The world's wealthiest wealth has grown by $ 1 trillion in 2017, which is 4 times more than in 2016, thanks to record levels in equity markets.
The world's wealthiest wealth has grown by $ 1 trillion in 2017, which is 4 times more than in 2016, thanks to record levels in equity markets.
The Bloomberg index of billionaires, which measures the wealth of the world's 500 richest people, rose 23 percent this year. The wealthiest rich to their wealth in 2017 added about $ 2.7 billion on a daily basis.
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos added $ 34.2 billion to his wealth and was considered the most profitable of the year, surpassing Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and the world's richest man.
A graph showing the development of wealth of the world's 500 richest people in 2017
By the end of November, Amazon had surpassed $ 100 billion, but it fell to $ 98.4 billion, according to Forbes magazine.
Gates came second with a $ 89.4 billion fortune, while Warren Buffett, the US investor, came in third with a fortune of $ 81.7 billion.
By the end of Tuesday, the total wealth of the world's 500 richest people was $ 5.3 trillion, up from $ 4.4 trillion on Dec. 27, 2016.