Top 10 World’s Billionaires in 2018. In the 32nd annual Forbes list of the world’s billionaires, the aggregate wealth of the top 20 richest people on Earth amounted to about 13 percent of all billionaires’ fortunes combined. 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. The U.S. had the most billionaires in the world, with 585, while China was catching up with 476 when including Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan; it had 372 when excluding those three places. Forbes excluded Al-Walid bin Talal and all other Saudi billionaires due to the absence of accurate wealth estimations as a result of the 2017–19 Saudi Arabian purge
Here is a List of Top 10 World’s Billionaires in 2018
- Jeff Bezos – $112 billion
- Bill Gates – $90 billion
- Warren Buffett – $84 billion
- Bernard Arnault – $72 billion
- Mark Zuckerberg – $71 billion
- Amancio Ortega – $70 billio
- Carlos Slim – $67.1 billion
- Charles Koch – $60 billion
- David Koch – $60 billion
- Larry Ellison – $58.5 billion
