EBN- The recently published list of the names of the richest people in the world for the year 2024 counted an unprecedented number of billionaires around the world.
The list included 2,781 billionaires around the world, an increase of 141 more than it was last year, and their combined wealth reaches 14.2 trillion dollars, an increase of two trillion dollars over 2023.
However, there are 14 billionaires among them who own nearly two trillion dollars, which means that only 0.5% of the world’s 2,781 billionaires own 14% of the total billionaire wealth. These are the members of the 100-billionaire club, meaning those who own 100 billion or more, and they are the elite on the list of the world’s richest people whose wealth extends to 12 figures.
The 14 richest people in the world
Here is a list of the 14 richest billionaires in the world, along with the country they belong to, according to the American Forbes list, on Monday evening, April 29:
Bernard Arnault and family $210.1 billion.
Elon Musk $207 billion.
Jeff Bezos $197.9 billion.
Mark Zuckerberg $151.1 billion.
Larry Ellison $145.8 billion.
Larry Page $138.7 billion.
Sergey Brin $133 billion.
Warren Buffett $132.9 billion.
Bill Gates $128.5 billion.
Steve Ballmer $119.8 billion.
Mukesh Ambani $116 billion.
Amancio Ortega $107.1 billion.
Michael Bloomberg $106.2 billion.
Carlos Slim and family $100.2 billion.
American control
We notice in this list that most of these billionaires belong to the United States, which now includes a record number of 813 billionaires with a combined wealth of $5.7 trillion.
It is also noteworthy that there are no Chinese billionaires on this list, however China comes in second place in terms of the number of billionaires, with 473 billionaires with a fortune of $1.7 trillion.
India came third with 200 billionaires in 2024, Forbes reported.
Facts and more than 40% face acute levels of hunger.
Up to 309 million people face acute levels of food insecurity in 2024 in the 72 countries where WFP operates.
2.3 billion people (29.6% of the world’s population) do not have enough food.
Nearly 282 million people in 59 countries and territories experienced high levels of acute hunger in 2023, an increase of 24 million people from the previous year.
9 million people die each year from hunger-related causes, many of them children under the age of five.
More than 36 million children under the age of five suffer from acute malnutrition in 32 countries.
149 million children under the age of five are stunted.
In 2022, the number of people facing acute hunger increased by 25% in just 3 months, due to the war in Ukraine.
The United Nations predicts that we will fall far short of humanity’s goal of eliminating hunger by 2030.
By the end of this decade, it is estimated that 670 million people will still face hunger.
