Tesla’s Elon Musk is the richest person in the world with a net worth of $239.3 billion as of 9 February 2022. He is followed by Bernard Arnault family and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
List of 20 richest people in the world 2022: As per the Forbes Real-Time Billionaires Index, Elon Reeve Musk is the richest person in the world with a net worth of $239.3 billion as of 9 February 2022. He is followed by Bernard Arnault & family and Amazon founder 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.
List of 20 Richest Person in the world 2022
he 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.
About 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.
About 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 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 family.
Mukesh Ambani, 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.
So, this was the list of the top 20 richest persons in the world. This list is very important for various competitive examinations and interviews.
