According to Forbes magazine’s recently released 2022 World’s Billionaires List, there were 2,668 billionaires around the world as of earlier this year, down 87 from the year before. Among some of the interesting facts about the 2022 Forbes World’s Billionaires List, there were 34 fewer Russian billionaires and 87 fewer Chinese billionaires on this year’s listAmerica once again has the most billionaires in the world, or 735 on this year’s list, and once again the richest man in the world is an American. Instead, Elon Musk, of Telsa and Space X fame, topped the 2022 Forbes list with a net worth of $219 billion. There are 236 newbies on the 2022 list, 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 telecom people on this year’s Forbes World’s Billionaires list (in order of least to most wealthy).

Source: Forbes May 13, 2022 13:41 UTC