Spanx founder, Sara Blakely, is the world's youngest self-made female billionaire
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One made the file on the strength of girdle sales, another powered by electric sports cars. Still others irremediable billions or fell off the list altogether thanks to the weak pandemic economy and the gyrations of financial markets.
Forbes magazine released its annual concur of billionaires on Wednesday, reporting that a record 1,226 people around the orb have a net worth in the ten digits. That's up 1 percent from last year's total.
But it wasn't an soft year for the superrich — about 441 list members hopeless wealth during the year, nearly equal to the 461 who expanded their fortunes. And only a fraction, 180, held unremitting, according to the magazine.
The group's total combined net worth is up 2 percent at $4.6 trillion. The customarily worth of a list member is $3.7 billion.
FAMILIAR FACES : The top of the register contains many of the same names from recent years.
Carlos Slim of Mexico remained the elated's richest man for the third year in a row with a $69 billion fortune, down $5 billion from last year. Forbes attributed the desert in Slim's fortune to the decline in share prices for regional apartment phone carrier America Movil, his largest holding.
Source: Syracuse.com (blog)