{"id":107613,"date":"2015-12-17T19:30:20","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T17:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=107613"},"modified":"2015-12-17T17:00:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T15:00:29","slug":"the-richest-person-in-the-world-today-from-each-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wealth\/107613\/the-richest-person-in-the-world-today-from-each-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"The richest person in the world today from each generation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Using data from Wealth-X and Bloomberg, Bankrate has charted the richest person in each age group – from a 20-something billionaire, to an aged stalwart in her 90s.<\/p>\n

According to to the data, Snapchat’s Evan Spiegel, at the tender age of 25, is the richest man in his age group, with a net worth of $2 billion.<\/p>\n

Principal shareholder of L’Oreal, Liliane Bettencourt, is not only the oldest billionaire at 93 years, but also the world’s richest woman in the world, with a net worth of over $33 billion.<\/p>\n

\"Evan

Evan Spiegel (25)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Liliane

Liliane Bettencourt (93)<\/p><\/div>\n

At the age of 60, the world’s richest man, Bill Gates, stepped away from being the richest person in their 50s to being the richest person in their 60s.<\/p>\n

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, at age 51, is now the richest person in their 50s.<\/p>\n

Here’s the full table, courtesy of Bankrate.<\/p>\n

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Age group<\/th>\nName<\/th>\nAge<\/th>\nSource<\/th>\nWealth<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
20s<\/td>\nEvan Spiegel<\/td>\n25<\/td>\nSnapchat<\/td>\n$2 billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
30s<\/td>\nMark Zuckerberg<\/td>\n31<\/td>\nFacebook<\/td>\n$46 billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
40s<\/td>\nLarry Page<\/td>\n42<\/td>\nGoogle<\/td>\n$39 billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
50s<\/td>\nJeff Bezos<\/td>\n51<\/td>\nAmazon<\/td>\n$58 billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
60s<\/td>\nBill Gates<\/td>\n60<\/td>\nMicrosoft<\/td>\n$82 billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
70s<\/td>\nAmancio Ortega<\/td>\n79<\/td>\nInditex<\/td>\n$73 billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
80s<\/td>\nWarren Buffet<\/td>\n85<\/td>\nBerkshire Hathaway<\/td>\n$62 billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
90s<\/td>\nLiliane Bettencourt<\/td>\n93<\/td>\nL’Oreal<\/td>\n$33 billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Using data from Wealth-X and Bloomberg, Bankrate has charted the richest person in each age group – from a 20-something billionaire, to an aged stalwart in her 90s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":74328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9880],"tags":[26,7275],"class_list":["post-107613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wealth","tag-headline","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107621,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107613\/revisions\/107621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}