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Annual Rankings

The rankings are published annually each March and provide a snapshot of billionaires' net worth at that time. The 2018 rankings showed the wealth gap widening between the richest 1% and other billionaires, with the top 20 worth $1.2 trillion or 13% of the total. A record 2,208 billionaires were listed with a total wealth of $9.1 trillion, an 18% increase from 2017. Jeff Bezos topped the list for the first time due to Amazon's stock growth. The U.S. had the most billionaires while China is catching up.

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Annual Rankings

The rankings are published annually each March and provide a snapshot of billionaires' net worth at that time. The 2018 rankings showed the wealth gap widening between the richest 1% and other billionaires, with the top 20 worth $1.2 trillion or 13% of the total. A record 2,208 billionaires were listed with a total wealth of $9.1 trillion, an 18% increase from 2017. Jeff Bezos topped the list for the first time due to Amazon's stock growth. The U.S. had the most billionaires while China is catching up.

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Annual rankings

The rankings are published annually in March, so the net worth listed are snapshots
taken at that time. These lists only show the top 10 wealthiest billionaires for each year.
2018
In the 32nd annual Forbes list of the world's billionaires, the gap between the top one
percent and the rest of the billionaires continued to widen with the 20 richest people on
the planet worth $1.2 trillion that amounts to 13 percent of all billionaires' fortunes
combined.[2] A record of 2,208 billionaires were in the ranking and the total wealth was
$9.1 trillion, up 18% since 2017. For the first time, Jeff Bezos was listed as the top
billionaire due to Amazon's rising stock price that resulted in one person's biggest one
year gain in wealth ($35 billion) since Forbes started tracking in 1987.[2] The
U.S. continued to have the most billionaires in the world, with a record of 585, while
China is catching up with 476 (when including Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan).[2]

Net
worth (USD) Source(s) of
No. Name Age Nationality
wealth
(March
2018)[14]

United
1 Jeff Bezos $112 billion 54 Amazon
States
United
2 Bill Gates $90 billion 62 Microsoft
States
Warren United Berkshire
3 $84 billion 87
Buffett States Hathaway
Bernard
4 $72 billion 69 France LVMH
Arnault
Mark United
5 $71 billion 33 Facebook
Zuckerberg States
Amancio
6 $70 billion 81 Spain Inditex, Zara
Ortega
América
7 Carlos Slim $67.1 billion 78 Mexico
Móvil, Grupo Carso
United
8 Charles Koch $60 billion 82 Koch Industries
States
United
8 David Koch $60 billion 77 Koch Industries
States
Oracle Corporation
United
10 Larry Ellison $58.5 billion 73
States

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