Forbes Annual List of billionaires of the world The media company said on Tuesday that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos broke the top record for the fourth consecutive year to include 2,755 billionaires.
The ranks of the super-rich are expanding after a year in which the coronovirus epidemic engulfed the world’s economies and endangered people’s livelihoods around the world.
Forbes said this year’s billionaires cost $ 13.1 trillion, up from $ 8 trillion last year.
“Got very, very rich, very rich,” said Forbes Chief Content Officer Randall Lane in an interview with Reuters Video News.
Tesla’s chief executive, Elon Musk, moved up to second on the list from 31st place last year.
Bernard Arnault, CEO of luxury goods company LVMH, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg are among the top five among the world’s richest billionaires.
Investor and business tycoon Warren Buffett dropped out of the top five for the first time in two decades, as tech executives dominate the Forbes rankings.
This year’s list features 493 newcomers, including Whitney Wolfe Herd, chief executive of dating app Bumble, which went public this year.
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