Forbes Announces Billionaires List

Forbes has published its 2023 Billionaires List. While Bernard Arnault, the boss of LVMH, took first place on the Billionaires List, there were also 26 names from Turkey on the list this year. The richest name was Erdemoğlu Holding Chairman of the Board of Directors and SASA boss İbrahim Erdemoğlu. According to the Billionaires List published by Forbes for the 37th time this year, the number of billionaires worldwide decreased by 28 compared to the previous year, falling to 2,640, marking the second consecutive decrease. While the number of people on the Billionaires List of American business magazine Forbes decreased to 2,640 this year, the total wealth of billionaires decreased by 500 billion dollars to 12.2 trillion dollars. According to Forbes’ 37th Billionaires List, the number of billionaires worldwide decreased by 28 compared to the previous year, falling to 2,640, marking the second consecutive decrease. As economic turbulence hit the public and private sectors, billionaires’ wealth decreased by $500 billion, falling to $12.2 trillion. Elon Musk, whose Tesla shares fell after he bought Twitter for a high price last year, dropped from first to second on the billionaires list. Musk’s wealth was calculated to be approximately $180 billion, down $39 billion compared to the previous year. Bernard Arnault, the chairman of luxury goods giant LVMH, took first place on the list with a fortune of $211 billion. This is the first time a French citizen has topped the list. 254 people are no longer billionaires The wealth of nearly half of the billionaires decreased compared to last year, while a total of 254 people lost their billionaire status. Among those who lost this status, names such as Sam Bankman-Fried, the Founder and former CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, who was accused of fraud, Gary Wang, one of the former managers of FTX, and musician Kanye West drew attention. The US continued to be the country with the most billionaires, with 735 members of the list, whose total wealth is $4.5 trillion. China came in second with 562 billionaires (including Hong Kong and Macau) with assets of $2 trillion, followed by India with 169 billionaires with assets of $675 billion. 26 names from Turkey on the list There were also 26 names from Turkey on the Billionaires List this year. Erdemoğlu Holding Chairman İbrahim Erdemoğlu became the richest person in Turkey with a fortune of $5.3 billion, and the 497th richest person in the world. The total wealth of Turkish billionaires was calculated as approximately $57.8 billion. The number of those on the Billionaires List published by Forbes in 2021 broke a record by rising to 2,755, and despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the total wealth of billionaires increased by $5 trillion, reaching $13.1 trillion.