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List of 20 richest people in the world 2022: As per the latest Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Gautam Adani has become the third richest person in the world and the first Asian to grab the position in the top 3 of the list. Adani is now behind Elon Musk and Jess Bezos with a net worth of $137 billion. He has also surpassed the Fresh Business magnate Bernard Arnault, the co-founder of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, a world leader in luxury fashion.
As per the Forbes Real-Time Billionaires Index as well Gautam Adani is now at the fourth position with a net worth of $146 billion while Elon Musk is at the top followed by Bernard Arnault & Family and Jeff Bezos.
As per the estimation of Forbes, there are over 2700 billionaires across the world in 2021, 660 higher than the previous year with a record 493 new billionaires. Although the number of billionaires fell sharply in 2020 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it rebounded and surged in 2021.
| Person | Net worth (Billion Dollars) | Company/Country |
| 1. Elon R Musk | $250.2 | Tesla/ United States |
| 2. Bernard Arnault & Family | $158 | LVMH/ France |
| 3. Jeff Bezos | $153 | Amazon/ United States |
| 4. Gautam Adani & Family | $146 | Infrastructure,commodities/India |
| 5. Bill Gates | $109.9 | Microsoft/ United States |
| 6. Larry Ellison | $102.7 | Software/ United States |
| 7. Warren Buffett | $.99.4 | Berkshire Hathaway/United States |
| 8. Mukesh Ambani | $95.4 | Diversified/ United States |
| 9. Larry Page | $93.7 | Google/United States |
| 10. Sergey Brin | $89.8 | Google/India |
| 11. Steve Ballmer | $84.4 | Microsoft/United States |
| 12. Carlos Slim Helu and family | 78.5 | Telecom/Mexico |
| 13. Michael Bloomberg | $76.8 | Bloomberg LP/ United States |
| 14. Zhong Shanshan | $70.4 | Beverages, Pharmaceuticals/ China |
| 15. Francois Bettencourt Meyers & Family | $69.6 | Lo'real/France |
| 16. Jim Walton | $57.7 | Walmart/United States |
| 17. Julia Koch & family | $56.7 | Koch Industries/United States |
| 17. Charles Koch | $56.7 | Koch Industries/United States |
| 19. Mark Zuckerberg | $56.6 | Facebook/United States |
| 20. Rob Walton | $56.5 | Walmart/United States |
Source:forbes.com (This data and ranking changes due to changes in share price on a daily basis)
Note: The above-mentioned ranking is based on real-time and may change due to the change in the prices of the shares of the listed people.
As of 2021, the USA is the home to the highest numbers of billionaires in the world with 724, followed by China with 698 billionaires and India having 237 billionaires, according to Forbes.
Top 10 Countries with Most Billionaires
1. United States: 724 billionaires
2. China: 698 billionaires
3. India: 237 billionaires
4. Germany: 136 billionaires
5. Russia: 117 billionaires
6. Hong Kong: 71 billionaires
7. Brazil: 65 billionaires
8. Canada: 64 billionaires
9. United Kingdom: 56 billionaires
10. Italy: 51 billionaires
It is to be noted that the U.S. and China are home to over half of the world’s billionaires.
Elon R Musk
Elon Reeve Musk is an engineer, technology entrepreneur, industrial designer, and philanthropist. Elon Musk holds the citizenship of three countries-- South Africa (1971–present), Canada (1989–present), and the United States (2002-present).
He is the founder, CEO, and Chief Designer at SpaceX; co-founder, CEO, and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink; and co-founder and initial co-chairman of OpenAI.
Jeff Bezos
He founded the e-commerce giant company Amazon in 1994 out of his garage in Seattle. He is the CEO of this company and owns an 11.1% stake.
He would have been richer if he had not divorced his wife MacKenzie in 2019 after 25 years of marriage. He had to transfer a quarter of his Amazon stake to his wife. Currently, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest (at the age of just 36) billionaire in the top 20 list.
Gautam Adani
Gautam Adani is the second richest man in Asia and India. His net worth is $89.9 billion. The rise of Adani came with the spike in the shares of his listed group firms and with the fall of RIL shares. He even surpassed the richest woman in the world, Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, and her family.
the richest person in Asia runs oil and gas giant Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), India's one of the most valuable companies. Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) ranked number 1 in Fortune India 500 and #106 in Fortune Global 500 list in 2019.
The 64-year-old Mukesh Ambani has petrochemicals, oil & gas, and telecom sectors are his main source of revenue. Currently, he is the 10th richest man in the world.
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Known for their outstanding wealth these billionaires have built vast empires throughout their career including Tesla, Amazon and Microsoft.
But not all of them seem to want to hold onto their cash, with Microsoft founder Bill Gates announcing on Twitter in July 2022 that he would be donating most of his wealth, which would see him move “down and eventually off of the list of the world’s richest people.”
So, who is the richest person in the world in 2022, what is their net worth and how did they make their fortune?
Here’s everything you need to know.
Elon Musk is the richest person in the world with an estimated fortune of $219 billion.
Born in South Africa, he grew up in Pretoria before moving to America to study at the University of Pennsylvania.
His first software startup, Zip2 was bought in 1999 for $307 million and he went on to co-found Paypal, which sold to eBay in 2002 for $2.5 billion.
He founded SpaceX in 2002 and runs electric vehicle maker Tesla, of which he is a shareholder.
Musk has been married twice and allegedly has eight children.
His last public relationship was with singer Grimes, with whom he has two children, a son named, X Æ A-12 and a daughter called Exa Dark Sideræl.
Twitter will be taking the world’s richest person to court in October 2022, in a bid to hold Musk accountable for the original sale.
Twitter’s lawyer William Savitt has accused Musk of “attempted sabotage”, stating that “he’s doing his best to run Twitter down.”
Jeff Bezos is the second richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $171 billion.
Bezos is originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico and famously started Amazon from a garage in his home.
The company began by selling books, but by the early 2000s it had expanded offering things from electronics to furniture and toiletries.
Bezos owns several apartments in New York City, homes in Washington, California and Washington DC and a ranch in Texas which is the private base for his company Blue Origin which ferried tourists into space in 2021.
According to the New York Post, in August 2022, his superyatch had to be towed from the city of Rotterdam after Dutch residents threatened to egg it if city officials had went ahead and dismantled a landmark bridge so it could fit.
Bezos divorced from his wife MacKenzie in 2019 after 25-yeas of marriage, announcing his new relationship with Lauren Sanchez in the same year.
His company Amazon has been called into question due to its tax avoidance, with the organisation Ethical Consumer calling for an Amazon boycott.
There have also been concerns about treatment of staff: in April 2022, warehouse employees in Staten Island, New York, successfully voted in favour of unionising.
Union leader Chris Smalls said: “We want to thank Jeff Bezos for going to space because while he was up there we were signing people up.”
The Bernard Arnault Family is the third richest family in the world, with an estimated net worth of $158 billion.
The 73-year old French billionaire oversees 70 of the world’s most famous fashion and beauty brands including Louis Voulton, Tiffany & Co and Sephora.
Arnault came from a wealthy family, with his family owning a successful construction business.
He broke into the industry in 1985 after using $15 million from his father’s business to buy Christian Dior.
Currently based in Paris, France, Arnault is married to concert pianist Helene Mercier.
The couple have five children, with four of them - Frédéric, Delphine, Antoine and Alexandre, working in the family business.
Bill Gates is the fourth richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of $129 billion.
Gates made his fortune through the software company Microsoft, which he co-founded with Paul Allen in 1975.
He was married to Melinda Gates for 27-years until their divorce in 2021.
The pair formed the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, of which they still co-chair together.
The foundation supports global health initiatives around the world, including improving global sanitation and working to eradicate diseases such as Malaria and Aids.
On 13 July Gates revealed on Twitter that he planned to give all of his wealth to the foundation.
He said the plan would see him moving “down and eventually off of the list of the world’s richest people.”
The tech mogul added: “I have an obligation to return my resources to society in ways that have the greatest impact for reducing suffering and improving lives.
“And I hope others in positions of great wealth and privilege will step up in this moment too.”
Warren Buffet is the fifth richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $118 million according to Forbes Magazine.
Buffet was the son of a US congressman and bought and sold his first stock at age 11, earning himself the nickname the, ‘Oracle of Omaha.’ He runs Berkshire Hathway which owns companies including Dairy Queen.
In 2006 he pledged to give away 99% of his fortune and so far has given away $45 million. Unlike many of the other billionaires on this list, Buffet still lives in the same house in Omaha Nebraska that he bought in 1958 for $31,50, before he made his fortune.
According to Forbes Magazine the top 10 richest people in the world are:
- Elon Musk: $219 billion
- Jeff Bezos: $171 billion
- Bernard Arnault & family: $158 billion
- Bill Gates: $129 billion
- Warren Buffet: $118 billion
- Larry Page: $111 billion
- Sergey Brin: $107 billion
- Larry Ellison: $106 billion
- Steve Ballmer: $91.4 billion
- Mukesh Ambani: $90.7 billion