17 March 2022
On Wednesday, research platform Hurun in coordination with real-estate group M3M released a list of the world's richest people. The title of the report is, "The 2022 M3M Hurun Global Rich List".
Here are some important takeaways from that list :-
• Despite Covid-19 and Russia-Ukraine war, the world added 153 billionaires in last one year (i.e. 3 billionaires per week) taking the total number of billionaires to 3,381 across the whole world.
• Top 5 countries with most billionaires are - China (1133), USA (716), India (215), UK (150), Germany (145)
• Top 10 richest people in the world -
• Top 3 cities with fastest growing number of billionaires in last one year - London(19) Mumbai (12), and New Delhi (11).
• Table -
• Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries is the richest Indian as well as Asian in the world. With an increase of 20 billions dollars in last one year, his total wealth has now reached to 103 billion dollars.
• Gautam Adani, head of Adani Group is the second richest Indian as well as Asian after Mukesh Ambani. With an increase of 49 billion dollars in last one year, his total wealth has reached to 81 billion dollars. He gained the most wealth in last one year among all the billionaires in the world. He added 1 billion dollars every week to shoot up 36 places to 12th position in the Global Rich List.
• Falguni Nayar, founder of Nykaa became India's most successful woman with a total wealth of 7.6 billion dollars.
• Vijay Shekhar Sharma, founder of Paytm saw his wealth go down 58% to a total of 1.3 billion dollars.
• Top 5 industries with most billionaires - Financial services, Healthcare, Real Estate, Retail, and Consumer Goods.
• Top 5 donators of wealth - Mackenzie Scott, ex-wife of Jeff Bezos (8.6 billion dollars), Elon Musk (5.7 billion dollars), Wang Xing (2 billion dollars), Lei Jun, Xiaomi (2 billion dollars), Ding Shizhong (1.2 billion dollars).
• Richest family in the world - The Walton family of Walmart with a total wealth of 232 billion dollars, richer than Elon Musk.
• 39 billionaires died during the last one year.
• Billionaires growth chart -
Source - https://www.hurunindia.net/m3m-hurun-global-rich-list-2022