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As of April 2023, India has 167 billionaires, which put the country third in the world, after the United States and China. [1] Mukesh Ambani, the chairman and largest shareholder of Reliance Industries, has been the richest Indian for 14 consecutive years. [2] He is currently world's 10th richest person in the world according to Forbes. [3]
In the 32nd annual Forbes list of the world's billionaires, the aggregate wealth of the top 20 richest people on Earth amounted to about 13 percent of all billionaires' fortunes combined. [16] A record of 2,208 billionaires were in the ranking and the total wealth was $9.1 trillion, up 18% since 2017.
Ratan Tata was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), during the British Raj, into a Parsi Zoroastrian family, on 28 December 1937. [11] He was the son of Naval Tata (who was born in Surat and later adopted into the Tata family), and Soonoo Tata (the niece of Tata group founder Jamsetji Tata).
The world’s wealthiest people have several things in common, but one of the most prominent is that the 10 richest have more than $100 billion to their name. The very top have more than $200 billion.
Here’s an even closer look at how the world’s 10 richest people on Forbes’ Billionaires Index list got to where they are. 1. Elon Musk. Elon Musk has a net worth of $214.1 billion.
According to Entrepreneur, immigrant and industrialist Andrew Carnegie sold his Carnegie Steel company to J.P. Morgan for $480 million in 1901, making him the richest person in the world in the ...
It tracks the 500 wealthiest people in the world. [4] The ranking was designed to provide a more transparent and accountable presentation of the world's biggest personal fortunes. [ 7 ] At first, the index only tracked the 20 richest people in the world, and then expanded to 100, 200, 400 and later 500 in October 2016.
Each year, Forbes India issues a list of India's richest people, called the "India Rich List". [1] [2] Since 2008, Mukesh Ambani has been the richest Indian, with his wealth based in Reliance Industries. [3] [4] except for 2022 where Gautam Adani displaced him.