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The list also marks for the first time a French citizen was in the top position as well as a non-American for the first time since 2013 when the Mexican Carlos Slim Helu was the world's richest person. The list, like in 2022, counted 15 under 30 billionaires with the richest of them being Red Bull heir Mark Mateschitz with a net worth of $34.7 ...
Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital. [2] [3] He is of British and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry.[4] [5] His mother, Maye (née Haldeman), is a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada, and raised in South Africa.
He is the only Indian businessman on Forbes' list of the world's most powerful people. [36] He surpassed Jack Ma, executive chairman of Alibaba Group, [37] to become Asia's richest person with a net worth of $44.3 billion in July 2018. [38] He is also the wealthiest person in the world outside North America and Europe. [39]
In January 2021, Musk, with a net worth of $185 billion, surpassed Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to become the richest person in the world. [16] Bezos reclaimed the top spot the following month. [17] On September 27, 2021, after Tesla stock surged, Forbes announced that Musk had a net worth of over $200 billion, [18] and was the richest person in ...
List of richest Americans in history; List of Australians by net worth. Financial Review Rich List; List of Austrians by net worth; List of Belgians by net worth; List of Brazilians by net worth; List of British billionaires by net worth; List of Canadians by net worth; List of Chinese by net worth; List of Cypriots by net worth; List of Czechs ...
In March 2011, Forbes stated that Slim had maintained his position as the wealthiest person in the world, with his fortune estimated at US$74 billion. [4] In December 2012, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Carlos Slim Helú remained the world's richest person with an estimated net worth of US$75.5 billion. [72]
Since 1987, Gates has been included in the Forbes list of the world's top billionaires. From 1995 to 2017, he held the title of the wealthiest person in the world every year except in 2008 and from 2010 to 2013. In 1999, he became the first ever centibillionaire when his net worth briefly surpassed US$100 billion.
This made him the richest person in the world at the time, surpassing Elon Musk. Musk would surpass Arnaut in June 2023 in net worth with $240 billion, as Arnault's wealth dropped to $190 billion. According to Bloomberg Billionaires Index Arnault was the wealthiest person in the world, with a net worth of about US $218 billion in May 2024. [74]