Top 10 Richest Person in the World 2020
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In the last 10 years, the rich have gotten a whole lot richer.
Here's a look at the net worth of the 10 richest people in the world, as ranked Tuesday, Dec. 24, according to Forbes' Real Time Billionaires List, compared to the same billionaires' net worth on Aug. 25, 2010, the date Forbes locked in 2010's ranking of the wealthiest billionaires.
1. Jeff Bezos (CEO of Amazon)
- 2010 net worth: $12.3 billion
- 2020 net worth: $111.5 billion
- How much richer: $99.2 billion
2. Bernard Arnault (and family)
Chairman and chief executive of French company LVMH, the world's largest luxury goods conglomerate
- 2010 net worth: $27.5 billion
- 2019 net worth: $109.9 billion
- How much richer: $82.4 billion
3. Bill Gates
Co-founder of Microsoft
- 2010 net worth: $53 billion
- 2019 net worth: $108.2 billion
- How much richer: $55.2 billion
4. Warren Buffett
Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
- 2010 net worth: $47 billion
- 2019 net worth: $88.8 billion
- How much richer: $41.8 billion
5. Amancio Ortega
Co-founder of Spanish fashion company Inditex, which owns Zara
- 2010 net worth: $25 billion
- 2019 net worth: $77.1 billion
- How much richer: $52.1 billion
6. Mark Zuckerberg
CEO of Facebook
- 2010 net worth: $4 billion
- 2019 net worth: $76.3 billion
- How much richer: $72.3 billion
7. Larry Ellison
Co-founder of Oracle
- 2010 net worth: $28 billion
- 2019 net worth: $66.4 billion
- How much richer: $38.4 billion
8. Carlos Slim Helu (and family)
Telecom mogul, including on the board of directors of America Movil, Latin America's biggest mobile telecommunications company
- 2010 net worth: $53.5 billion
- 2019 net worth: $63.5 billion
- How much richer: $10 billion
9. Larry Page
Co-founder of Google
- 2010 net worth: $17.5 billion
- 2019 net worth: $61.1 billion
- How much richer: $43.6 billion
10. Mukesh Ambani
Chair of Indian oil and gas company Reliance Industries
- 2010 net worth: $29 billion
- 2019 net worth: $59.7 billion
- How much richer: $30.7 billion
In 2010, the 10 richest people in the world had total wealth of $296.8 billion as compared to $822.5 billion now.
For context, in 2010, global wealth totaled $200 trillion as compared to $360.6 trillion in 2019, according to an October report on global wealth from financial services company Credit Suisse.
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Today, wealth inequality between the world's richest and poorest continues to grow. According to an Oxfam report published in January, the world's wealthiest 26 individuals had the same amount of wealth as the poorest half of the population in 2018, the latest figures available. During the same period, the wealth of the world's billionaires increased by $900 billion ($2.5 billion per day), while the wealth of the poorest half of the population (3.8 billion people) fell by 11%, the Oxfam report found.
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