World's Richest People | 2000 - 2021 🤑💰📊

Watch as this data visualization and bar chart race ranks the the world's wealthiest people from 2000 to 2021, categorized by the following regions: Asia, North America, South America, MENA (Middle East and North Africa), Africa, Oceania, and Europe. The bottom graph tracks total wealth by reagion for the top 500 billionaires over the same time period.

For the years 2000 to 2020, Forbes Billionaire List was used; 2021 data uses Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Chapters:
00:00 Bill Gates (Microsoft) teenage years
00:23 Warren Buffett disowns grand-daughter
00:42 Larry Ellison (Oracle) owns a Hawaiian island
01:00 Theo Albrecht (Aldi) kidnapping
01:17 Liliane Bettencourt of Loreal
01:45 Ingvar Kamprad of IKEA
02:03 Bernard Arnault of Louis Vuitton
02:22 Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google
02:40 Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook
02:58 Elon Musk of Tesla

2021 Top 15 World Billionaires:
1/ Jeff Bezos, Amazon
2/ Bernard Arnault, Louis Vuitton
3/ Elon Musk, Tesla
4/ Bill Gates, Microsoft founder
5/ Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook
6/ Larry Page, Google
7/ Warren Buffet, Berkshire Hathaway
8/ Sergey Brin, Google
9/ Larry Ellison, Oracle
10/ Steve Ballmer, Microsoft
11/ Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, Loreal
12/ Mukesh Ambani, Reliance Industries
13/ Amancio Ortega, Zara clothing
14/ Gautam Adani, Adani Group
15/ Zhong Shanshan, Nongfu Spring

METHODOLOGY
The Forbes World’s Billionaires list is a snapshot of wealth using stock prices and exchange rates from March 5, 2021. Some people become richer or poorer within days of publication. They list individuals rather than multigenerational families who share fortunes, though they include wealth belonging to a billionaire’s spouse and children if that person is the founder of the fortune. In some cases they list siblings or couples together if the ownership breakdown among them isn’t clear, but here an estimated net worth of $1 billion per person is needed to make the cut. They value a variety of assets, including private companies, real estate, art and more. Thet don’t pretend to know each billionaire’s private balance sheet (though some provide it). When documentation isn’t supplied or available, they discount fortunes.

📊 Data:
Forbes Billionaires 2021 | https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/
Bloomberg | https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/
Statista | https://www.statista.com/
World Bank | https://www.worldbank.org/

📝 Research:
Encyclopedia Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/
https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-17-surprising-facts-2016-12
https://investinganswers.com/articles/10-warren-buffett-facts-you-wont-believe-are-true
https://techmonitor.ai/techonology/10-brilliant-facts-about-larry-ellison-4379575
https://www.businessofbusiness.com/articles/history-of-loreal-far-right-cosmetics/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jun/03/france.secondworldwar
https://graphics.stanford.edu/~dk/google_name_origin.html

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