Billionaire Gautam Adani is, for now, not among the three wealthiest individuals in the world, as he slipped to the fourth spot on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a daily ranking of the world’s richest people.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the now the third wealthiest person, while the top two of Bernard Arnault (Louis Vitton) and Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter) remained unchanged on January 24. Reliance Group chairman Mukesh Ambani, too, slipped, going down by a spot, and his current net worth is the twelfth highest in the world.

Adani, on the other hand, saw his net worth decline by $872 million in the last 24 hours, and he has lost $683 million since January 24, 2022; the corresponding figures for Ambani are $457 million and $2.38 billion, respectively. However, they continue to be the two richest Asians.

Rank Name Total net worth Change since yesterday Change since this date last year Country Industry
1. Bernard Arnault $188 billion + $2.13 billion + $26 billion France Consumer
2. Elon Musk $145 billion + $6.56 billion + $8.21 billion USA Technology
3. Jeff Bezos $121 billion + $318 million + $13.8 billion USA Technology
4. Gautam Adani $120 billion – $872 million – $683 million India Industrial
5. Bill Gates $111 billion + $630 million + $1.95 billion USA Technology
6. Warren Buffett $108 billion + $283 million + $630 million USA Diversified
7. Larry Ellison $99.5 billion + $2 billion + $7.64 billion USA Technology
8. Larry Page $92.3 billion + $1.44 billion + $9.42 billion USA Technology
9. Sergey Brin $88.7 billion + $1.44 billion + $ 9.3 billion USA Technology
10. Steve Balmer $86.9 billion + $778 million + $ 1.08 billion  USA Technology
12. Mukesh Ambani $84.7 billion – $457 million – $2.38 billion India Energy
45. Shapoor Mistry $29.2 billion + $245 million + $1.39 billion India Industrial
51. Shiv Nadar $26.5 billion + $194 million + $1.98 billion India Technology
57. Azim Premji $25 billion + $72.2 million + $1.03 billion India Technology
81. Lakshmi Mittal $19.4 billion + $125 million + $1.99 billion India Commodities
97. Cyrus Poonawalla $17.2 billion + $115 million + $3.01 billion India Health Care
100. Radhakishan Dhamani $16.8 billion – $442 million – $2.53 billion India Retail

Bloomberg Billionaires Index

The index prepares daily rankings of the 500 wealthiest people and is published by Bloomberg News. First published in March 2012, the index measured only the 20 richest people, and then expanded to 100, 200, 300, 400, and finally, in October 2016, to the current format.

The figures are updated at the close of every trading day in New York.


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