Billionaire List 2024: The world’s richest billionaire Elon Musk has been showered with a lot of dollars in the last two-three days. Due to such rain, Musk, who was the top loser in this year’s earnings, has now joined the list of top gainers. His wealth has increased by about 24 billion dollars in two days. Still on top in terms of earnings for the year 2024. His net worth has increased by $63.7 billion this year to reach $108 billion.
Shares of Elon Musk’s company Tesla have jumped more than 24 percent in the last 5 days. This also affected Musk’s wealth. Due to this, Musk earned $15.3 billion in a single day on Tuesday. Musk now tops the Bloomberg Billionaires Index with a net worth of $241 billion. At number two is former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. His total wealth is 222 billion dollars.
Top 10 highest earning billionaires this year
1. Jensen Huang 63.7
2. Mark Zuckerberg 53
3. Jeff Bezos 44.7
4. Michael Dell 38.7
5. Larry Page 37.5
6. Sergey Brin 34.3
Larry Ellison 34.1
7. Steve Ballmer 27.2
8. Mukesh Ambani 22.1
9. Gautam Adani 20.01
10. Rodolphe Sade and Family 18.7
Figures in billion dollars, Source: bloomberg
Jensen Huang beats Adani
Asia’s second richest man Gautam Adani has lagged behind Jensen Huang in the list of the world’s richest. Huang is now ranked 13th with a net worth of $108 billion. Adani is at 14th position with $104 billion. Mukesh Ambani is at 11th position with a net worth of $118 billion.
Savitri Jindal just behind Elon Musk
In terms of this earning, Elon Musk is at 17th place. Right behind them is India’s Savitri Jindal. Jindal is at 44th position in the list of world’s billionaires. His wealth has increased by $11.4 billion this year to $36.1 billion. Musk has added $12.4 billion to his net worth this year.
