Jeff Bezos is Once Again World's Wealthiest Person

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is once again the richest person in the world, despite his divorce last year which cost him a quarter of his stake in the tech giant.

Bezos, 56 - who founded the e-commerce company out of his basement in Seattle, Washington in 1994 - is worth $113billion today, only a $18billion drop from his $131billion in 2019, despite giving $36billion worth of stocks to ex Mackenzie.

He managed to remain in the top spot despite the coronavirus pandemic cutting the number of people on Forbes' Richest Billionaires List, bringing the total down 56 people from last year to only 2,095 in 2020.

The magazine said that only 12 days ago there were 226 more billionaires on their list, noting that of the remaining group, 51% percent were poorer than last year.

Collectively they're worth $8trillion, which is down $700billion from 2019's billionaires.

In the case of Bezos, Amazon's shares have risen 15 percent since 2019.

FORBES 10 RICHEST BILLIONAIRES 2020

1 Jeff Bezos 

$113bn (2020) $131bn (2019)

2 Bill Gates

$98bn(2020) $96.5bn (2019)

3 Bernard Arnault

$76bn (2020) $76bn (2019)

4 Warren Buffett

$67.5bn (2020) $82.5bn (2019)

5 Larry Ellison

$59bn (2020) $62.5bn (2019)

6 Amanico Ortega

$55.1bn (2020) $62.7bn (2019)

7 Mark Zuckerberg 

$54.7bn (2020) $62.3bn (2019)

8 Jim Walton

$54.6bn (2020) $44.6bn (2019)

9 Alice Walton 

$54.4billion (2020) $44.4bn (2019)

10 Rob Walton 

$54.1billion (2020) $44.3bn (2019) 

 

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