Everything you need to know about the world’s top 500 billionaires

New York, US | THE INDEPENDENT | The Bloomberg Billionaire Index is a daily ranking of the world’s richest people. The index tracks the net worth of the 500 wealthiest people on the planet. In a world with booming entrepreneurship stories, success is often measured by the value one has in terms of money.

“We’ve taken the 25 wealthiest people from the Bloomberg Billionaire Index list to provide a more transparent and accountable representation of the world’s biggest personal fortunes, by pairing them into demographic categories: gender, location, industry and source of wealth.

From tech moguls and retail giants to heirs and heiresses, here are the billionaires with the deepest pockets around the globe,” said officials of Bloomberg Billionaire Index.