Adani Group Gautam Adani added the most wealth over the last one year at $49 billion, according to M3M Hurun Global Rich List.
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‘The 2022 M3M Hurun Global Rich List’, said that Ambani occupied the ninth rank globally with a net worth of $103 billion.With 215 billionaires resident in India and 58 new additions, the country continues to be the third largest billionaire producing nation in the world, said the Hurun statement. The number rises to 249 if Indian origin billionaires are added, it said.
The world saw a record number of 153 new billionaires join the rich list this year, making the total to 3,381.
Over the last 10 years, Indian billionaires in the 2022 M3M Hurun global rich list added around $700 billion to their cumulative wealth—which is equivalent to Switzerland’s GDP and twice the GDP of the UAE, the report said.
With a wealth of $16 billion, Kotak Mahindra Bank CEO Uday Kotak secured the ‘World’s Third Richest Banker’ title.Vaccine King Cyrus Poonawalla Is World’s Richest Healthcare Billionaire.
India also has the richest aviation billionaires in the world. Rakesh Gangwal and Rahul Bhatia of IndiGo Airlines are the wealthiest aviation billionaires with net worth of $4.3 billion and $4.2 billion.
Mumbai is home to 72 billionaires, followed by New Delhi (51) and Bengaluru (28), it added.