Forbes Billionaires List Announced: 31 Turks on the list this year
The American Business Magazine Forbes announced this year’s list of billionaires. The number of people on Forbes’s Billionaire List exceeded 3,000 for the first time this year. The total wealth of billionaires whose 31 of them are Turkish were 16.1 trillion dollars.
The list of billionaires of American Business Magazine Forbes has been announced.
Forbes’ list of billionaires released for the 39th time this year showed that the population of the billionaire club has increased.
Accordingly, the number of billions around the world, 247 people increased compared to last year reached 3 thousand 28.
Thus, the number of billionaires on the list, which includes a record number of people, exceeded 3,000 for the first time this year.
The total of billionaires increased by 2 trillion dollars compared to last year and rose to $ 16.1 trillion.
This figure is on the gross domestic product of the countries outside the United States and China (GDP).
Musk is the richest in the world
The US businessman Elon Musk, the owner of companies such as Tesla, SpaceX, X and XAI, was at the top of the list as the richest person in the world with a reserve of 342 billion dollars.
Musk, which is responsible for the activities of the Government Productivity Department (Doge), which caused controversy in the United States, added $ 147 billion to its reserve in the last year thanks to the achievements of SpaceX and Artificial Intelligence Company XAI.
Mark Zuckerberg, the top manager of Meta, one of the US technology giants, was in the second place with a 216 billion dollar reserve, while Jeff Bezos, the founder of the US e-commerce giant Amazon, was third with a $ 215 billion reserve.
Larry Ellison, the founding partner of the software company Oracle, ranked fourth in the list with a $ 192 billion reserve and Bernard Arnault, the top manager of luxury giant Lvmh, and ranked fifth with 178 billion dollars.
Trump doubled his reserve
Donald Trump, who was sitting in the presidential seat in the United States for the second time, not only won the election victory, but has doubled his reserve.
Trump’s net wealth increased from $ 2.3 billion to $ 5.1 billion.
The country that hosts the most billionaire is the USA
The US continued to be the country with the highest billionaire in the world with 902 billionaires. This country was followed by China with 516 billionaires and India with 205 billionaires.
The number of women reached 406 billionaires, 13.4 percent of the list made up. The world’s richest woman was Alice Walton, the heir of Walmart, one of the US retail giants with a fortune of $ 101 billion.
The average age of billionaires was 66, while the oldest billionaire was recorded as 103 -year -old US insurance king George Joseph.
19 -year -old Johannes von Baumbach, the heir of German pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim, was on the list as the youngest billionaire.
31 names from Türkiye on the list
Forbes’ Billionaire List took 31 names from Türkiye this year.
Yıldız Holding Board Member Murat State, with a 5.5 billion dollar reserve, was the richest and 639th in the list.
Ülker was followed by Cemil Kazancı, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Kazancı Holding with a 4.3 billion dollar reserve, Koç Holding Board Member İpek Kıraç with a 3.2 billion dollars of leyalty, Koç Holding Board Member Semahat Arsel with 3.1 billion dollars and Renaissance Holding Chairman Erman Ilıcak with 3.1 billion dollars.
The total wealth of the billionaires on the list from Türkiye was calculated as approximately 65.05 billion dollars.
In addition, 4 Turks, who acquired their reserve through companies abroad, attracted attention.
German -based biotechnology firm Bigontch’s top manager (CEO) and its founding partner. Dr. Uğur Şahin, US -based aviation company Sierra Nevada Corporation President Eren Özmen and his top manager Fatih Özmen and the US yogurt brand Chobani’s founder and top manager Hamdi Ulukaya was one of the Turkish names in the list of billionaires.
Thus, 35 Turks took part in Forbes’s Billionaire List.
