A total of 236 people became billionaires over the past year, here are the newcomers to the 2022 ForbesBillionaires list
t was a down year for billionaires. There are 87 fewer of them, and they’re worth $400 billion less than a year ago, according to’ annual World’s Billionaires list. Still–amid war, pandemic and sluggish markets–a total of 236 people became billionaires over the past year.
These newcomers hail from 34 different countries. Despite a tech crackdown by its government, China produced 62 new billionaires , the most of any country. That includes 52-year-old, the mysterious founder of Gen Z fast fashion favorite Shein, and 54-year-old engineering professor, whose A.I. firm SenseTime derives about half its revenue from the Chinese Communist Party .
, left investment banking a decade ago at the age of 49 to launch beauty and fashion retailer Nykaa, taking it public in November. Only 33 of the 236 newcomers to this year’s billionaires list are women, and just 11 of them are self-made.inherited a fortune estimated at $16.6 billion alongside her four children after her husband Petr Kellner, an investor and Czechia’s richest person, died in a March 2021 helicopter crash. She’s the richest new billionaire in the world this year.
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