For the first time, Jeff Bezos was listed as the top billionaire due to Amazon's rising stock price that resulted in one person's biggest one-year gain in wealth ($35 billion) since Forbes started tracking in 1987. As a result of the market crash caused by the Dot-com bubble, 83 billionaires dropped off the list from the previous year. Overall, net gainers (460) barely outnumbered net losers (441). The 2013 list featured 138 women, of which 50 came from the United States. Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway placed third, while Amancio Ortega of Spain, slipped down a position from the previous year to number four. December 15, 2020. The billionaires' net worth increased in 2007 by $900 billion to $3.5 trillion. [41], In the wake of the Financial crisis of 2007–2008, the world's billionaires lost $2 trillion in net worth and the list became 30% smaller than the previous year's list.[42]. Slim wins it again", "Factbox: Record number of billionaires make Forbes 2013 list", "Forbes rich list 2012: Carlos Slim tops rich list for third year", "Spanx creator Sara Blakely becomes youngest woman on Forbes Billionaires List", "Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey Drop in Forbes Billionaire Ranking", "Forbes' 2011 list of 'World's Billionaires' is biggest ever", "Bill Gates No Longer World's Richest Man", "China ranks No 2 on Forbes billionaires list", "The Giving Pledge List Reaches $365 Billion", New York University Stern School of Business, "Greenspan Kennedy Report – Table 2 – Sources and Uses of Equity Extracted from Homes", "Billionaires 25th Anniversary Timeline – Forbes", "Inside The 2013 Billionaires List: Facts and Figures", "Forbes rich list: ten years of top tens", "The World's Richest Billionaires: Full List Of The Top 500", "Forbes Releases 28th Annual World's Billionaires Issue", "Forbes' 29th Annual World's Billionaires Issue", Largest financial services companies by revenue, Largest manufacturing companies by revenue, Largest information technology companies by revenue, Public corporations by market capitalization, The rich get richer and the poor get poorer, Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_World%27s_Billionaires&oldid=1010768432, Pages with non-numeric formatnum arguments, Wikipedia pages semi-protected against vandalism, Short description is different from Wikidata, All Wikipedia articles written in American English, Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2018, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Articles with unsourced statements from February 2020, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. [5] The U.S. had the most billionaires in the world, with 585, while China was catching up with 476 when including Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan; it had 372 when excluding those three places. Preliminary surveys are sent to those who may qualify for the list. Royalty and dictators whose wealth comes from their positions are excluded from these lists. [33] Vietnam's Phạm Nhật Vượng was the first person from that country to be included in this list. [1] Aliko Dangote of Nigeria became the first African to enter the top 25, with an estimated net worth of $25 billion. The rankings are published annually in March, so the net worths listed are snapshots taken at that time. Has not changed from the previous ranking. The definitive guide to wealth of the UK's richest 1,000 people. IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad was the largest loser as he saw his fortune plummet from $23 billion to $6 billion, dropping him from 11th to 162nd overall. 8. Iceland had a billionaire, Thor Bjorgolfsson, in the list after a gap of five years. January 14, 2018 at 10:11am. [37] However, Nigerian commodity mogul Aliko Dangote was the greatest gainer on a percentage basis as his fortune increased 557 percent to $13.5 billion. [31] Overall, net gainers outnumbered net losers by 4:1.[32]. She swaps with L'Oréal heiress Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, who’s the second richest woman on the 2020 list. [1] The total net worth of each individual on the list is estimated and is cited in United States dollars, based on their documented assets and accounting for debt and other factors. The list has been described as a collection of the country's "elite movers and shakers" and contains people from all walks of life, from Finance to Retail and from Music to Sport. [47] Billionaires' fortunes were hit even harder by the global financial crisis; 2009 was the first time in five years that the world had a net loss in the number of billionaires. [5] The average net worth of the list came in at US$4.1 billion, up US$350 million from 2017. WhatsApp . [6] Added together, the total net worth for 2017's billionaires was US$7.67 trillion, up from US$7.1 trillion in 2015. They went through a year where they initially reported a 26 . Turkey saw the most people drop off the list, 19, due to a period of high inflation in the country.