Techmilliarche Elon Musk is the richest person in the world – and has almost doubled his fortune since last year. In general, the number of super rich has risen steeply in the last 20 years. That is the result of the current estimate of the “Forbes”.
Elon Musk leads the well -known “Forbes” list of the richest people. According to the estimates, he has $ 342 billion (EUR 316.6 billion). That is more than $ 147 billion than in the spring of 2024. And that, although the share price of his e-car manufacturer Tesla has fallen sharply in the previous year, it is still up to plus.
Mark Mateschitz in 37th place
Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg (40) is in second place on the well-known list of $ 216 billion, just before Amazon boss Jeff Bezos (61), whose assets are estimated at $ 215 billion. According to Forbes, the Austrian Mark ranked Mateschitz, co -owner of Red Bull, $ 40.4 billion.
More billionaires than ever before
This year, more than $ 3,000 billionaires were counted for the first time with a common assets of $ 16.1 trillion. In 2005 there were 587 billionaires worldwide. The United States and China lead the ranking of the countries with the most billionaires – there are 902 in the United States and 450 super rich in China.
Incidentally, the youngest billionaire comes on the Forbes list from Germany. It is the only 19-year-old Johannes von Baumbach, who, according to Forbes, owns shares with a value of $ 5.4 billion in the family business Pharmaceutic company Boehringer Ingelheim.
Source: Krone
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