The Richest People in the World in 2021

From visualcapitalist.com

Over $567 billion has been amassed by the 10 richest people in the world in less than a year. To put that into perspective, that’s more than sevenfold the wealth accumulated by the top 10 in the time period prior. As just one example, Elon Musk witnessed his wealth increase at least 500% in the last year. Meanwhile, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, has earned a cool extra $68.6 billion. The 10 Richest People in the World With a net worth of $182 billion, Jeff Bezos is the wealthiest in the world. After 26 years, Bezos announced he would step down as Amazon CEO to become executive chairman to focus on Blue Origin, among other ... (full story)