List of 20 Richest People in the world 2022

List of 20 Richest People in the world 2022

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, is the world’s richest person, with a total wealth of $239.3 billion until February 9, 2022. Following him are the Arnault dynasty and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

20 richest persons in the world in 2022: 

According to the Forbes Genuine Billionaires Index, Elon Reeve Musk is the world’s richest person, with a total wealth of $239.3 billion as of February 9, 2022. Bernard Arnault, his family, and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos follow him.

According to Forbes, there will be over 2700 billionaires in the globe in 2021, 660 more than the previous year, with a historic 493 new billionaires. The population of billionaires dipped drastically in 2020 due to the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic, but it regained and increased in 2021.

The rating mentioned above is based on factual data and may vary owing to changes in the values of the listed individuals’ shares. According to Forbes, the United States has the most billionaire in the world (724 as of 2021), followed by China (698 billionaires) and India (237 billionaires). There are supposedly around 2000 billionaires around the globe that you may or may not be aware of. Most wealthy people in the own world stock in top companies, which raises their net worth when the share price rises and vice versa.

1. Elon R Musk: 

• Age: 50
• Location:  Austin, Texas 
• Tesla and SpaceX are the sources of wealth.
• Tesla and SpaceX share ownership: 25% for Tesla and 44% for SpaceX.
• Other holdings include 9.2% of Twitter, Neuralink, and The Boring Company.

Elon Reeve Musk FRS is a South African-born engineer, industrial designer, and technology entrepreneur. If you’re interested in the future of the planet, you’ve seen Musk around. 

Elon R Musk is an engineer, technological entrepreneur, industrial designer, and philanthropist. Elon Musk is a dual citizen of South Africa (1971-present), Canada (1989-present), and The Us (2002-present). He is the founder, CEO, and Chief Designer of SpaceX; the co-founder, CEO, and product designer of Tesla, Inc.; the creator of The Boring Corporation; the co-founder and inaugural co-chairman of OpenAI.

2. Bernard Arnault & family 

• Age: 73
• Location:  Paris, France 
• LVMH is the source of wealth.
• LVMH 47% ownership stake
• Other assets include a Picasso, Yves Klein, and Henry Moore art collection, as well as the boat Symphony.

LVMH’s CEO is Bernard Arnault (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessey). The corporation was eventually founded by combining the two enterprises. Louis Vuitton is a well-known luxury fashion house, while Moet Hennessey is a champagne and cognac company.

3. Jeff Bezos

• Age: 58
• Location:  Seattle, Washington 
• Amazon is the source of wealth.
• Amazon 10% ownership stake
• Other holdings include The Washington Post, Blue Origin, Bezos Expeditions, and Altos Labs.

Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon.com Inc, one of the internet’s largest and most popular businesses. Amazon began as a modest online bookshop in Jeff’s bedroom, with poor early sales.

In 1994, he created the e-commerce behemoth Amazon in his Seattle garage. He is the Chairman of this firm, and he owns 11.1% of it. He would have been wealthier if he had not left his wife, MacKenzie, after 25 years of marriage in 2019. He had to give his wife a third of his Amazon share.

4. Bill Gates

• Age: 66
• Hometown: Medina, Washington
• Microsoft is the source of wealth.
• Microsoft 1% ownership stake

Other assets include stakes in Canadian National Railway and AutoNation, as well as over 242,000 acres of farmland in the United States. Bill Gates is the founder of Microsoft and has been the world’s richest man for numerous years. Microsoft was started in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, and it has since grown to become the world’s largest PC software firm.

5. Larry Page

• Age: 49
• Location: Palo Alto, California, USA
• Alphabet, Google Alphabet Ownership Stake: Page controls 51% of voting shares and less than 12% of total shares with co-founder Sergey Brin.

Larry Page co-founded Google, which began in a garage in 1998. Undoubtedly, Google has become the most successful search engine in the world, and the corporation has since made other acquisitions, including YouTube. Google’s success has made Larry Page one of the world’s wealthiest.

6. Warren Buffett

• Age: 91
• Location: Omaha, Nebraska, is my home.
• Berkshire Hathaway is the source of wealth.
• Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 30.71% ownership stake

Warren Buffett is the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and an American entrepreneur and investor. Buffett is the world’s most successful investor, and millions of other traders look up to him as a role model.

7. Sergey Brin

• Age: 48
• Location: Los Altos, California, USA
• Alphabet and Google are the sources of wealth.
• Ownership of the Alphabet Brin controls 51% of voting shares and less than 12% of total shares, together with co-founder Larry Page.
• Other assets include Tesla and 23andMe stock.

Sergey Brin and Larry Page co-founded Google in a modest, inexpensive garage in 1998. The combination has propelled Google to the top, with Sergey Brin behind Page in this list of the world’s wealthiest persons. Sergey Brin’s net worth is estimated to be $93.2 billion as of August 2022.

8. Larry Ellison

• Age: 77
• Location:   Lanai, Hawaii 
• Oracle is a source of wealth.
• Oracle 35% ownership stake
• Other assets include 3 million Tesla shares and $1 billion in real estate.

Larry Ellison is the co-founder of Oracle Corporation and served as its CEO until September 2014. Oracle has grown into an immensely successful technology firm, currently 39 years old, employing over 136,000 people.

9. Steve Ballmer

• Age: 66
• Location:   Hunts Point, Washington, USA
• Microsoft is the source of wealth.
• Microsoft 4% ownership stake (333 million shares)
• Other assets include the Los Angeles Clippers and Redmond.

Steve Ballmer is the current owner of the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association and the former CEO of Microsoft. Steve Ballmer’s net worth is predicted to be $85.7 billion as of August 2022, making him the world’s tenth richest person.

10. Mukesh Ambani 

• Age: 65
• Location:   Mumbai, India 
• Reliance Industries Limited is the source of wealth.
• Limited Reliance Industries The Ambani family owns around 49% of the company.

Mukesh Ambani is a business giant from India who is the chairman, managing director, and major shareholder of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL). Ambani has been the richest man in Asia for some time, and this year he is climbing up the list of the richest people in the world. Mukesh Ambani’s net worth is $92.5 billion as of August 2022.

Mukesh Ambani is the richest person in Asia and the CEO of India’s most valued company, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL). In 2019, Reliance Industry Limited (RIL) was rated first in the India Ranks 500 and 106th in the Fortune Global 500. Mukesh Ambani, 64, derives most of his income from the petrochemicals, oil and gas, and telecommunications industries. He is currently the world’s tenth richest man.

11. Gautam Adani & Family

• Age: 59
• Location:  Ahmedabad, India 
• Adani Group, is the source of wealth.
• The Adani Group owns more than 70% of the shares in several Adani Group entities.
• Other assets include the Mumbai International Airport and Holcim. India

Gautam Adani is a millionaire industrialist and philanthropist from India. Adani is the founder and current chairman of the Adani Group, a global company located in Ahmedabad that is active in port construction and operations in India.

Gautam Adani’s net worth is predicted to be $97.1 billion as of August 2022. Gautam Adani is Asia’s and India’s second richest man. His net wealth is 89.9 billion dollars. Adani’s ascent coincided with a rise in the shares of his declared group enterprises and a dip in RIL shares. He topped the world’s wealthiest woman, Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, and her family.

12. Francoise Bettencourt Meyers and Family

• $70.5 billion in net worth
• Age: 68
• Location:  Paris, France 
• L’Oréal is the source of wealth.
• Ownership of L’Oréal Stake: 33%

When her mother, Liliane Bettencourt, died in 2017, Francoise Bettencourt Meyers became the reigning L’Oreal heiress. She is currently the chairperson of the holding business, with her family owning 33% of L’Oreal. Francoise Bettencourt Meyers’ net worth is expected to be $70.5 billion as of August 2022, making her the world’s richest woman.

13. Carlos Slim Helu and family

• $83.3 billion in net worth
• Age: 82
• Location: Mexico City 
• América Móvil is the source of wealth.
• America Mobile 57% ownership stake.

Other holdings include 17% of The New York Times and a 79% share in Grupo Carso.

Carlos Slim Helu is a Mexican businessman and investor who founded the ‘Grupo Carso.’ The company’s portfolio includes brands from various industries, including health care, media, energy, real estate, and retail.

Carlos ranks 13th on this list of the world’s wealthiest people, with an estimated net worth of $83.3 billion. Slim Helu’s net worth plummeted a few years ago, but it has since been restored.

14. Mark Zuckerberg

• $57.3 billion in net worth
• Age: 38
• Location: Palo Alto, California, USA
• Facebook is a source of wealth.
• Facebook 12% ownership stake

Mark Zuckerberg is well known as the creator of Facebook. Facebook has become the world’s most popular and lucrative social media corporation. And it all started in Mark’s Harvard University dorm room. 

Mark Zuckerberg has restored his considerable net worth loss following the Cambridge Analytica data scandal and other difficulties that caused Facebook stock prices to plummet.  Mark Zuckerberg is now the world’s fourth richest man, with a net worth of $57.3 billion.

15. Zhong Shanshan

• $70 billion in net worth
• Age: 67
• Location: Hangzhou, China
• Nongfu Spring is the source of wealth. Nongfu Spring owns 84% of the company.
• Beijing Wantai Biological Pharmacy is another asset.

Zhong Shanshan is the chairman of Nongfu Spring, a Chinese water-beverage firm. Shanshan has been included in our list due to a recent increase in the company’s stock price. Zhong Shanshan’s net worth is projected to be $70 billion as of August 2022.

16. Michael Bloomberg

• $82 billion in net worth
• Age: 80
• Location: New York, New York 
• Bloomberg LP is the source of wealth.
• Bloomberg LP owns 88% of the company ($10 billion).

Michael Bloomberg is a businessman and politician from the United States. Bloomberg is the founder and Chairman of the financial data and media firm Bloomberg L.P. Bloomberg is currently 74 years old and one of the world’s wealthiest individuals.

Michael Bloomberg increased his net worth by $14 billion earlier this year, propelling him to 11th place on our list. However, he is one of the few people on this list whose net worth did not improve in the second and third quarters of 2021, dropping him to 21st.

17. Amancio Ortega

• $56.7 billion in net worth
• Age: 86
• Location: La Coruna, Spain
• Inditex is the source of wealth.
• Inditex owns 60% of the company.
• Other assets include, among others, real estate in Madrid, London, Chicago, and New York.

Amancio Ortega is the founder of the Inditex fashion business and a Spanish entrepreneur. Inditex owns Zara, one of the world’s most popular apparel retailers.

18. Jim Walton

• $59.4 billion in net worth
• Age: 74
• Location: Bentonville, Arkansas 
• Walmart is the source of wealth.
• Walmart The Walton family holds 50% of the Walmart shares.
• Other holdings include the CEO of Waltons’ Arvest Bank Group, Inc.

Jim Walton is the son of Sam Walton, the founder of ‘Walmart,’ the world’s largest retail business. He is on the board of directors of Walmart and is the CEO of his own firm, Arvest Bank.

19. Alice Walton

• $58.6 billion in net worth
• Age: 72
• Location: Fort Worth, Texas
• Walmart is the source of wealth.
• Walmart Shares: The Walton family holds 50% of Walmart shares.
• Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is another asset.

Alice Walton is Sam Walton’s daughter and the heir to the Walmart fortune. She established the Llama Company in 1988, and it has now dissolved. Alice Walton’s net worth is projected to be $58.6 billion, making her the world’s 16th richest person and the world’s second richest woman.

20. Rob Walton

• $58.3 billion in net worth
• Age: 77
• Bentonville, Arkansas is the place of residence.
• Walmart is the source of wealth.
• Walmart Shares: The Walton family holds 50% of Walmart shares.
• Other assets include the Denver Broncos.

Rob Walton is Sam Walton’s eldest son, and he served as Walmart’s chairman after his father’s death until 2015.

The Top Ten Countries with the Most Billionaires

1. The United States has 724 billionaires.
2. China has 698 billionaires.
3. India has 237 billionaires.
4. Germany has 136 billionaires.
5. Russia has 117 billionaires.
6. Hong Kong has 71 billionaires.
7. Brazil has 65 billionaires.
8. Canada has 64 billionaires.
9. The United Kingdom has 56 billionaires.
10. Italy has 51 billionaires.

It should be mentioned that the United States and China are home to a large of the world’s billionaires.