The 20 richest tech billionaires in the world: Forbes 2022 list

We don’t have to pull out the violin for the world’s richest billionaires, but let’s just know that they suffered a bit overall in the last year.

According to Forbes magazine’s recently released 2022 World’s Billionaires List, there were 2,668 billionaires worldwide as of the beginning of this year, down 87 from the previous year.

Meanwhile, according to the Forbes list, the total wealth of billionaires worldwide was $12.7 trillion as of early April, down $400 million from the previous year.

Based on Forbes data from early April, the reasons cited for the decline include economic turmoil from the pandemic and its aftermath, high global inflation, and disruption from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Among some interesting facts about the 2022 Forbes Global Billionaires List, there are 34 fewer Russian billionaires and 87 fewer Chinese billionaires on this year’s list.

America once again has the most billionaires in the world, with 735 on this year’s list, and the richest people in the world are again Americans. But it’s not his Jeff Bezos at Amazon who’s been on top for the past four years. Instead, his Elon Musk of Telsa and Space X fame topped his 2022 Forbes list with a net worth of $219 billion.

For the tech and telecoms person on the list, they once again dominate, with eight of the top 20 spots having something to do with technology and telecoms.

The 2022 list has 236 newbies, including Cliff Obrecht, co-founder of design software maker Canva, and Melainie Perkins, also co-founder of Canva.

Here are the top 20 tech and telecoms figures on Forbes World’s Billionaires list this year (richest to oldest).

The 20 richest tech billionaires in 2022:

20. Scott Farquhar

20. Pavel Durov

19. Mike Cannon-Brooks

18. Lauren Powell Jobs

17. Jensen Huang

16. Mayosison

15. Eric Schmidt

14. Jack Ma

13. William Ding

12. Shiv Nadar

11. Makatei

10. Mackenzie Scott

9. Mark Zuckerberg

8. Michael Dell

7. Carlos Slim Hell

6. Steve Ballmer

5. Larry Ellison

4. Sergey Brin

3. Larry Page

2. Bill Gates

1. Jeff Bezos