who is the richest person in the world 2018 by forbes?
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Jeff Bezos is the world's wealthiest person for the third year in a row, despite giving $36 billion worth of his Amazon stock to his ex-wife MacKenzie Bezos as part of their divorce settlement last summer.
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Bill Gates is back to being the second-richest person in the world Wednesday, a day after ceding the spot to luxury goods kingpin Bernard Arnault. Arnault was No. 2 richest for just one day; his net worth fell from $107 billion Tuesday to $106 billion as of 4:30 p.m. ET Wednesday.
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the world's wealthiest person for the third year in a row, worth $113 billion.
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Jeff Bezos, the founder of e-commerce giant Amazon, continues to remain the world's richest person, according to the Forbes World's Billionaire List.
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Some people are unfathomably rich. According to Forbes, as of April 2020, Amazon's Jeff Bezos is the wealthiest man alive, with $113 billion to his name. That's around the combined gross domestic product of Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia, which have around 74 million people between them.
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Billionaires added an average of $2.5 billion to their collective fortunes every day in 2018, bringing their share of the world's wealth to $1.4 trillion, according to Oxfam. The richest person in the world right now is Jeff Bezos, who has a $114 billion net worth.
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Mukesh Ambani, Asia's richest man, saw his wealth surge US$18 billion in 2019.
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Jeff Bezos, 56, is the richest man in the world, despite transferring a quarter of his Amazon stake to his ex-wife MacKenzie last summer, according to Forbes.
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According to 2018 Forbes data, the richest man in India is business magnate Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of about 47.3 billion U.S. dollars.
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Net Worth: $146.9 Billion In 2020, Jeff Bezos has become the richest man in the world, after adding a whopping $40 billion to his net worth last couple of years!
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Amancio Ortega from Spain takes the top spot with a fortune of almost $75 billion, followed by Bernard Arnault at just under $63 billion. These two men are in the top the five richest people in the world.
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"Jeff Bezos is the world's wealthiest person for the third year in a row, despite giving $36 billion worth of his Amazon stock to his ex-wife MacKenzie Bezos as part of their divorce settlement last summer. He's worth $113 billion, buoyed by a 15 percent rise in Amazon's shares since our 2019 list," Forbes stated.
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Jeff Bezos is the richest person in the world He's trailed closely by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, whose estimated worth is $113 billion. Bezos, Gates and French business magnate Bernard Arnault are the only three billionaires on the list whose net worths exceed $100 billion.
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30 -- The world's richest got even richer in 2019. And Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is still the richest man in the world with over $116 billion. He tops the Bloomberg Billionaires Index which tracks the 500 wealthiest around the globe.
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Bernard Arnault is now the world's second-richest person, according to Forbes' calculations. The luxury goods titan behind such brands as Louis Vuitton and Moet & Chandon is worth $103.2 billion as of around noon today, up from $76 billion in March when Forbes published our annual billionaire rankings.
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos takes the crown among these billionaires with wealth of $140 billion, followed by Bernard Arnault and Bill Gates with wealth at $107 and $106 billion respectively.