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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.
It is based on an annual assessment of wealth and assets by Forbes and by data from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The Forbes 400 Richest Americans list has been published annually since 1982. The combined net worth of the 2020 class of the 400 richest Americans was $3.2 trillion, up from $2.7 trillion in 2017. [1]
Having been first listed on the Forbes Billionaires List in 2012, [4] around 75% of Musk's wealth was derived from Tesla stock in November 2020. [5] Describing himself as "cash poor", [6] [7] a year later, he became the first person in the world to have a net worth above $300 billion. By December 2024, he became the first person to reach a net ...
Source of wealth 54 Sir James Dyson: 27.3 billion Consumer 61: Sir Jim Ratcliffe: 25 billion: Industrial 91: Hinduja family: 15 billion: Diversified 171 Duke of Westminster: 13.2 billion Real Estate 242 Michael Platt: 9.91 billion Finance 247 Denise Coates: 9.75 billion Gambling 288 Lord Bamford & family: 8.73 billion Industrial 330 Sir Richard ...
The family's accumulated wealth has been divided among many descendants, only one of which (Benjamin de Rothschild) was officially recognized as a billionaire. Determining the family's exact wealth has been deemed implausible; [59] conspiracy theories claiming the family is worth trillions of dollars have not been proven. [60] [61]
In March 2009, Forbes reported Bloomberg's wealth at $16 billion, a gain of $4.5 billion over the previous year, the world's biggest increase in wealth from 2008 to 2009. [63] Bloomberg moved from 142nd to 17th in the Forbes list of the world's billionaires in only two years.
Many in America’s top 10% still feel ‘very poor’ but billionaire Warren Buffett says most folks ‘live better than John D Rockefeller' — 3 tips to create real wealth with the income you have
Elon Musk's net worth rose to almost $289 billion on Monday, making him the richest person on Earth by a $96 billion margin over Jeff Bezos.