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The 38th annual Forbes list of the world's billionaires found a record 2,781 billionaires with a total net wealth of $14.2 trillion. This is an increase of 141 members and $2 trillion from 2023, which held the previous record for the highest net worth gain on the list, surpassing the $900 billion record set in 2022.
The Bloomberg Billionaires Index, launched in March 2012, is a daily ranking of the world's 500 richest people based on their net worth. [3] [4] [5] It features a profile of each billionaire, and includes a tool that allows users to compare the fortunes of multiple billionaires. The index is updated every day at the close of trading in New York.
Bernard Arnault. Bernard Jean Étienne Arnault ( French: [bɛʁnaʁ ʒɑ̃ etjɛn aʁno]; born 5 March 1949) is a French businessman, investor and art collector. [2] [3] He is the founder, chairman and CEO of LVMH, the world's largest luxury goods company. Arnault is the third richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$ 194 ...
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 ...
Determining the lower ranks is an even more contentious debate. Vanderbilt left a fortune worth $100 million upon his death in 1877, equivalent to $2.4 billion today. [5] As the United States became the world's leading economic power by the late 19th century, the wealthiest people in America were often also the wealthiest people in the world.
Simone Foxman, World's Richest Families Seeking to Make More Deals on Their Own, Bloomberg, 9 November; The T&C 50: The Richest Families You've Never Heard Of, Town & Country, 17 October 2017, Kerry A. Dolan and Luisa Kroll, "Billionaire Dynasties", Forbes, 21 June 2001
Warren Buffett: $134.3 billion. Bill Gates: $133.6 billion. Steve Ballmer: $130.6 billion. Here’s an even closer look at how the world’s 10 richest people on Forbes’ Billionaires Index list ...
Between 2009 and 2018 (with absence in 2017) the business magazine Forbes had compiled an annual list of the world's most powerful people. The list had one slot for every 100 million people, meaning in 2009 there were 67 people on the list, and by 2018, there were 75. Slots were allocated based on the amount of human and financial resources ...