Forbes magazine, which occupies the agenda with the news of dollar billionaires in the global arena, announced regularly every year, includes 2 thousand 871 people in the list of dollar billionaires for 2023. Among these billionaires, the number of female billionaires remained at 369. In this list of dollar billionaires, those who earned their wealth by themselves constitute 3.6 percent. The only person from Turkey to enter this list was Hümeyra Gökçen Keskin, the owner of Agrotech. Keskin managed to enter the list with his fortune with a market value of 1.1 billion dollars.
The list of dollar billionaires, which is regularly announced every year by the famous economy magazine and repeated for the 38th time this year, has 27 dollar billionaires from Turkey. Murat Ülker is at the top of the list with a fortune of $5 billion. This year’s published list of billionaires showed that the number of billionaires worldwide and their fortunes are increasing.
The number of billionaires increased by 141 compared to last year, reaching 2,781, thus breaking the record. The total wealth of billionaires increased by 2 trillion dollars to 14.2 trillion dollars. Bernard Arnault, CEO of luxury goods giant LVMH, topped the list as the richest person in the world for the second time, with a fortune of $233 billion. While Elon Musk ranked second on the list with a fortune of $195 billion, Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos came third with a fortune of $194 billion.
On the list of dollar billionaires, those who made their own fortunes only make up 3.6 percent. Only businesswoman Hümeyra Gökçen Keskin was on this list from Turkey. Keskin, who was on the list with a fortune of 1.1 billion, had her fortune fall below 1 billion dollars after the magazine was released. Keskin said that their goals were very big and that they aimed to continue to grow in different areas of the agriculture and food sector in the coming period. Hümeyra Keskin said, “We attach great importance to growth through exports and because it makes a positive contribution to our foreign trade deficit. As Agrotech, we see agriculture as a matter of national security and aim to support our producers at every stage of agricultural production in the coming years.” – ISTANBUL
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2024-06-29 12:05:24