Adani's net worth grew the fastest in the world in the financial year 2021-2022

Winning Business Desk

Mumbai. After joining the $100 billion club, Gautam Adani, the founder and chairman of the Adani Group, has moved up to number 6 on Bloomberg's list of top-10 billionaires across the world. Adani is the only Indian in the top-10 list whose net worth shot up by $ 8.57 billion or about Rs 65,091 crore owing to the rise in the share prices of Adani Group on Monday. Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries, is at number 11. Only Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bernard Arnault, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are ahead of Adani.

Adani surpasses Google's founder

According to Bloomberg data, Gautam Adani's net worth is $ 118 billion (about 8.9 lakh crore rupees) while Mukesh Ambani's net worth is $ 97.4 billion (about 7.4 lakh crore rupees). Adani has overtaken Google's holding company Alphabet's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to reach the 6th position. The net worth of Larry Page is $ 116 billion (about Rs 8.8 lakh crore) and the net worth of Sergey Brin is $ 111 billion (about Rs 8.4 lakh crore).

Adani's net worth was $ 57 billion in April 2021

Adani had joined the centibillionaires club on April 4. Notably, individuals with a net worth of more than $100 billion are called centibillionaires. A year before i.e. in April 2021, Adani's net worth was $ 57 billion. The Adani Group has seven publicly listed companies with a combined market capitalization of over $200 billion. Adani is first in Asia and Mukesh Ambani is second in terms of net worth. Adani's net worth grew the fastest in the world in the financial year 2021-2022.

Elon Musk at number one in the list

Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk has topped the list with a net worth of $249 billion, Bezos is second with $176 billion, France's Bernard Arnault with $139 billion, Bill Gates With a net worth of $130 billion, Warren Buffett is at the fourth position with a net worth of $127 billion.