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In the 32nd annual Forbes list of the world's billionaires, the aggregate wealth of the top 20 richest people on Earth amounted to about 13 percent of all billionaires' fortunes combined. [16] A record of 2,208 billionaires were in the ranking and the total wealth was $9.1 trillion, up 18% since 2017.
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 ...
The 20 richest people were worth $406 billion then, a fraction of the $3 trillion they're worth today. Musk alone is worth $454 billion today, exceeding the combined wealth of the top 20 in 2000.
It tracks the 500 wealthiest people in the world. [4] The ranking was designed to provide a more transparent and accountable presentation of the world's biggest personal fortunes. [7] At first, the index only tracked the 20 richest people in the world, and then expanded to 100, 200, 400 and later 500 in October 2016. [8]
The rich keep getting richer—and drastically so. The five richest people in the world doubled their combined net worth from $405 billion to $869 billion in just over three years, a new Oxfam ...
Per Forbes (April 2024) [1]; Rank Rank per capita Country/Territory Billionaires Rate - World 2,781: 0.343 1 11 United States 813: 2.420 2 53 China 406: 0.288 3 58 India 200: 0.144
Jeff Bezos has overtaken Elon Musk to reclaim his spot as the richest person on Earth. The Amazon founder’s worth is now $200bn, compared to Mr Musk’s $198bn, according to the Bloomberg ...
Before the age of computerized records and the internet, measuring the wealth of the world’s 1% was a tedious, painstaking and inexact science — but even back then, some people were just too ...