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.
What is known
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
