On April 5, local time, the official website of Forbes magazine in the United States announced the 2022 billionaire list, and Elon Musk, founder of the American Space Exploration Technology Company and CEO of Tesla, surpassed Bezos to the top of the Forbes global rich list for the first time with a net worth of $219 billion.
The list uses the share price and exchange rate as of March 11, 2022 to calculate net assets. Followed by Musk is Amazon founder Jeff Bezos with a net worth of $171 billion, the first time in 4 years that Bezos has lost his position as the world's richest man. Bill Gates and Buffett are in fifth and sixth place, respectively.
Forbes claims that it was a downturn for billionaires. As a result of COVID-19, the war and the plunging stock market, many of the wealthiest people have seen their wealth shrink this year. The list shows that there were 2,668 billionaires worldwide in 2022, down from a record 2,755 last year. The total wealth of this year's list reached $12.7 trillion, down from $13.1 trillion last year.
From a national point of view, the United States is still the country with the most billionaires in the world, with a total of 735 people, China ranks second with 607 people, and India has 166 people, ranking third. Among them, Zhong Shuishui, chairman of Nongfu Spring, ranked 17th in the world with a net asset of 65.7 billion US dollars; Zhang Yiming, the founder of 38-year-old ByteDance, ranked 25th with a wealth of 50 billion US dollars. Ma Ranks 67 with a net worth of $22.8 billion. It is worth noting that Jiang Rensheng, the founder of The Chinese vaccine company Zhifei Bio, and his family rank 91st in the world with a net worth of US$17.7 billion.
(Reporter Li Xiaoxiao)
Source: The Paper