Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Changpeng Zhao top the list of loser billionaires - since the beginning of the year, the richest people on Earth have lost $ 1,400,000,000,000

Since the beginning of 2022, the richest people on the planet have become poorer by $1.4 trillion. The list was topped by the founder of the company Binance Chapneng Zhao, whose wealth has more than halved.

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The head of the cryptocurrency exchange has already lost about $ 85.6 billion. Now his fortune Forbes  estimates at about $ 66 billion. In the list of the richest people on Earth, a Chinese businessman ranks 19th.

Next is the American Elon Musk, who with $219 billion is the richest man in the world. True, if he had not lost anything in almost six months, he would now be about $ 73 billion richer.

The top three billionaire losers closes the former CEO Amazon Jeff Bezos. His fortune has decreased by more than $65 billion since the beginning of 2022.

The top 5 also includes Mark Zuckerberg (-$64.4 billion) and Bernard Arnault (-$56.8 billion). Thus, only five people lost about $345 billion in less than six months. Note that the total wealth of the world's richest people decreased by $1.4 trillion, of which $206 billion was lost on June 13.

Source: Bloomberg