Richest People in the World 1986-2023

This data visualization video shows the wealthiest billionaires from 1986 to 2023. I include their primary investment on the left and secondary investments or notes to the right of that. The data comes from Forbes' yearly billionaire list. This is updated often, so the last numbers have already changed since they're from last week. The race was originally too chaotic, with bars crisscrossing each other non-stop, so I had to smooth out the numbers.

[zakir]

Bezos and Zuckerberg: make way, excuse me, coming through
Bezos: wait where'd you go

[ale]

This is great! Thank you for the new upload

[thiagooliveira]

WallMart is so big that was divided in a thousand pieces and each piece is still one of the richest of the world

[trfon]

Love your channel!! not sure if anyone else requested; can you find information on wealth before 1986? like Rockefeller etc? maybe estimates only? adjusted for inflation? tall order but no matter what you rock!

[dfg]

So the richest people got 10x as rich in 30 years while most people struggle to pay the rent. Good times.

[bn]

Great work! It would be interesting to analyse the dataset, is it possible to share the website to get this data(CSV) please. Thanks.

[e-izdfr]

I really like the music that is in your videos. I don't know if anyone has told you this before.

[FrozenBusChannel]

Li Ka-shing mainly depended on real estate also (as are most rich people in HK after 1980...)

[MrMk]

Its impressive Sweden had 3 entries in that list with a population of less than 10 million ppl. 👏🏻

[michabajerski]

Great to see how things have changed over time!

[dylanmajor]

Talk about how close the bar race was, one of the tightest bar races so far for sure!

[davidescobar]

97 percent of these people were born into wealthy families.
Some upper middle class but most into multi millionaire families.

[joshuasteele]

Imagine if all that WalMart wealth was still centralized under one name rather than split out 5-6 ways after Sam passed….

[Aracadara]

Even though the rise of Elon Musk is impressive, one should not forget that a big chunk of his insane wealth growth came from the short squeeze of Tesla stock.

[Datarace-world]

Nice video, I will post an update video on my channel this week.

[OrangeeUK]

this is genius, , , 👏. I like the ending screen 'Are you next?' , yeah I'll be on that list one day, when I make a billion I'm gonna make a positive difference in the world helping those in need.

[rushfire]

How were the assets determined? According to the share value or according to the company's equity?

[Rookietookie]

They all are nothing before Richie rich. He's the richest man ever existed.

[NeverStopRolling]

Those are numbers so large that no human should ever need to even comprehend them, let alone be worth that much money. I mean what even is anyway? What does it look like? How many meals would that buy? How many hospitals? How many years could a single person theoretically survive on that much worth of food, or energy, or healthcare, enough to live a million years?

[georgemallory]

This is cool. I met Larry Ellison in Scottsdale in 2000 when he was flying one of his own private jets (I think it was a Cessna Citation Bravo or thereabouts-he owned 3 or 4) with one of his top pilots giving him instruction from the right (copilot) seat. Instead of a catering order, he asked to have me run and get him some Taco Bell. I kid you not. Nice guy. He was really easy to talk to. I met quite a few famous people in that line of work and he stands out as one of the most memorable.