NEW: Elon Musk topped the Forbes World's Billionaires List for the first time, with an estimated net worth of $219 billion.
the list this year — the most in one year since the 2009 financial crisis, Forbes said.
"The tumultuous stock market contributed to sharp declines in the fortunes of many of the world’s richest," Kerry Dolan, Forbes' assistant managing editor of wealth, said in a release. "Still, more than 1,000 billionaires got wealthier over the past year."He unseated, who drops to No. 2 after spending the past four years as the richest person in the world.
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