• The 10th Edition of Hurun Global Rich List 2021 was released on March 02, 2021, which ranked 3228 billionaires from 2,402 companies and 68 countries.

Top three billionaires :

• Tesla chief Elon Musk bagged the top spot on the Hurun Global Rich List for the first time after adding a massive $151 billion during the year 2020 to take his net worth to $197 billion.
• Amazon.com Inc CEO Jeff Bezos ranked second with $189 billion in net worth.
• Bernard Arnault, the chief executive of LVMH Moët Hennessy – Louis Vuitton SE, the world’s largest luxury-goods company ranked third with net worth of $114 billion.
   
• Asia’s richest person and Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani is ranked eighth on the Hurun Global Rich List 2021. The total wealth of Ambani surged by 24% to $83 billion (approximately Rs 6.09 lakh crore).
• The report showed that despite COVID-19 pandemic, the world added 8 billionaires every week in 2020 and 421 in a year, taking their total number to a record 3,288.
• The total wealth of all billionaires across the globe surged 32 percent, an addition of $3.5 trillion, to  take their total wealth to $14.7 trillion, during the period under review.
• The wealth calculations taken into account is as of January 15, 2021.