Forbes Billionaires 2023: The Richest People In The World
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Forbes Billionaires 2023: The Richest People In The World
Forbes Billionaires 2023: The Richest People In The World
It was a down year for many of the planet’s 2,640 billionaires–including those at the very top of the top. The 25 richest people in the world are worth a collective $2.1 trillion, according to Forbes’ World’s Billionaires list, released Tuesday–down a combined $200 billion from $2.3 trillion in 2022.
Two-thirds of the top 25 are poorer than they were last year, compared to around half of the list overall. No one lost more than Jeff Bezos as Amazon shares crashed by 38%. The drop lopped $57 billion from Bezos’ fortune and knocked him from No. 2 in the world in 2022 to No. 3 this year. This year’s second-biggest loser, Elon Musk, had it worse. He lost his title of world’s richest person after his pricey purchase of Twitter, which he funded in part by the sale of Tesla shares, helping to spook investors. Musk, who is worth $39 billion less than a year ago, is now No. 2.
Two people lost their spot among the top 25. Zhang Yiming, who founded Tik Tok-parent Bytedance, dropped one place, from No. 25 to No. 26, as his embattled company has taken a haircut from investors. Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, known as CZ, fell from No. 19 last year all the way to No. 167 amid the crypto winter.
Still, it’s not all bad news among this elite set. Bernard Arnault, head of luxury goods giant LVMH, is up $53 billion–more than any billionaire, and enough to vault him into No. 1 spot for the first time. Eight other members of the top 25 got richer since the 2022 ranking, including Spanish retailer Amancio Ortega (+$17.7 billion), Bloomberg LP cofounder and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg (+$12.5 billion) and Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim Helú (+$11.8 billion).
The Richest People In The World
1. Bernard Arnault & family – $211 B
2. Elon Musk – $180 B
3. Jeff Bezos – $114 B
4. Larry Ellison – $107 B
5. Warren Buffett – $106 B
6. Bill Gates – $104 B
7. Michael Bloomberg -$94.5 B
8. Carlos Slim Helu & family -$93 B
9. Mukesh Ambani -$83.4 B
10. Steve Ballmer – $80.7 B
11. Francoise Bettencourt Meyers & family -$80.5 B
12. Larry Page -$79.2 B
13. Amancio Ortega -$77.3 B
14. Sergey Brin – $76 B
15. Zhong Shanshan – $68 B
16. Mark Zuckerberg – $64.4 B
17. Charles Koch -$59 B
17. Julia Koch & family – $59 B
19. Jim Walton – $58.8 B
20. Rob Walton – $57.6 B
21. Alice Walton – $56.7 B
22. David Thomson & family – $54.4 B
23. Michael Dell – $50.1 B
24. Gautam Adani – $47.2 B
25. Phil Knight & family – $45.1 B
26
Zhang Yiming
$45 B
27
Dieter Schwarz
$42.9 B
28
François Pinault & family
$40.1 B
29
Klaus-Michael Kuehne
$39.1 B
30
Giovanni Ferrero
$38.9 B
31
Jacqueline Mars
$38.3 B
31
John Mars
$38.3 B
33
Li Ka-shing
$38 B
34
Ma Huateng
$35.3 B
35
Miriam Adelson & family
$35 B
35
Ken Griffin
$35 B
37
Mark Mateschitz
$34.7 B
38
Robin Zeng
$33.4 B
39
Tadashi Yanai & family
$32.6 B
40
Len Blavatnik
$32.1 B
41
Alain Wertheimer
$31.6 B
41
Gerard Wertheimer
$31.6 B
43
Gianluigi Aponte
$31.2 B
43
Rafaela Aponte-Diamant
$31.2 B
45
Colin Zheng Huang
$30.2 B
46
Reinhold Wuerth & family
$29.7 B
47
Lee Shau Kee
$29.5 B
48
Jeff Yass
$28.5 B
49
Jim Simons
$28.1 B
50
Stephen Schwarzman
$27.8 B
51
Susanne Klatten
$27.4 B
52
Gina Rinehart
$27 B
53
William Lei Ding
$26.7 B
54
Germán Larrea Mota Velasco & family
$26.6 B
55
Shiv Nadar
$25.6 B
56
Low Tuck Kwong
$25.5 B
57
Thomas Peterffy
$25.3 B
58
Andrey Melnichenko & family
$25.2 B
59
Stefan Quandt
$24.6 B
60
MacKenzie Scott
$24.4 B
61
R. Budi Hartono
$24.2 B
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Banking, tobacco
62
Vladimir Potanin
$23.7 B
63
Jack Ma
$23.5 B
64
He Xiangjian & family
$23.4 B
65
Iris Fontbona & family
$23.1 B
65
Michael Hartono
$23.1 B
67
James Ratcliffe
$22.9 B
68
Cyrus Poonawalla
$22.6 B
69
Masayoshi Son
$22.4 B
70
Vladimir Lisin
$22.1 B
71
Emmanuel Besnier
$22 B
72
Abigail Johnson
$21.6 B
72
Leonid Mikhelson & family
$21.6 B
74
Lukas Walton
$21.2 B
74
Wang Wei
$21.2 B
76
Jensen Huang
$21.1 B
77
Leonard Lauder
$21 B
77
Takemitsu Takizaki
$21 B
79
Alexey Mordashov & family
$20.9 B
80
Vagit Alekperov
$20.5 B
81
Thomas Frist, Jr. & family
$20.2 B
82
Andrew Forrest
$19.6 B
83
Ray Dalio
$19.1 B
84
Li Shufu
$19 B
84
Wang Wenyin
$19 B
86
Eyal Ofer
$18.9 B
86
Qin Yinglin
$18.9 B
88
Wang Chuanfu
$18.7 B
89
Harold Hamm & family
$18.5 B
89
David Tepper
$18.5 B
89
Gennady Timchenko
$18.5 B
92
Daniel Gilbert
$18 B
93
Lakshmi Mittal
$17.7 B
94
Steve Cohen
$17.5 B
94
Carl Icahn
$17.5 B
94
Savitri Jindal & family
$17.5 B
97
Donald Bren
$17.4 B
97
John Menard, Jr.
$17.4 B
99
Rupert Murdoch & family
$17.1 B
100
Vicky Safra & family
$16.7 B
101
Theo Albrecht, Jr. & family
$16.5 B
101
Renata Kellnerova & family
$16.5 B
103
Li Xiting
$16.3 B
104
Stefan Persson
$16.2 B
104
Eric Schmidt
$16.2 B
106
Michael Platt
$16 B
107
Pang Kang
$15.9 B
108
Karl Albrecht Jr. & family
$15.8 B
108
Beate Heister
$15.8 B
108
Jorge Paulo Lemann & family
$15.8 B
108
Peter Woo
$15.8 B
112
Dilip Shanghvi
$15.6 B
113
Robert Pera
$15.5 B
114
Radhakishan Damani
$15.3 B
115
Huang Shilin
$15.2 B
116
Dhanin Chearavanont
$14.9 B
116
David Green & family
$14.9 B
118
Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi
$14.8 B
119
Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken & family
$14.7 B
120
Xu Hang
$14.6 B
121
Wei Jianjun & family
$14.5 B
122
Alisher Usmanov
$14.4 B
123
Goh Cheng Liang
$14.3 B
124
Kumar Birla
$14.2 B
124
Aliko Dangote
$14.2 B
126
Kwong Siu-hing
$14.1 B
127
Idan Ofer
$14 B
128
Chen Bang
$13.9 B
128
Lui Che Woo
$13.9 B
130
John Fredriksen
$13.7 B
130
Diane Hendricks
$13.7 B
130
Jan Koum
$13.7 B
133
Jerry Jones
$13.3 B
133
George Kaiser
$13.3 B
133
Joseph Lau
$13.3 B
136
Lu Xiangyang
$13.2 B
137
Harry Triguboff
$13.1 B
138
Uday Kotak
$12.9 B
138
Stanley Kroenke
$12.9 B
140
Mikhail Fridman
$12.6 B
141
Sarath Ratanavadi
$12.3 B
142
Dang Yanbao
$12.2 B
142
Jiang Rensheng & family
$12.2 B
144
Shahid Khan
$12.1 B
145
Laurene Powell Jobs & family
$12 B
146
Robert Kuok
$11.8 B
147
Stephen Ross
$11.6 B
148
Pavel Durov
$11.5 B
148
Andreas Struengmann & family
$11.5 B
148
Thomas Struengmann & family
$11.5 B
151
Liu Hanyuan
$11.4 B
151
Michael Rubin
$11.4 B
153
Israel Englander
$11.3 B
153
Viatcheslav Kantor
$11.3 B
153
Anthony Pratt
$11.3 B
153
Mikhail Prokhorov
$11.3 B
157
Giorgio Armani
$11.1 B
157
Johann Rupert & family
$11.1 B
159
Gong Hongjia & family
$11 B
159
Zhang Zhidong
$11 B
161
Philip Anschutz
$10.9 B
161
Judy Love & family
$10.9 B
161
Ricardo Salinas Pliego & family
$10.9 B
164
Donald Newhouse
$10.7 B
165
Robert Kraft
$10.6 B
165
Marcel Herrmann Telles
$10.6 B
167
Suleiman Kerimov & family
$10.5 B
167
Chris Xu
$10.5 B
167
Changpeng Zhao
$10.5 B
170. Andrew Beal -$10.3 B
171. Mike Cannon-Brookes -$10.2 B
171. Carl Cook -$10.2 B
171. David Duffield -$10.2 B
171. Jeffery Hildebrand -$10.2 B
171. Viktor Rashnikov -$10.2 B
171. Eduardo Saverin -$10.2 B
171. Georg Schaeffler -$10.2 B
171. Christy Walton -$10.2 B
179. Scott Farquhar -$10.1 B
179. Quek Leng Chan -$10.1 B
179. Wu Yajun -$10.1 B
182. Autry Stephens – $10 B
183. Liu Yongxing -$9.9 B
184. Vinod Adani – $9.8 B
184. Nicolas Puech -$9.8 B
184. Jacques Saadé, Jr. -$9.8 B
184. Rodolphe Saadé -$9.8 B
184. Tanya Saadé Zeenny -$9.8 B
184. Melker Schorling & family -$9.8 B
190. Andrei Guriev & family -$9.7 B
190. Michael Kim -$9.7 B
190. Lei Jun -$9.7 B
190. Friedhelm Loh – $9.7 B
190. Sun Piaoyang -$9.7 B
195. Rick Cohen & family – $9.6 B
195. Jin Baofang -$9.6 B
195. Luo Liguo & family – $9.6 B
195. Marijke Mars – $9.6 B
195. Pamela Mars – $9.6 B
195. Valerie Mars – $9.6 B
