Billionaire, businessman and the chairman and chief executive of LVMH (LVMUY), Bernard Arnault holds the crown as the richest person in the world. According to Forbes, Arnault has a fortune of $234.5 billion.
In 2020, with Americans dying in large numbers from the pandemic, Bezos had become to billionaire wealth hoarding what Barry Bonds had become to home run records. As noted by USA Today, the reporting on Bezos becoming the first trillionaire occurred when Amazon workers were publicly protesting over safety issues.
Andrew Forrest, $33.29 billion (up $2.57 billion)
A familiar face towards the top of the Rich List, Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest has retained his spot as Australia's second-richest person and the country's wealthiest man.
Forbes' real-time data shows that as of June 2023, there are 47 Australian billionaires on the list of the world's richest people.
Walton Family
The Walton family knows its way around some retail revenue. Its namesake, mega-retailer Walmart, has an estimated global revenue of $611.3 billion. As the family owns nearly half of the company, they should be quite comfortable for generations to come.
One trillion equals a thousand billions, or million millions. 1 trillion consists of 1 followed by 12 zeros, that is, 1, 000, 000,000, 000 and can be written as 1012 (ten to the twelfth power). It takes about 32,000 years to finish 1 trillion seconds.
The richest person ever is thought to have been an emperor with an accumulation of wealth often described as “unimaginable” or “incalculable.” The title goes to 14th-century African emperor Mansa Musa, and his wealth has been estimated to be the modern day equivalent of $400 billion.
In broader terms, the finance and investment profession has the most millionaires. It also has the most billionaires, with 371. Here's a list of the seven best careers if you want to be a millionaire.
The top 10 richest families in 2022 by estimated wealth are: The Walton family with $224.5 billion. The Mars family with $160 billion. The Koch family with $128.8 billion.
Elon Musk, pictured at the 2022 Met Gala, is no longer the richest person in the world. Elon Musk is no longer the world's richest person after being overtaken—again—by French billionaire Bernard Arnault.
It's a thousand billion. It's a one followed by 12 zeros.
Zillion, gazillion, or prillion are quite large numbers. They can be even large if we use terms like mega in front of them, such as “Mega-Million.” People use these terms because they don't know the proper names for bigger terms or what comes after trillion.
Zillion sounds like an actual number because of its similarity to billion, million, and trillion, and it is modeled on these real numerical values. However, like its cousin jillion, zillion is an informal way to talk about a number that's enormous but indefinite.
The Rothschild family possessed the largest private fortune in the world during the 19th century, even in modern world history, but the family's wealth declined over the 20th century and was divided among many descendants, of whom only a few remain billionaires individually.
How much is the Rockefeller family worth today? Rockefeller family's Net Worth is over $360 Billion Dollars.
Australians are the richest people in the world, with a median wealth three times that of the average American, a new report has shown.
Australia has plentiful supplies of natural resources, including the second largest accessible reserves of iron ore in the world, the fifth largest reserves of coal and significant gas resources. For a long time, commodities have made up a sizeable share of our exports.