20 richest people in the world - 2022. Forbes ranking (21 photos)
Forbes USA has published the next, 36th, global ranking of dollar billionaires. Elon Musk took first place for the first time, moving up from second place. Two years ago, the head of SpaceX and Tesla was only in 31st place 
The founder of SpaceX and Tesla, Elon Musk, for the first time topped the ranking of the richest people on the planet according to Forbes, displacing the founder and CEO of the online retailer Amazon, Jeff Bezos. Over the year, Musk’s fortune increased by $68 billion, to $219 billion, while Bezos’s fortune decreased by $6 billion, to $171 billion. Two years ago, Elon Musk occupied only 31st place in the ranking. In third position: as last year, are the owner of the LVMH fashion house Bernard Arnault and his family, whose fortune Forbes estimates at $158 billion.
The next, 36th, global ranking of dollar billionaires was published by American Forbes on April 5. There are 2,668 billionaires, 87 more than in 2021. The final measurement of billionaires' fortunes was made on March 11.
The combined wealth of all billionaires this year reached $12.7 trillion, which is $0.4 trillion less than last year. The list has the most participants from the United States - 735 people, followed by China (including Hong Kong and Macau) - 607 people.
Elon Musk 
Net worth: $219 billion
Source: Tesla, SpaceX
Age: 50
Citizenship: USA
Last year, Tesla's CEO sold more than $16 billion worth of shares in the electric car maker in two months, possibly triggering the largest annual tax bill on an individual in history. However, for Musk this is unlikely to matter much - over the past year his fortune has grown by $68 billion.
Jeff Bezos 
Net worth: $171 billion
Source: Amazon
Age: 58
Citizenship: USA
For the first time in four years, Jeff Bezos is no longer the richest man in the world. He is worth $6 billion less than a year ago as Amazon shares fell 3%. Since stepping down as CEO in July, he has moved on to other projects: Bezos' commercial space company, Blue Origin, for example, sent him into space last summer. He also bought a superyacht and began to become more involved in philanthropy, donating more than $1 billion to organizations such as the Barack Obama Foundation and environmental groups.
Bernard Arnault and family 
Net worth: $158 billion
Source: LVMH
Age: 73
Nationality: France
Having increased his fortune by $8 billion thanks to the success of brands Louis Vuitton and Dior, which was not hindered even by the coronavirus pandemic, the longtime leader of the LVMH empire is looking to expand his holdings. The French conglomerate has asked shareholders to approve raising the maximum CEO age from 75 to 80. He will likely use the extra time to decide which of his five children will succeed him.
Bill Gates 
Net worth: $129 billion
Source: Microsoft
Age: 66
Citizenship: USA
The divorced Microsoft co-founder is an active book writer. Last year he published a book on how to combat climate change, and in May he will publish tips on preventing a new pandemic. In March, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation joined a coalition that is developing drug candidates to combat future global epidemics.
Warren Buffett 
Net worth: $118 billion
Source: Berkshire Hathaway
Age: 91
Citizenship: USA
Berkshire Hathaway shares set new records after a string of deals. Last fall, Buffett made a timely bet on Activision Blizzard, investing $1.1 billion in shares of the video game developer three months before Microsoft agreed to buy the company for $69 billion. This year, amid rising oil prices, he grabbed $7 shares of Occidental Petroleum billion. In March, Buffett made his biggest acquisition in years when Berkshire agreed to buy the Alleghany insurance company for $11.6 billion.
Larry Page 
Net worth: $111 billion
Source: Alphabet
Age: 49
Citizenship: USA
Last year, Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who jointly own a majority stake and sit on the board of directors of parent company Alphabet, began selling shares for the first time since 2017. Forbes estimates that each has raised more than $1 billion since May 2021.
Sergey Brin 
Net worth: $107 billion
Source: Alphabet
Age: 48
Citizenship: USA
Last year, Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who jointly own a majority stake and sit on the board of directors of parent company Alphabet, began selling shares for the first time since 2017. Forbes estimates that each has raised more than $1 billion since May 2021.
Larry Ellison 
Net worth: $106 billion
Source: Oracle
Age: 77
Citizenship: USA
Oracle's chairman and former CEO became more than $10 billion richer this year after shareholders approved the company's move to the cloud. In September, Ellison bought a resort on Lake Tahoe for $345 million. His huge real estate portfolio includes the Hawaiian island of Lanai, which he bought for $300 million in 2012, and at least 10 properties on luxury Carbon Beach in Malibu.
Steve Ballmer 
Net worth: $91.4 billion
Source: Microsoft
Age: 66
Citizenship: USA
Forbes now values the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers, which the former Microsoft CEO bought for a whopping $2 billion eight years ago, at $3.3 billion. Not a bad return, but Ballmer's wealth has largely come from Microsoft shares, which have risen over the same period. by more than 600% and increased his wealth by more than $65 billion.
Mukesh Ambani 
Net worth: $90.7 billion
Source: various assets
Age: 64
Nationality: India
Last year, the oil and gas tycoon (his company Reliance owns the world's largest oil refining complex in the Indian state of Gujarat) switched to renewable energy. Reliance says it will invest $80 billion in environmental projects over the next 10 to 15 years, including $10 billion to build four large renewable energy facilities near its refinery complex. In January, the company announced it would pay $98 million for a majority stake in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Manhattan.
Gautam Adani and family 
Net worth: $90 billion
Source: infrastructure, raw materials
Age: 59
Nationality: India
Adani's wealth has increased by nearly $40 billion since last year (and tenfold since 2020) as shares of his listed companies have jumped on rising profits. The most notable example is Adani Green Energy. Adani plans to invest up to $70 billion to become the largest supplier of renewable energy by 2030. The billionaire dropped out of university and refused to work in his father's fabric store, and in 1988 he founded a company exporting raw materials. Now he also has projects related to ports and airports.
Michael Bloomberg 
Net worth: $82 billion
Source: BloombergLP
Age: 80
Citizenship: USA
In November, the man whose terminals are used throughout Wall Street pledged to donate $120 million to fight drug overdose deaths, and in December pledged $750 million to fund independent schools. Additionally, the former New York City mayor spent $1.2 billion to support the Democratic Party during the 2020 campaign (including more than $1 billion on his own aborted bid for the White House). He's more likely to be short in 2022, and in a recent column he warned Democrats that "if the course is not corrected immediately, the party will be crushed in November."
Carlos Slim Helu 
Net worth: $81.2 billion
Source: telecommunications
Age: 82
Nationality: Mexico
The telecom mogul is $18.4 billion richer since last year as shares of his company América Movíl rose 44%. At the end of 2020, Slim sold his stake in the New York Times when shares were hovering above $40. In 2015, he exercised warrants to buy those shares at a price of about $6.
Françoise Bettencourt-Myers and family 
Net worth: $74.8 billion
Source: L'Oréal
Age: 68
Nationality: France
The world's richest woman is vice chairman of the L'Oréal cosmetics empire, which her chemist grandfather founded in 1909. Her newest, 36th brand is Youth to the People, a Los Angeles-based vegan skincare company that was acquired in December.
Mark Zuckerberg 
Net worth: $67.3 billion
Source: Meta
Age: 37
Citizenship: USA
In October, Facebook rebranded itself as Meta Platforms as Zuckerberg set out to create a techtopia with dim (and perhaps unfavorable) prospects called the “metaverse.” He has every reason to hide from the real world, where Meta shares have fallen by 50% since their peak in September. For the first time in six years, he is no longer among the ten richest people in the world.
Jim Walton 
Net worth: $66.2 billion
Source: Walmart
Age: 73
Citizenship: USA
The son of Walmart founder Sam Walton is chairman of the family's $27 billion-asset Arvest Bank.
Zhong Shanshan 
Net worth: $65.7 billion
Source: drinks, pharmaceuticals
Age: 67
Nationality: China
Zhong, who did not even graduate from primary school, has become China's richest man for the second year in a row. In 1996, he founded the Nongfu Spring bottled water company. Its shares have fallen more than 15% over the past year. The decline was partly offset by gains in shares of COVID-19 test maker Beijing Wantai Biological Pharmacy, in which it owns a 75% stake.
Alice Walton 
Net worth: $65.3 billion
Source: Walmart
Age: 72
Citizenship: USA
Sam Walton's only daughter founded the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. In November, her nephew's wife, Olivia Walton, succeeded her as museum chairman. Alice remains on the board.
Rob Walton 
Net worth: $65 billion
Source: Walmart
Age: 77
Citizenship: USA
Rob remained chairman of Walmart for 23 years, until 2015. Since last year, Walton and his siblings have sold more than $7 billion worth of shares in the retail chain but remain the largest shareholders.
Changpeng Zhao 
Net worth: $65 billion
Source: cryptocurrencies
Age: 45
Citizenship: Canada
Zhao became the richest person in the cryptocurrency space thanks to a stake of about 70% in the Binance cryptocurrency exchange. In his role as CEO, C-Z, as he is known, has built Binance into the largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume since its founding in 2017. In January, Zhao announced that Binance planned to spend $200 million to buy a minority stake in Forbes through a SPAC deal.
