Forbes magazine compiles the ranking of the richest people in the world, where we can find Bernard Arnault at the top, thanks to his luxury empire LVMH, owner of brands such as Christian Dior, Givenchy, Louis Vuitton, Moët & Chandon or Sephora . , among other. In addition, the 74-year-old French businessman has investments in dozens of companies such as Netflix, Airbnb, Spotify or ByteDance, reaching a total of $212.1 billion in assets.
In second position is Elon Musk, who is behind companies such as Tesla or SpaceX, whose fortune reaches 194.6 billion dollars, while the podium is completed by another billionaire focused on the technological field, such as Jeff Bezos, founder of the e-commerce giant Amazon.
Completing the Top 10 richest people in the world are Mark Zuckerberg ($161.8 billion), Larry Ellison ($144 billion), Warren Buffett ($128.7 billion), Bill Gates ($123.1 billion), Larry Page. ($120.3 billion), Steve Ballmer ($119.2 billion) and Sergey Brin ($115.4 billion).
Among the top ten people in the world we only find men, but there are also other women who have managed to amass a great fortune (99.5 billion dollars), as is the case of Françoise B. Meyers, a French businesswoman and writer whose family owns . from the L’Oréal brand. Behind her are Alice Walton ($64.8 billion) and Julia Koch ($60.1 billion).
The richest in Spain
If we focus on Spain, Amancio Ortega Gaona, Rafael Del Pino and Juan Roig Alfonso are the richest people in Spain. The first, the majority shareholder of Inditex, continues to maintain leadership in the ranking after increasing its wealth by 53% in 2023 over the previous year, thus reaching a total of 93,930 million euros of assets, which is equivalent to double that of Inditex. The rest of the fortunes that are part of the Top-10.
Behind him we find Rafael del Pino, president of Ferrovial and the group’s main individual shareholder through his holding company Rijn Capital, which controls 20.4%, and which allows it to reach assets of 12,275 million euros. Completing the podium is the executive president and largest shareholder of Mercadona, Juan Roig, who is also the owner of Valencia Basket, a basketball club. In his case, his assets amount to 11,835 million euros.
In fourth place at the national level we find the first woman on the list, Sol Daurella Comadrán, president of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, which is in charge of manufacturing, bottling and distributing Coca-Cola in 28 countries, and who has achieved It brings together 7,860 million euros of assets. In this way, she is placed just ahead of Sandra Ortega Mera, first-born daughter of Amancio Ortega, who presides over Inditex and who occupies fifth place with a net worth of 7,705 million euros.
(3,910 million euros), owner of the company Corporación Financiera Alba.
Completing the Top-10 richest people in Spain we find Jordi Rubiralta Giralt and family (5,040 million euros), Francisco and Jon Riberas Mera (4,900 million euros) and Carmen and Luis Riu Güell (3,910 million euros).
