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World Billionaire List

War, the pandemic, and market volatility reduced the number of billionaires to 2,668 with a collective net worth of $12.7 trillion, down from last year. While some billionaires lost wealth, more than 1,000 became richer and 236 new billionaires emerged from countries like Barbados and Uruguay. The United States still has the most billionaires at 735 worth $4.7 trillion, led by Elon Musk as the richest person.

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World Billionaire List

War, the pandemic, and market volatility reduced the number of billionaires to 2,668 with a collective net worth of $12.7 trillion, down from last year. While some billionaires lost wealth, more than 1,000 became richer and 236 new billionaires emerged from countries like Barbados and Uruguay. The United States still has the most billionaires at 735 worth $4.7 trillion, led by Elon Musk as the richest person.

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The Richest in 2022

EDITED BY KERRY A. DOLAN


AND CHASE PETERSON-WITHORN

PRESENTED BY

W
ar, pandemic and sluggish
markets hit the world’s
billionaires this year. There are
2,668 of them on Forbes’ 36th-
annual ranking of the planet’s
richest people—87 fewer than a year ago.
They’re worth a collective $12.7 trillion—$400
billion less than in 2021. The most dramatic
drops have occurred in Russia, where there are
34 fewer billionaires than last year following
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and
China, where a government crackdown on tech
companies has led to 87 fewer Chinese
billionaires on the list.
Still, Forbes found more than 1,000 billionaires
who are richer than they were a year ago. And
236 newcomers have become billionaires over
the past year—including the first ever from
Barbados, Bulgaria, Estonia and Uruguay.
America still leads the world, with 735
billionaires worth a collective $4.7 trillion,
including Elon Musk, who tops the World’s
Billionaires list for the first time. China
(including Macau and Hong Kong) remains
number two, with 607 billionaires worth a
collective $2.3 trillion. We used stock prices and
exchange rates from March 11, 2022 to calculate
net worths. See below for the full list of the
world’s billionaires and our methodology. For
daily updated net worths of all 2,668
billionaires, check out our real-time billionaires
rankings.

Methodology

The Forbes World’s Billionaires list is a snapshot of


wealth using stock prices and exchange rates from
March 11, 2022. Some people become richer or poorer
within days of publication. We list individuals rather
than multigenerational families who share fortunes,
though we include wealth belonging to a billionaire’s
spouse and children if that person is the founder of the
fortune. In some cases we list siblings or couples
together if the ownership breakdown among them
isn’t clear, but here an estimated net worth of $1 billion
per person is needed to make the cut. We value a
variety of assets, including private companies, real
estate, art and more. We don’t pretend to know each
billionaire’s private balance sheet (though some
provide it). When documentation isn’t supplied or
available, we discount fortunes. For daily updates of
net worths, go to www.forbes.com/real-time-
billionaires.

Acknowledgements

Special thanks to CBRE, FactSet Research Systems,


LCH Investments, Orbis by Bureau Van Dijk, PitchBook
Data, Real Capital Analytics, S&P Capital IQ,
VesselsValue and the other experts who helped us with
our reporting and valuations, including George de
Benedicty, Ocala Ranches; Ben Bienvenu, Stephens;
Jurgen Brauer, Small Arms Analytics; Sebastian Bray,
Berenberg; Jonathan Chappell, Evercore ISI; Rommel
T. Dionisio, Aegis Capital Corp.; Truman Fleming;
Randy Giveans, Jefferies; Seth Goldstein, Morningstar;
Lars Haugen, CBRE; Ashley Helgans, Jefferies; Evelyn
Hendrich, Hendrich Real Estate; Arpine Kocharyan,
UBS; Jonathan Lamers, BMO Nesbitt Burns; Gail
Lissner; Irene Luke, Savills Monaco; Jack McCabe;
Alison McGavigan, JLL; Ross Moore, Cresa; Bruce
Nash, Nash Information Services; Joel Paige; Alok
Patel, Berenberg; Carrie Russell, HVS; James
Rutherford, Stephens; Brian Sudano, Beverage
Marketing Corporation; Tim Swannie, Home Hunts;
Douglas B. Taylor; Andrea Teixeira, J.P. Morgan; Steph
Wissink, Jefferies; Jeffrey Wlodarczak, Pivotal
Research Group; Anastasia Yianni, Cyprus Sotheby's
International Realty; Ian Zaffino, Oppenheimer & Co.

Credits

EDITOR: Kerry A. Dolan


DEPUTY EDITOR: Chase Peterson-Withorn
ASIA EDITOR: Naazneen Karmali
COUNTRY EDITORS: Russell Flannery, Jane Ho, Luisa
Kroll, Natalie Robehmed
WEALTH TEAM: Richard J. Chang, David Dawkins,
Matt Durot, Eliza Haverstock, Cole Horton, John
Hyatt, Belle Long, Jemima McEvoy, Andrea Murphy,
James O’Donnell, Rachel Sandler, Giacomo Tognini,
Gigi Zamora and reporters at Forbes-licensed editions
in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Israel, Kazakhstan,
Mexico, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia and
Ukraine, and Affärsvärlden of Sweden.
REPORTERS: Dan Alexander, Anderson Antunes, Angel
Au-Yeung, Megha Bahree, Nina Bambysheva, Karina
Barrymore, Margherita Beale, Justin Birnbaum, Tim
Boreham, Igor Bosilkovski, Thomas Brewster, Jonathan
Burgos, Kenrick Cai, Nilgun Cavdar, Shu-Ching Jean
Chen, Isabel Contreras, Lauren Debter, Michael del
Castillo, Steven Ehrlich, Amy Feldman, Gloria Haraito,
Chris Helman, Alvaro Hernandez Zorrilla, Katie
Jennings, John Kang, Jeff Kauflin, Alex Knapp, Alex
Konrad, Eunice Lam, Zinnia Lee, Pudji Lestari, Nicole
Lindsay, Katherine Love, Iain Martin, Anis Shakirah
Mohd Muslimin, Lan Anh Nguyen, Robert Olsen,
Phisanu Phromchanya, Jonathan Ponciano, Aayushi
Pratap, Marella Putri, Anu Raghunathan, Yessar
Rosendar, Leonard Schoenberger, James Simms,
Chloe Sorvino, Deborah Steinborn, Jessica Tan,
Michela Tindera, Hank Tucker, Ozer Turan, Simran
Vaswani, Lisette Voytko, Catherine Wang, Yue Wang,
Ardian Wibisono, Rachel Williamson, Candice Wong,
Will Yakowicz, January Yen, Itai Zehorai.
RESEARCH: Sue Radlauer
EDITORIAL OPERATIONS: Justin Conklin
DESIGN DIRECTOR: Alicia Hallett-Chan
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Robyn Selman
PHOTO RESEARCH: Merrilee Barton, Gail Toivanen
DESIGN: Fernando Capeto, Stephanie Jones, James
Kim, Nick Sheeran, Philip Smith
VIDEO PRODUCERS: Meg Christensen, Matt Kang,
Juliet Muir, Jon Palmer, Kirsten Taggart
VIDEO DIRECTORS: Greg Andersson, Ivan Clow, Riley
Hallaway, Bernard Osei, Morgan Sun
PRODUCT: Autumn Jones
ENGINEERING: Gustavo Faria, Mays Shatnawi, Dmitri
Slavinsky
QA: Waed Mousa, Ronak Ray

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