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Forbes' Real-Time Billionaires rankings tracks the daily ups and downs of the world’s richest people. The wealth-tracking platform provides ongoing updates on the net worth and ranking of...
- Forbes Billionaires 2024
Forbes presents the 2024 World's Billionaires List. View the...
- Forbes World’s Billionaires List 2024: The Top 200
There are now more billionaires than ever: 2,781 in all, 141...
- Forbes World’s Billionaires List 2022: The Top 200
America still leads the world, with 735 billionaires worth a...
- Forbes Billionaires 2024
- Genghis Khan
- Bill Gates
- Alan Rufus
- John D. Rockefeller
- Andrew Carnegie
- Joseph Stalin
- Akbar I
- Emperor Shenzong
- Augustus Caesar
- Mansa Musa
Lived:1162-1227 Country:Mongolian Empire Wealth:Lots of land, not much else Genghis Khan is undoubtedly one of the most successful military leaders of all time. As leader of the Mongol Empire, which at its height stretched from China to Europe, he controlled the largest contiguous empire in history. However, despite his great power, scholars say Ge...
Lived:1955-present Country:United States Wealth:$78.9 billion As the richest living person, Bill Gates’ wealth is refreshingly easy to determine. As of this year, Forbesestimates the Microsoft founder’s net worth at $78.9 billion. That’s about $8 billion more than Zara co-founderAmancio Ortega, the second-richest person in the world.
Lived:1040–1093 Country:England Wealth:$194 billion The nephew of William the Conqueror, Rufus joined his uncle in the Norman conquest. He died with £11,000, according to Philip Beresford and Bill Rubinstein, authors of The Richest of the Rich, which they sayamounted to 7% of England’s GDP at the time. That would amount to $194 billion in 2014 doll...
Lived:1839–1937 Country:United States Wealth:$341 billion Rockefeller began investing in the petroleum industry in 1863 and by 1880 his Standard Oil company controlled90% of American oil production. According to hisNew York Times obituary, Rockefeller was valued at about $1.5 billion based on a 1918 federal income tax return and estimates of his ov...
Lived:1835–1919 Country:United States Wealth:$372 billion Rockefeller gets all the press, but Andrew Carnegie may be the richest American of all time. The Scottish immigrant sold his company, U.S. Steel, to J.P. Morgan for $480 million in 1901. That sum equates to about slightly over 2.1% of U.S. GDP at the time, giving Carnegie economic power equi...
Lived:1878–1953 Country:USSR Wealth:Complete control of a nation with 9.6% of global GDP Stalin is an uncommon figure in modern economic history: a dictator with absolute power who also controlled one of the largest economies in the world. While it is virtually impossible to separate Stalin’s wealth from the wealth of the Soviet Union, his unique c...
Lived:1542–1605 Country:India Wealth:Ruled empire with 25% of global GDP The greatest emperor of India’s Mughal dynasty, Akbar controlled an empire that accounted for aboutone-fourth of global economic output. Fortune’s Chris Matthews cites the late economic historian Angus Maddison, who speculates India’s GDP per capita under Akbar was comparable ...
Lived:1048–1085 Country:China Wealth:Ruled empire with 25% to 30% of global GDP China’s Song Dynasty (960 – 1279) was one of the most economically powerful empires of all time. According to Prof. Ronald A. Edwards, a Chinese economic historian of the Song Dynasty at Tamkang University, the nation accounted forbetween 25% and 30%of the world’s econo...
Lived:63 BC–14 AD Country:Rome Wealth:$4.6 trillion Not only was Augustus Caesar in charge of an empire that accounted for25% to 30% of the world’s economic output, but according to Stanford history professor Ian Morris, Augustus at one point held personal wealth equivalent to one-fifth of his empire’s economy. That fortune would be the equivalent ...
Year:1280–1337 Country:Mali Wealth:Richer than anyone could describe Mansa Musa, the king of Timbuktu, is oftenreferred to as the wealthiest person in history. According to Ferrum College history professor Richard Smith, Musa’s west African kingdom was likely the largest producer of gold in the world—at a time which gold was in especially high dema...
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- Elon Musk. Age: 52. Residence: United States. Co-founder and CEO: Tesla. Net Worth: $215 billion. Tesla Ownership Stake: 13% ($83 billion) X Ownership Stake: 79% ($8.37 billion)
- Jeff Bezos. Age: 60. Residence: United States. Founder and Executive Chair: Amazon (AMZN) Net Worth: $199 billion. Amazon Ownership Stake: 10% ($166 billion)
- Bernard Arnault. Age: 74. Residence: France. CEO and Chair: LVMH (LVMUY) Net Worth: $198 billion. Christian Dior Ownership Stake: 97.5% ($152 billion total) Other Assets: Moelis & Company equity ($30.9 billion public asset) and $15.2 billion in cash.
- Mark Zuckerberg. Age: 39. Residence: United States. CEO and Chair: Meta Platforms (META) Net Worth: $171 billion. Meta Platforms Ownership Stake: 13% ($136 billion total)
In the 32nd annual Forbes list of the world's billionaires, the aggregate wealth of the top 20 richest people on Earth amounted to about 13 percent of all billionaires' fortunes combined. A record of 2,208 billionaires were in the ranking and the total wealth was $9.1 trillion, up 18% since 2017.
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Jan 5, 2024 · Samantha Silberstein. Fact checked by. Suzanne Kvilhaug. Some people are unfathomably rich. According to Forbes, as of March 2023, Elon Musk is the wealthiest man alive, with $180 billion to his...
