O ranking de pessoas mais ricas do mundo listado pela Forbes encolheu em 2023: foram contabilizados 2.640 super ricos no mundo, contra 2.668 do ano anterior. Somada, a fortuna desses ricaços caiu de US$ 12,7 trilhões para US$ 12,2 trilhão.
A queda atingiu também o Brasil. Em 2022, havia 62 nomes representando o país. Neste ano, são apenas 51. Entre os super ricos brasileiros, a melhor colocação ficou com Vicky Safra e sua família, herdeiros de Joseph Safra, fundador do Banco Safra. A família aparece na 100ª posição do ranking geral, com uma fortuna avaliada em US$ 16,7 bilhões.
A liderança do ranking global ficou com Bernard Arnault e sua família. O empresário e investidor construiu sua fortuna após fundar a LVMH, holding multinacional fabricante de artigos de luxo, responsável por marcas como Tiffany & Co., Christian Dior, Givenchy, Marc Jacobs, Sephora e Bulgari.
Bilionários da Forbes
Veja os 100 primeiros colocados na lista global da Forbes:
| Posição | Nome | Fortuna (US$ bi) |
Fonte da riqueza |
| 1 | Bernard Arnault & family | $211B | LVMH |
| 2 | Elon Musk | $180 B | Tesla, SpaceX |
| 3 | Jeff Bezos | $114 B | Amazon |
| 4 | Larry Ellison | $107 B | Oracle |
| 5 | Warren Buffett | $106 B | Berkshire Hathaway |
| 6 | Bill Gates | $104 B | Microsoft |
| 7 | Michael Bloomberg | $94.5 B | Bloomberg LP |
| 8 | Carlos Slim Helu & family | $93 B | Telecom |
| 9 | Mukesh Ambani | $83.4 B | Diversified |
| 10 | Steve Ballmer | $80.7 B | Microsoft |
| 11 | Francoise Bettencourt Meyers & family | $80.5 B | L’Oréal |
| 12 | Larry Page | $79.2 B | |
| 13 | Amancio Ortega | $77.3 B | Zara |
| 14 | Sergey Brin | $76 B | |
| 15 | Zhong Shanshan | $68 B | Beverages, pharmaceuticals |
| 16 | Mark Zuckerberg | $64.4 B | |
| 17 | Carlos Koch | $59 B | Koch Industries |
| 18 | Julia Koch & family | $59 B | Koch Industries |
| 19 | Jim Walton | $58.8 B | Walmart |
| 20 | Rob Walton | $57.6 B | Walmart |
| 21 | Alice Walton | $56.7 B | Walmart |
| 22 | David Thomson & family | $54.4 B | Media |
| 23 | Michael Dell | $50.1 B | Dell Technologies |
| 24 | Gautam Adani | $47.2 B | Infrastructure, commodities |
| 25 | Phil Knight & family | $45.1 B | Nike |
| 26 | Zhang Yiming | $45 B | TikTok |
| 27 | Dieter Schwarz | $42.9 B | Retail |
| 28 | François Pinault & family | $40.1 B | Luxury goods |
| 29 | Klaus-Michael Kuehne | $39.1 B | Shipping |
| 30 | Giovanni Ferrero | $38.9 B | Nutella, chocolates |
| 31 | Jacqueline Mars | $38.3 B | Candy, pet food |
| 32 | John Mars | $38.3 B | Candy, pet food |
| 33 | Li Ka-shing | $38 B | Diversified |
| 34 | Ma Huateng | $35.3 B | Internet media |
| 35 | Miriam Adelson & family | $35 B | Casinos |
| 36 | Ken Griffin | $35 B | Hedge funds |
| 37 | Mark Mateschitz | $34.7 B | Red Bull |
| 38 | Robin Zeng | $33.4 B | Batteries |
| 39 | Tadashi Yanai & family | $32.6 B | Fashion retail |
| 40 | Len Blavatnik | $32.1 B | Music, chemicals |
| 41 | Alain Wertheimer | $31.6 B | Chanel |
| 42 | Gerard Wertheimer | $31.6 B | Chanel |
| 43 | Gianluigi Aponte | $31.2 B | Shipping |
| 44 | Rafaela Aponte-Diamant | $31.2 B | Shipping |
| 45 | Colin Zheng Huang | $30.2 B | E-commerce |
| 46 | Reinhold Wuerth & family | $29.7 B | Fasteners |
| 47 | Lee Shau Kee | $29.5 B | Real estate |
| 48 | Jeff Yass | $28.5 B | Trading, investments |
| 49 | Jim Simons | $28.1 B | Hedge funds |
| 50 | Stephen Schwarzman | $27.8 B | Investments |
| 51 | Susanne Klatten | $27.4 B | BMW, pharmaceuticals |
| 52 | Gina Rinehart | $27 B | Mining |
| 53 | William Lei Ding | $26.7 B | Online games |
| 54 | Germán Larrea Mota Velasco & family | $26.6 B | Mining |
| 55 | Shiv Nadar | $25.6 B | Software services |
| 56 | Low Tuck Kwong | $25.5 B | Coal |
| 57 | Thomas Peterffy | $25.3 B | Discount brokerage |
| 58 | Andrey Melnichenko & family | $25.2 B | Fertilizers, coal |
| 59 | Stefan Quandt | $24.6 B | BMW |
| 60 | MacKenzie Scott | $24.4 B | Amazon |
| 61 | R. Budi Hartono | $24.2 B | Banking, tobacco |
| 62 | Vladimir Potanin | $23.7 B | Metals |
| 63 | Jack Ma | $23.5 B | E-commerce |
| 64 | He Xiangjian & family | $23.4 B | Home appliances |
| 65 | Iris Fontbona & family | $23.1 B | Mining |
| 66 | Michael Hartono | $23.1 B | Banking, tobacco |
| 67 | James Ratcliffe | $22.9 B | Chemicals |
| 68 | Cyrus Poonawalla | $22.6 B | Vaccines |
| 69 | Masayoshi Son | $22.4 B | Internet, telecom |
| 70 | Vladimir Lisin | $22.1 B | Steel, transport |
| 71 | Emmanuel Besnier | $22 B | Cheese |
| 72 | Abigail Johnson | $21.6 B | Fidelity |
| 73 | Leonid Mikhelson & family | $21.6 B | Gas, chemicals |
| 74 | Lukas Walton | $21.2 B | Walmart |
| 75 | Wang Wei | $21.2 B | Package delivery |
| 76 | Jensen Huang | $21.1 B | Semiconductors |
| 77 | Leonard Lauder | $21 B | Estee Lauder |
| 78 | Takemitsu Takizaki | $21 B | Sensors |
| 79 | Alexey Mordashov & family | $20.9 B | Steel, investments |
| 80 | Vagit Alekperov | $20.5 B | Oil |
| 81 | Thomas Frist, Jr. & family | $20.2 B | Hospitals |
| 82 | Andrew Forrest | $19.6 B | Mining |
| 83 | Ray Dalio | $19.1 B | Hedge funds |
| 84 | Li Shufu | $19 B | Automobiles |
| 85 | Wang Wenyin | $19 B | Mining, copper products |
| 86 | Eyal Ofer | $18.9 B | Real estate, shipping |
| 87 | Qin Yinglin | $18.9 B | Pig breeding |
| 88 | Wang Chuanfu | $18.7 B | Batteries, automobiles |
| 89 | Harold Hamm & family | $18.5 B | Oil & gas |
| 90 | David Tepper | $18.5 B | Hedge funds |
| 91 | Gennady Timchenko | $18.5 B | Oil, gas |
| 92 | Daniel Gilbert | $18 B | Quicken Loans |
| 93 | Lakshmi Mittal | $17.7 B | Steel |
| 94 | Steve Cohen | $17.5 B | Hedge funds |
| 95 | Carl Icahn | $17.5 B | Investments |
| 96 | Savitri Jindal & family | $17.5 B | Steel |
| 97 | Donald Bren | $17.4 B | Real estate |
| 98 | John Menard, Jr. | $17.4 B | Home improvement stores |
| 99 | Rupert Murdoch & family | $17.1 B | Newspapers, TV network |
| 100 | Vicky Safra & family | $16.7 B | Banco Safra |
