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A Forbes notes that last year a new billionaire was born about every 17 hours, the list was joined by 493 new billionaires in one year, the richest of which was 38.2 billion Miriam Adelson, who inherited the casino empire of his father, Sheldon Adelson. Overall, 86% of the billionaires on the list have become richer than a year ago.
The paper also notes that the total wealth of the 10 richest people in the world is $ 1.15 trillion, up from 686 billion last year. And European billionaires have become a thousand billion dollars richer in a year.
According to the list, the 10 richest people in the world:
- Jeff Bezos, $ 177 billion
- Elon Musk, $ 151 billion
- Bernard Arnault, $ 150 billion
- Bill Gates, $ 124 billion
- Mark Zuckerberg, $ 97 billion
- Warren Buffett, $ 96 billion
- Larry Ellison, $ 93 billion
- Larry Page, $ 91.5 billion
- Sergey Brin, $ 89 billion
- Mukesh Ambani, $ 84.5 billion
On the Forbes list ranking of the richest women He is led by Francoise Bettencourt Meyers and his family, who have amassed $ 73.6 billion in assets thanks to L’Oreal. They are followed by Alice Walton with the Walmart chain and $ 61.8 billion, followed by Jeff Bezos ’ex-wife MacKenzie Scott with $ 53 billion.
Filtered by Hungarian billionaires, we get that two Hungarian businessmen are also on the list:
the richest of them is Lőrinc Mészáros with a fortune of $ 1.5 billion, making him the 2035th richest man in the world. Also on the list is OTP leader Sándor Csányi, whose $ 1.2 billion fortune makes him the 2378th richest man in the world.
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