Rome, 6 April 2022 – Elon Musk beats Jeff Bezos and become the richest man in the world. The founder of Amazon drops to second place after four years at the top of the magazine’s annual rankings Forbes. The net worth of the patron of Tesla It now stands at $ 219 billion, 68 billion more than last year. The data is as of March 11, so it does not yet consider buying 9% of Twitter’s shares.
Bezos, in second place, is worth “only” 171 billion. Following the French family Arnault with 158 billion, Bill Gates with 129 billion and, in fifth place, ‘the oracle of Omaha’ Warren Buffett with 118 billion.
The war, the pandemic and the weakness of the financial markets have also affected the scroungers, who are 2,668, 87 fewer this year. The two countries that have suffered the most important drops are the Russia and the China: according to Forbes estimates, the Russian tycoons would have lost over 260 billion dollars, while the Chinese ones are worth 500 billion dollars less than in 2021.
Of the richest 2,668 in the world, only 327 are women, most of whom share the wealth with their spouse. The first lady is in 14th place and is Francoise Bettencourt Meyers by L’Oréal. Among the new billionaires we find Rihanna and also Melinda French Gatesstill fresh from divorce from the founder of Microsoft.
The top two countries with the most billionaires remain the United States and the China (with respectively 735 and 607 entries in the ranking). India (166), Germany (134) and Russia (83) follow with a notable gap.
As for the Italiansin 2022 there are 52 in the ranking of the famous magazine: the first is always Giovanni Ferrero, king of Nutella, with a net worth of $ 36.2 billion. In second place Leonardo del Vecchio of Luxottica (27.3 billion), followed at a distance by Giorgio Armani (7.8 billion) e Silvio Berlusconi (7.1 billion).
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