India added 1 billionaire every week in pandemic-hit 2020

India retained the third spot on the list of countries with a maximum number of billionaires. The country’s elite billion dollar club saw the addition of 55 new entrepreneurs in 2020 despite the Covid-19 pandemic.

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India is now home to 177 resident dollar billionaires while overall Indians with a net worth exceeding 1 billion dollars is 209, according to Hurun Global Rich List 2021.

Tesla’s Elon Musk added $151 billion to become the richest man in the world for the first time with a net worth of $197 billion, followed by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos ($189 billion).

Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani, who emerged as the richest man in India with a net worth of $83 billion, came in at number eight.

India retained the third spot in the number of billionaires from a country with a total of 177 billionaires living in the country.

In the list of Indian billionaires, Mr. Ambani was followed by Adani Group’s Gautam Adani and family with his wealth almost doubling to $32 billion.