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The 46 people who are as rich as half the world’s population

Who has the world's wealth?
Vagit Alekperov – $20.7 billion (£16.6bn)
Susanne Klatten – $21 billion (£16.9bn)
Vladimir Lisin – $21.3 billion (£17.1bn)
James Simons – $21.5 billion (£17.3bn)
Masayoshi Son – $21.6 billion (£17.4bn)
Yang Huiyan – $22.1 billion (£17.7bn)
Tadashi Yanai – $22.2 billion (£17.8bn)
Elon Musk – $22.3 billion (£17.9bn)
Giovanni Ferrero – $22.4 billion (£18bn)
Wang Jianlin – $22.6 billion (£18.2bn)
Dieter Schwarz – $22.6 billion (£18.2bn)
Azim Premji – $22.6 billion (£18.2bn)
Jorge Paulo Lemann – $22.8 billion (£18.3bn)
John Mars – $23.9 billion (£19.2bn)
Jacqueline Mars – $23.9 billion (£19.2bn)
Leonid Mikhelson – $24 billion (£19.3bn)
Joseph Safra – $25.2 billion (£20.3bn)
François Pinault – $29.7 billion (£23.4bn)
Lee Shau-kee – $30.1 billion (£24.2bn)
Li Ka-shing – $31.7 billion (£25.5bn)
David Thomson – $32.5 billion (£26.1bn)
Phil Knight – $33.4 billion (£26.8bn)
Michael Dell – $34.3 billion (£27.6bn)
Sheldon Adelson – $35.1 billion (£28.2bn)
Beate Heister and Karl Albrecht Jr. – $36.1 billion (£29bn)
Hui Ka Yan – $36.2 billion (£29.1bn)
Jack Ma – $37.3 billion (£30bn)
Ma Huateng – $38.8 billion (£31.2bn)
Steve Ballmer – $41.2 billion (£33.1bn)
Rob Walton – $44.3 billion (£35.6bn)
Alice Walton – $44.4 billion (£35.7bn)
Jim Walton – $44.6 billion (£35.9bn)
Françoise Bettencourt Meyers – $49.3 billion (£39.6bn)
Sergey Brin – $49.8 billion (£40bn)
Mukesh Ambani – $50 billion (£40.2bn)
Charles Koch – $50.5 billion (£40.6bn)
Larry Page – $50.8 billion (£40.8bn)
Michael Bloomberg – $55.5 billion (44.6bn)
Mark Zuckerberg – $62.3 billion (£50bn)
Larry Ellison – $62.5 billion (50.2bn)
Amancio Ortega – $62.7 billion (£50.3bn)
Carlos Slim Helú – $64 billion (51.4bn)
Bernard Arnault – $76 billion (£61.1bn)
Warren Buffett – $82.5billion (£66.3bn)
Bill Gates – $96.5 billion (£77.6bn)
Jeff Bezos – $131 billion (£105.3bn)
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Who has the world's wealth?

The 2018 Global Wealth Report from Credit Suisse revealed that total global wealth has now reached $317 trillion (£255tn). However, this wealth is far from equally distributed. In fact, the study found that the poorest half of the world's population own less than 1% of that total. With this in mind, here's a look at the billionaires who together have almost the same wealth as 50% of the planet. Net worth figures have been taken from Forbes Billionaires list 2019.

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Amy Palmer

24 September 2019

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