FX.co ★ World’s top 5 richest people

Jeff Bezos

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is the number one richest person in the world. His fortune is worth $182.6 billion. Bezos’ company, Amazon, is the largest e-commerce retailer.

Bernard Arnault

The second in the BBI ranking is Bernard Arnault, a French producer of luxury goods. His fortune is worth $140.6 billion. Earlier, Elon Musk claimed this position. Many reputable periodicals wanted to award Musk the second place on the list of the top 5 wealthiest people. However, the revenue of Tesla’s founder turned out to be lower than that of Bernard Arnault.

Elon Musk

Elon Musk takes the honourable third place among the world’s most prosperous people. Musk heads Tesla and SpaceX. According to Forbes, Musk’s fortune skyrocketed four times to $127.9 billion from the previous $24.6 billion thanks to exponential growth in Tesla shares. In fact, Musk managed to overtake another well-known entrepreneur, Bill Gates, whose fortune had been on a high level for a long time.

Bill Gates

Bill Gates is the fourth in the BBI rating. Gates is the head of the world-famous Microsoft corporation. Experts’ assessment of Gates’ fortune varies slightly. According to Forbes, Microsoft CEO’s capital does not exceed $119.4 billion. Nevertheless, in the BBI ranking, Gates has a net worth of $127.7 billion, which is much higher compared to Forbes’ estimate.

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, closes the list of the world’s top five richest people. Bloomberg points out that Zuckerberg’s net worth in 2020 amounts to $100 billion, making him the fifth wealthiest person on the planet. The capital of Facebook CEO has grown rapidly amid the launch of Instagram Reels, which is quite similar to the Chinese TikTok.