Forbes, one of the publications published every year in the first days of April that the whole world eagerly awaits, today released the 36th of the World Billionaires List. Finally, the list of the data received from the markets on March 11, 2022, The number of billionaires and the richest names in the world revealed.

Up-to-date on Forbes’ 36th Annual List of Billionaires 2,668 billionaires consists. In 2021 this number was 2,755. Looking at the current data, the total wealth of billionaire names $12.7 trillion In 2021, the total number was $13.1 trillion. In other words, the last year we left behind was not very encouraging for some billionaires.

329 billionaires left the list, 236 new billionaires came:

Bumble’s Whitney Wolfe Herd and Peloton’s John Foley were among those to lose this title this year, when a total of 329 billionaires lost their “billionaire” title. On the other hand, 236 new billionaires joined instead of some names that lost their place on the billionaire list. Among the new billionaires Rihanna, Peter Jackson and Josh Kushner also took place.

The data also showed that Barbados, Bulgaria, Estonia and Uruguay had their first billionaires. However, despite a tumultuous 12 months, the report 1,050 billionaires are richer than a year ago showed. Of course, Elon Musk was the name that most increased his wealth.

Elon Musk From March 11, 2022 He had a net worth of $219 billion. While Musk’s wealth has increased, especially with the 9.2% purchase of Twitter in recent days and Twitter shares have increased, the data couldn’t stay up to date as it was until March 11. The name that is second on the list after Elon Musk Jeff Bezos it happened. In third place Bernard Arnault took place. top 5, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett rounded off with.

Other highlights from the Forbes report were as follows:

• 86 billionaires are under the age of 40.
• The youngest billionaire in the world is 19-year-old Kevin David Lehmann.
• The country with the most billionaires was the US with 735 billionaires. China and Russia followed the US.
• With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 34 Russian billionaires lost their billionaire title.
• There were only 327 female billionaires worldwide.
• 71% of billionaires became billionaires through their own efforts (by founding/sharing a company).
• 30 billionaires died.