Elon Musk has grown the most assets this year.
Country’s Billionaires Gained Highest Wealth in 2020: Lockdowns were imposed in many countries around the world due to the Corona epidemic, which severely affected business. Apart from this, GDP growth has gone negative in many countries including India. Despite all this, there has been a tremendous increase of Rs 840 lakh crore in the wealth of the rich around the world. This year, the wealth of more than 2200 billionaires worldwide increased to 139.73 lakh crore rupees ($ 1.9 trillion). Talking about India, it ranked fourth in terms of increase in wealth of billionaires and the wealth of billionaires here increased to 5.5 lakh crore ($ 7500 million) this year. This year, China’s billionaires have increased the most wealth.
20 percent increase in wealth in a year
According to Forbes, on 11 December last week, the net worth of billionaires around the world was 838.14 lakh crore rupees ($ 11.4 trillion), which is 20 per cent higher as compared to 31 December 2019 last year. On the last day of last year, the net worth of more than 2200 billionaires around the world was 698.45 crore rupees ($ 9.5 trillion). This calculation is done on the basis of stock prices.
Chinese became the richest
In the last one year, China’s billionaires have increased the most wealth. His wealth rose 60 per cent (Rs 55.2 lakh crore) to reach 147.08 lakh crore ($ 2 trillion). Although the richest people are still in America. The net worth of American billionaires is 294.18 lakh crore rupees ($ 4 trillion). In this way, the wealth of American billionaires has increased by 41.2 lakh crore rupees (56 thousand crore dollars) in the last one year. The net worth of Chinese billionaires is still half that of the wealth of American billionaires.
India is at the fourth position in this list. The wealth of Indian billionaires has increased by 5.5 lakh crores (7500 billion dollars) in the last one year to 35.3 lakh crores (48 thousand crores dollars). His wealth increased by 19 percent. A table is given below, in which you can see how much wealth of billionaires has increased.
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This year was the best for Musk
Talking about the owner of Tesla, 2020 was the best for them. This year, his wealth increased by about 8 lakh crore rupees (11 thousand dollars) and after this increase, now his wealth increased to about 10 lakh crore rupees (13.7 thousand crore dollars). He is now the third richest man in the world. The main reason for his increase in wealth was the rise in shares of Tesla Motors by 630 per cent.
Fall in wealth of some countries rich
It is not that the wealth of billionaires around the world has increased this year. The wealth of about 50 billionaires of Brazil declined by 95.6 thousand crores ($ 1300 million). The net worth of about 30 billionaires of Thailand declined by 44.1 thousand crores ($ 600 million).
Source: www.financialexpress.com