As of 2021, there are reportedly 2,755 billionaires on Earth,  with an estimated total net worth of $13.1 trillion of this amount. The top 10 wealthiest people in the world account for $1,153 billion, or roughly 8.8%, which is impressive when you consider that they represent around 0.36% of billionaires below are the two individuals currently considered the wealthiest at the time of updating this article July 2021 according to.

THE Forbes World's Billionaires List.

● Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon, the world's largest retailer, and blue origin, with an estimated net worth of $177 billion. He is the wealthiest man.

●Elon Musk is the CEO and co-founder of Tesla; CEO and founder of Neuralink company. His estimated net worth is $151 billion.

1 • Jeff Bezos

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Age: 57

• Residence: Seattle 

•Founder and Executive Chair: Amazon (AMZN)

•Net worth: $177 billion

Amazon Ownership Stake: 11% ($174 billion)

• Other Assets: Blue origin ($7.15 billion private assets), The Washington Post ($250 million personal assets), and $9.75 billion in cash in 1994. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in a garage in Seattle. Shortly after, he resigned from the hedge fund giant D.E. Shaw. He had initially been pitched an online book store to his former David E. Shaw, who wasn't interested. Though Amazon.com originally started out selling books, it has since morphed into a one-stop-shop for everything under the sun and is arguably the world's largest retailer. At any rate, it is hard to dispute its self-description as the "Earth's most customer-centric company." Its pattern of constant diversification is evident in some of its unexpected expansion, which includes acquiring Whole Foods in 2017 and launching its brand over the counter drugs in

August 2017 in 2020, Amazon's share price skyrocketed on the heightened demand for online shopping as lockdown forced consumers to stay home. On July 5, 2021, Bezos stepped down as CEO of the e-commerce giant and transitioned to his new role as its executive chair. Bezos initially took Amazon public in 1997 and became the first man since Bill Gates in 1999 to achieve a net worth of more than $100 billion. Bezos's other projects include aerospace companies. Blue Origin, The Washington post which he purchased in 2013, and the 10,000 years clock, also known as the Long Now On July 20, 2021, Bezos, his brother Mark aviation pioneer Wally Funk and Dutch student Oliver Daemen completed blue Origin's first successful crewed flight reaching an altitude of just above 62 miles before landing safely.

2. Elon musk

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●Age: 50

●Residence: Austin, Texas

● Co-founder and CEO: Tesla (TSLA)

●Net Worth: $151 billion 

● Tesla Ownership stake: 20% ($114 billion)

●Other Assets: Space Exploration Technology ($29.8 billion private assets) and The Boring Company ($101 million personal assets) Elon Musk has had his hands in several different companies over the years. Initially enrolled at Stanford University, Musk deferred his attendance to launch Zip2, one of the earliest proceeds from this endeavor, which was then reinforced to create X.com. This online payment system later became PayPal. While both of these systems were eventually sold to other companies, Musk has maintained his status as CEO. and lead designer of his third project, space Exploration Technology (SpaceX), which aims to make space exploration more affordable. In 2004 Musk became a major funder of Tesla Motors (now Tesla), which led to him being retrofittively

Declared a cofounder and his current position as CEO of the electric vehicles company, in addition to its line electric automobiles which include sedans, sport utility vehicles (SUVs), and the ("Cybertruck") accessories, merchandise and through its acquisition of SolarCity in 2016 solar power systems. In 2020 Tesla's stock price experienced an astronomical surge, rising 705% from the start of the year to mid-December. It joined the S&P 500 that same month, the largest company added this far. In 2016 Musk founded two more companies, Neurolink, and The Boring Company, serving as the former CEO. Neurolink is developing brain-machine interface devices to help individuals with paralysis and potentially allow users to interact with their computers and mobile devices mentally. Meanwhile, the Boring Company, meanwhile l, develop boring machines for drilling tunnels for underground public transportation systems, which would mitigate traffic congestion in major cities. It also (briefly) sold a handheld flamethrower.