List of Richest Persons in the World

Calculating the net worth of a person and determining the list of 20 richest persons in the world becomes quite a tough task because there is an endless list of the richest persons in the world. Also, according to Forbes’ ranking of the richest individuals, the population of billionaires has now risen to 2,153, which was around 53 a few years ago.

Therefore, to avoid this confusion, a parameter called Bloomberg Billionaires Index is used to determine the World’s 20 top richest people. This index also helps us see the biggest movers, and compare their fortunes or track returns.

Here, we will be focusing on the top twenty richest people in the world, so we will discuss the 20 richest men in the world with their net worth and the country they belong to.

What is the Bloomberg Billionaires Index?

The Bloomberg Billionaires Index is a daily ranking for preparing a list of 20 richest people in the world.

So, for determining the net worth, Bloomberg News ventures to obtain transparency across all the individual billionaire profiles that contain a detailed analysis of how that person's fortune is calculated.

Bloomberg index is a dynamic measure of personal wealth based on variations in markets, the economy, and the Bloomberg reporting. Each person’s updated net worth figure is provided every business day after the closing of trades in New York, United States. Therefore, stakes in publicly traded companies are valued as per the share's most recent closing price. Valuations in the respective currencies are converted to U.S. dollars at current exchange rates, like today, 1 Rupee is equal to 0.013 US Dollar.

Now, let us go through the world’s top 20 richest people in a tabular form that describes the running on the basis of the net worth of the 20 richest people in the world.

World’s 20 Richest People 

The below table lists the top twenty richest men in the world, besides the total net worth of the 20 richest people in the world as per their rank, you will find the last change, year to the date change, the industry, and the country they belong to:

From the above table of the top 20 richest people in the world, Mukesh Ambani is at rank 12 among the world’s top 20 richest people.

Interesting Facts: Top Richest People in the World 

• Mukesh Ambani became the seven richest man in the world on June 27, 2020.

• The coronavirus pandemic increased the wealth gap, with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. Forbes reported that as a result of the evidence, 493 people were recently added to the 2021 Forbes Billionaire list, which operates to an average of one new billionaire every 17 hours.

• Though many billionaires saw their net worths descending amidst the pandemic, many got richer, as per Forbes report. Besides this, 250 people who had lost their billionaire status in previous years received their previous ranking in 2021.

So, we have gone through the top 20 world's richest men; this list is very important for students preparing for various competitive examinations and IAS, banking, SSC interviews.