Indian billionaire Gautam Adani is now at the fourth place in the Forbes list of the world’s richest people. With this advantage, he has overtaken Microsoft’s co-founder Bill Gates. According to Forbes’ real-time ranking of billionaires, Bill Gates has an estimated net worth of $102 billion and Gautam Adani & Family has a net worth of over $114 billion.
Let us tell you that Bill Gates donated $ 20 billion from his assets to the Gates Foundation last week. After this donation, the ranking of Bill Gates fell and he has come from fourth place to fifth in the list of world’s richest people. Gautam Adani benefited from the donation of Gates and he reached fourth place.
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Adani’s net worth doubled in a year
Significantly, the wealth of the Indian businessman has more than doubled as compared to the beginning of 2021. Now this wealth has increased to $ 112.9 billion. Gautam Adani’s business is spread to Basic Infra, Electricity, Green Energy, Gas, Ports. Gautam Adani wants to be the world’s largest producer of green energy and is going to invest up to $70 billion on renewable energy projects.
With this, Gautam Adani is now also the richest person in India, with an estimated net worth of $ 115.6 billion.
Adani-Ambani gap widens
It is worth noting that Mukesh Ambani, who has been Asia’s richest person with India for a long time, is continuously lagging behind in this race. According to the Forbes Billionaire Index, this gap between Ambani-Adani has increased to more than $ 26 billion. Ambani has a net worth of $87 billion.