Forbes published the ranking of the richest people in the world

The American Forbes published the 38th world ranking of dollar billionaires.

For the second year in a row, Bernard Arnault, chairman and CEO of the Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy group of companies, tops the ranking of the world's richest billionaires. Within a year, he became richer by 22 billion dollars, and now his fortune is estimated at 233 billion dollars.

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are in the second and third places, as they were a year ago, respectively. Mark Zuckerberg returned to the top ten this year.

Like last year, the 2nd and 3rd positions were contested by Elon Musk, the owner of Tesla and SpaceX, who topped the ranking in 2022, and Jeff, the head of Amazon, who topped the ranking of the richest people for four consecutive years until 2022. Bezos.

Musk beat Bezos last year by earning $1 billion more.

The return of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was a top ten surprise. During the year, he earned more than 100 billion dollars and came in 4th place (last year he was 16th).

There is only one woman in this year's top twenty: Françoise Bettencourt-Mayer, vice president of the L'Oréal cosmetics empire. His net worth increased slightly to $99.5 billion. She is in 15th place, confirming her status as the richest woman on the planet.

And one of the descendants of Sam Walton, the founder of the Walmart empire, Ellis Walton left the top 20, lagging behind his brothers who took 18th and 19th places. Charles and Julia Kocher also left the top 20.

According to the list of the world's billionaires published by Forbes, the wealth of the 20 richest people in the world is estimated at 2.48 trillion dollars.