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The World's Billionaires 2024 edition was 26th annual ranking of The World's Billionaires by Forbes magazine. The list estimated the net worth of the world's richest people, excluding royalty and dictators, as of February 14, 2024. It was released online on March 7, 2024.
For the third year in a row, Bill Gates was named the richest man in the world by Forbes ' 2016 list of the world's billionaires. [20] This is the 17th time that the founder of Microsoft had claimed the top spot. Amancio Ortega rose from last year's position of number four to second. [21]
In December 2012, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Carlos Slim Helú remained the world's richest person with an estimated net worth of US$75.5 billion. [72] On 5 March 2013, Forbes stated that Slim was still maintaining his first-place position as the wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$73 billion. [4]
A little over a century ago, in 1916, legendary robber baron John D. Rockefeller became the world's first billionaire -- probably. Before the age of computerized records and the internet, measuring...
Mark Zuckerberg is currently the third richest person in the world with a net worth of approximately $18079 billion. He started Facebook in 2004 when he was 19 years old and is now the co-founder ...
Mark Zuckerberg became the world's second-richest person for ... Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004 when he was 19 and took it public in 2012 at age 28. Meta now stands as the world's sixth ...
The Bloomberg Billionaires Index, launched in March 2012, is a daily ranking of the world's 500 richest people based on their net worth. [3] [4] [5] It features a profile of each billionaire, and includes a tool that allows users to compare the fortunes of multiple billionaires. The index is updated every day at the close of trading in New York ...
Here’s an even closer look at how the world’s 10 richest people on Forbes’ Billionaires Index list got to where they are. 1. Elon Musk. Elon Musk has a net worth of $214.1 billion.