universally, charging $152,000 per speech compared with Desmond Tutu's reported $85,000, as per the US-based Institute for Policy Studies.

As per the representative from Nielsen Book Research, her biography, "I Am Malala", published in 2013, has sold 287,170 copies in Britain along with the total worth of approximately 2.2 million pounds ($3 million) and more than 1.8 million copies worldwide.

Though Yousafzai has set up the Malala Fund to support educational projects for girls in the developing countries, her family also established a company, Salarzai Ltd, in 2013 to secure the rights to her life story.

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Openly available information shows that the London-based company, acknowledged by Yousafzai, her father Ziauddin Yousafzai, and her mother, Toor Pekai, has a net worth of 1.87 million pounds in August 2015, up almost 65% from the last year.

"Since the publication of Malala's book, Malala and her family have donated more than $1 million to charities, mostly for education-focused projects across the world including Pakistan," Yousafzai's family said in a statement emailed to the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

In the beginning of this year, Malala counseled world leaders at a conference in London to commit $1.4 billion to give Syrian refugee children for their easy access to education.