Main Points
- 2,775 billionaires, 660 more than last year according to the Forbes annual rankings.
- In total, their value is 13.1 trillion dollars, 8 trillione than 2020.
- 493 new additions - about one new billionaire every 17 hours
For the fourth year in a row, Amazon's Jeff Bezos is emerging as the richest man on Earth, with a fortune of 177 billion dollars.
The presence of Tesla's Elon Musk in second place has caused a sensation, due to the increase of his fortune by 126.4 billion dollars in just 12 months, thanks to the shares rally of the American car industry (+ 705%).
LVMH's Bernard Arno (Luis Vuitton, Christian Dior, Sephora, etc.), Microsoft's Bill Gates and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg complete the top five places of the list.
The Greek presence
As for Greece, the only Greek billionaire (at 2,141) is considered to be Bardis Vardinogiannis of Motor Oil, with a total fortune of $ 1.4 billion.
The list of Forbes includes Philip Niarchos, who has a fortune of 2.8 billion dollars, but who, despite being Greek, is ranked among the billionaires of France.
Similar for Aristotle Mystakidis, who with a fortune of 2.3 billion dollars, is placed in the position of 1,262 and the billionaires of Switzerland.
Another Greek, Ivan Savvidis, one of Russia's billionaires, ranks 1,833 with a total fortune of $ 1.7 billion.
The four richest billionaires in Australia are Gina Rinehart, the richest Australian, in the metal and iron business, Andrew Forrest of Minara Resources, a mining company, and Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquha of Atlassian.
