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Tesla's Elon Musk drives past Jeff Bezos in Forbes' list of billionaires - Sky News

Elon Musk is now the world's richest man, according to Forbes, relegating Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to second place for the first time in four years.

Musk was worth an estimated $219bn (£166bn) on 11 March - when the Forbes' list of world billionaires locked in net worths - after adding $68bn to his fortune over the past year.

This was helped by a 33% jump in the share price of Tesla, his car-maker.

Bezos lost out due to a 3% drop in Amazon stock and increased charitable giving, which wiped $6bn from his net worth, Forbes said.

They were among 2,668 billionaires Forbes found for the list - a number that was down from last year's record 2,755. Between them, this year's billionaires are worth $12.7tn (£9.7tn), down from last year's $13.1tn (£10tn).

Some 236 people became billionaires for the first time, including pop star Rihanna and film director New Zealander Peter Jackson.

Barbados, Bulgaria, Estonia and Uruguay each gained their first billionaires.

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The US has the highest number of billionaires - 735, up from last year's 724 - while China (including Hong Kong and Macau) came in second with 607. India has 166, Germany 134 and Russia 83.

There were 34 fewer Russian billionaires on the list this year, hit by sanctions and the falling value of stocks and the rouble after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Forbes said that Russian billionaire wealth fell by more than $260bn (£198bn) in the past year.

China's billionaires were hit by a government crackdown on tech companies, weaker stocks, and a troubled property sector, leaving its billionaires some $500bn (£380bn) poorer than a year ago, although Forbes calculated that their combined worth is still $1.96trn (£1.5trn).

Forbes found 327 female billionaires, most of whom inherited their wealth, including the world's richest woman Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, whose grandfather founded beauty giant L'Oréal.

Some 101 women on the list are self-made billionaires - the richest of those is Fan Hongwei, who chairs the Chinese chemical fibre supplier Hengli Petrochemical and is worth an estimated $18.2bn (£13.8bn).

The richest billionaires in the world, according to Forbes:

1 - Elon Musk, who resides in the US state of Texas, with a net worth of $219bn from Tesla and Space X

Elon Musk departs from the justice center in Wilmington, Del., Tuesday, July 13, 2021. Musk pushed back again Tuesday against a lawsuit that blames him for engineering Tesla...s 2016 acquisition of a financially precarious company called SolarCity that was marred by conflicts of interest and never generated the profits Musk insisted it would. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Image: Elon Musk

2 - Jeff Bezos, who resides in the US state of Washington, with a net worth of $171bn from Amazon

Billionaire American businessman Jeff Bezos
Image: Jeff Bezos

3 - Bernard Arnault and family, who live in Paris, with a net worth of $158bn from luxury goods company LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton)

Bernard Arnault, billionaire and chairman of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE, speaks at the inauguration of the Atelier Louis Vuitton in Vendome, France, February 22, 2022. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
Image: Bernard Arnault

4 - Bill Gates, who lives in the US state of Washington, with a net worth of $129bn from Microsoft

Bill Gates speaks during the Global Investment Summit at the Science Museum, London. Picture date: Tuesday October 19, 2021.
Image: Bill Gates

5 - Warren Buffet, who lives in the US state of Nebraska, with a net worth of $118bn from multi-national conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway

Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett plays bridge during the Berkshire annual meeting weekend in Omaha, Nebraska May 3, 2015.
Image: Warren Buffett

6 - Larry Page, who lives in the US state of California, with a net worth of $111bn from Google

Larry Page, CEO and Co-founder of Alphabet enters Trump Tower ahead of a meeting of technology leaders with President-elect Donald Trump in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., December 14, 2016. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Image: Larry Page

7 - Sergey Brin, who lives in the US state of California, with a net worth of $107bn from Google

Sergey Brin, Google co-founder and founder of Bayshore Global Management attends the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland January 19, 2017. REUTERS/Ruben Sprich
Image: Sergey Brin

8 - Larry Ellison, who lives in Hawaii, with a net worth of $106bn from software

Oracle's Executive Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison gestures while giving a demonstration during his keynote address at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, California September 30, 2014. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith
Image: Larry Ellison

9 - Steve Ballmer, who lives in the US state of Washington, with a net worth of $91.4bn from Microsoft

Feb 25, 2022; Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer looks on as players warm up before the game against the Los Angeles Lakers. Pic: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports
Image: Steve Ballmer. Pic: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports

10 - Mukesh Ambani, who lives in India, with a net worth of $90.7bn from Reliance Industries, which has interests in petrochemicals, oil and gas, telecom and retail

Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries, smiles as he attends the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 23, 2018.
Image: Mukesh Ambani

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