The 100 Richest People in the World
The 100 Richest People in the World
These are The 100 Richest People in the World. The following is a dynamically updated, real-time list of the world’s 100 wealthiest people. For much of the last two decades, Bill Gates dominated this list, but in recent years, he has been surpassed by Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. Warren Buffett, Bernard Arnault, and Amancio Ortega are among the other perennial top billionaires. Will you ever be on the list of the world’s wealthiest people?
Nonetheless, Forbes discovered over 1,000 billionaires who are wealthier than they were a year ago. Over the last year, 236 newcomers have become billionaires, including the first from Barbados, Bulgaria, Estonia, and Uruguay. America remains the world’s wealthiest country, with 735 billionaires worth a total of $4.7 trillion, including Elon Musk, who tops the World’s Billionaires list for the first time.
The complete list of the world’s billionaires, as well as our methodology, can be found below. Check out our real-time billionaire’s rankings for daily updated net worths of all The 100 Richest People in the World. So let’s take a look at that in the list below.
The 100 Richest People in the World
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| RANK | NAME | TOTAL NET WORTH | COUNTRY | INDUSTRY |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elon Musk | $268.10 billion | United States | Technology |
| 2 | Jeff Bezos | $200 billion | United States | Technology |
| 3 | Bernard Arnault | $192.6 billion | France | Consumer |
| 4 | Bill Gates | $143 billion | United States | Technology |
| 5 | Larry Page | $131 billion | United States | Technology |
| 6 | Gautam Adani | $122 Billion | India | Industrial |
| 7 | Warren Buffett | $113 billion | United States | Diversified |
| 8 | Sergey Brin | $112 billion | United States | Technology |
| 9 | Mukesh Ambani | $99.4 billion | India | Energy |
| 10 | Larry Ellison | $97.6 | United States | Technology |
| 11 | Steve Ballmer | $92 billion | United States | Technology |
| 12 | Michael Bloomberg | $82.0 billion | United States | Media |
| 13 | Francoise Bettencourt Meyers | $74.8 billion | France | Consumer |
| 14 | Mark Zuckerberg | $74.2 billion | United States | Technology |
| 15 | Changpeng Zhao | $77.3 billion | Canada | Finance |
| 16 | Zhong Shanshan | $71.5 billion | China | Diversified |
| 17 | Carlos Slim | $69.8 billion | Mexico | Diversified |
| 18 | Amancio Ortega | $66.4 billion | Spain | Retail |
| 19 | Jim Walton | $63.1 billion | United States | Retail |
| 20 | Rob Walton | $62.6 billion | United States | Retail |
| 21 | Alice Walton | $61.2 billion | United States | Retail |
| 22 | Charles Koch | $59.8 billion | United States | Industrial |
| 23 | Julia Flesher Koch | $59.8 billion | United States | Industrial |
| 24 | Michael Dell | $55.8 billion | United States | Technology |
| 25 | Phil Knight | $54.9 billion | United States | Consumer |
| 26 | Zeng Yuqun | $51.6 billion | Hong Kong | Industrial |
| 27 | Jacqueline Badger Mars | $51.3 billion | United States | Food and Beverage |
| 28 | John Mars | $51.3 billion | United States | Food and Beverage |
| 29 | Francois Pinault | $49.8 billion | France | Consumer |
| 30 | Ma Huateng | $48.6 billion | China | Technology |
| 31 | MacKenzie Scott | $47.9 billion | United States | Technology |
| 32 | Zhang Yiming | $44.5 billion | China | Technology |
| 33 | Jack Ma | $38.9 billion | China | Technology |
| 34 | Len Blavatnik | $38.8 billion | United States | Diversified |
| 35 | Klaus-Michael Kuehne | $38.2 billion | Germany | Industrial |
| 36 | Azim Premji | $35.9 billion | India | Technology |
| 37 | Giovanni Ferrero | $35.7 billion | Italy | Food and Beverage |
| 38 | Pallonji Mistry | $34.9 billion | Ireland | Industrial |
| 39 | Stephen Schwarzman | $33.1 billion | United States | Finance |
| 40 | He Xiangjian | $32.8 billion | China | Consumer |
| 41 | Leonardo Del Vecchio | $32.2 billion | Italy | Consumer |
| 42 | William Ding | $31.3 billion | China | Technology |
| 43 | Leonard Lauder | $31.2 billion | United States | Consumer |
| 44 | Leonid Mikhelson | $30.9 billion | Russia | Energy |
| 45 | Tadashi Yanai | $30.9 billion | Japan | Retail |
| 46 | Li Ka-shing | $30.6 billion | Hong Kong Real | Estate |
| 47 | Takemitsu Takizaki | $30.4 billion | Japan | Technology |
| 48 | Alain Wertheimer | $30.3 billion | France | Consumer |
| 49 | Gerard Wertheimer | $30.3 billion | France | Consumer |
| 50 | Dieter Schwarz | $30.0 billion | Germany | Retail |
| 51 | Vladimir Potanin | $29.7 billion | Russia | Commodities |
| 52 | Shiv Nadar | $29.4 billion | India | Technology |
| 53 | Miriam Adelson | $29.1 billion | United States | Entertainment |
| 54 | Alexey Mordashov | $27.2 billion | Russia | Industrial |
| 55 | Ken Griffin | $27.0 billion | United States | Finance |
| 56 | Vladimir Lisin | $26.6 billion | Russia | Industrial |
| 57 | German Larrea | $25.9 billion | Mexico | Commodities |
| 58 | Eric Schmidt | $25.2 billion | United States | Technology |
| 59 | James Simons | $25.1 billion | United States | Finance |
| 60 | Dan Gilbert | $24.9 billion | United States | Real Estate |
| 61 | Li Shu Fu | $24.3 billion | China | Industrial |
| 62 | Lee Shau Kee | $23.9 billion | Hong Kong | Real Estate |
| 63 | Yang Huiyan | $23.9 billion | China | Real Estate |
| 64 | Susanne Klatten | $23.7 billion | Germany | Industrial |
| 65 | Henry Cheng | $23.4 billion | Hong Kong | Retail |
| 66 | Pang Kang | $22.8 billion | China | Food and Beverage |
| 67 | Wang Wei | $22.8 billion | China | Services |
| 68 | Radhakishan Damani | $22.7 billion | India | Retail |
| 69 | Carl Icahn | $22.7 billion | United States | Diversified |
| 70 | Jorge Paulo Lemann | $22.6 billion | Brazil | Food and Beverage |
| 71 | Stefan Quandt | $22.4 billion | Germany | Industrial |
| 72 | Iris Fontbona | $22.3 billion | Chile | Commodities |
| 73 | Huang Shilin | $22.0 billion | China | Industrial |
| 74 | Colin Huang | $22.0 billion | China | Technology |
| 75 | Abigail Johnson | $21.8 billion | United States | Finance |
| 76 | John Menard | $21.8 billion | United States | Retail |
| 77 | Thomas Peterffy | $21.8 billion | United States | Finance |
| 78 | Lukas Walton | $21.6 billion | United States | Retail |
| 79 | Vagit Alekperov | $21.6 billion | Russia | Energy |
| 80 | Jensen Huang | $21.6 billion | United States | Technology |
| 81 | Thomas Frist | $21.5 billion | United States | Health Care |
| 82 | Andrew Forrest | $21.4 billion | Australia | Commodities |
| 83 | Qin Yinglin | $21.3 billion | China | Food and Beverage |
| 84 | Gina Rinehart | $21.3 billion | Australia | Commodities |
| 85 | Wang Chuan-Fu | $21.2 billion | China | Consumer |
| 86 | Masayoshi Son | $21.1 billion | Japan | Technology |
| 87 | Alisher Usmanov | $21.0 billion | Russia | Diversified |
| 88 | Lakshmi Mittal | $21.0 billion | India | Commodities |
| 89 | Ernesto Bertarelli | $20.8 billion | Switzerland | Diversified |
| 90 | Zhang Zhidong | $20.6 billion | China | Technology |
| 91 | Elaine Marshall | $20.5 billion | United States | Industrial |
| 92 | Dustin Moskovitz | $20.5 billion | United States | Technology |
| 93 | James Dyson | $20.5 billion | United Kingdom | Consumer |
| 94 | Aliko Dangote | $20.4 billion | Nigeria | Industrial |
| 95 | Stefan Persson | $20.0 billion | Sweden | Retail |
| 96 | Gennady Timchenko | $19.7 billion | Russia | Diversified |
| 97 | Peter Woo | $19.7 billion | Hong Kong | Real Estate |
| 98 | Budi Hartono | $19.7 billion | Indonesia | Diversified |
| 99 | Guillaume Pousaz | $19.4 billion | Switzerland | Technology |
| 100 | Li Xiting | $19.3 billion | Singapore | Health Care |