Hurun Research’s 2024 Global Rich List

• The Hurun Research Institute has released the “Hurun Global Rich List 2024”.
• Among global billionaires, Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, has re-emerged as the richest man, boasting a fortune of $231 billion.
• The 2024 Hurun Global Rich List is the 13th edition of the ranking of billionaires. Wealth calculations in the report are a snapshot of 15th January 2024.
• The 2024 list features a total of 3279 billionaires which includes 167 new billionaires. The number of billionaires globally increased by 5% compared to 2023.

TOP 5 BILLIONAIRES ON THE 2024 LIST:

Rank	Name	Total Net Worth (USD billion)
1	Elon Musk	231
2	Jeff Bezos	185
3	Bernard Arnault	175
4	Mark Zuckerberg	158
5	Warren Buffett	144
6	Larry Ellison	144
7	Steve Ballmer	143
8	Bill Gates	138
9	Larry Page	123
10	Mukesh Ambani	115

 

TOP 3 COUNTRIES WITH THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF BILLIONAIRES:

Rank	Country	Number of Billionaires
1	China	814
2	The United States of America (USA)	800
3	India	217

TOP 5 CITIES WITH HIGHEST NUMBER OF BILLIONAIRES:

Rank	Cities	Number of billionaires
1	New York (USA)	119
2	London (the United Kingdom)	97
3	Mumbai (India)	92
4	Beijing (China)	91
5	Shanghai (China)	87

KEY HIGHLIGHTS: INDIAN BILLIONAIRES:

• Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest man, is the only Indian featured on the top 10 of the list.
• Gautam Adani, Chairperson of Adani Group, is ranked 15th with a total net worth of USD 86 billion.
• The cumulative wealth of Indian billionaires’ amounts to USD 1 trillion, which accounts to 7% of the global billionaire wealth.
• India’s addition of 94 new billionaires in a single year consolidates India’s position as the 2nd largest contributor to the world billionaire list.
• Industries that contributed India’s growth are, Pharmaceutical sector (39 billionaire) followed by Automobile and Auto components industry (27 billionaire) and Chemical sector (24 billionaire).