Forbes named the region in which billionaires were able to increase their wealth

Five billionaires from Asia - Gautam Adani, Low Tak Kwong, Colin Huang, Wu Yiling and Ravi Jaipuria - were able to increase their wealth in the conditionswhen most of the world's richest people's incomes were fallingGautam AdaniGautam AdaniGautam AdaniGautam AdaniGautam Adani

In 2022, five Asian businessmen, despite a general drop in the income of billionaires in the world, received a combined profit of more than $90 billion, writes FORBES.

According to the publication, these are entrepreneurs from India, CHINA and Indonesia.

60-year-old Gautam Adani from India, owner of the Adani Group. His fortune, according to Forbes in real time, is $116.8 billion, it increased by $55 billion in 2022. Among his assets are India's largest port, Mundra, Mumbai Airport, cement and clean energy companies. Low Tak Kwong, 74, from Indonesia, is the owner of Bayan Resources. His fortune is $25.2 billion, this year's growth is $16 billion. He is called the coal king of Indonesia, and Bayan Resources operates in this industry. But the businessman has interests in other areas, for example, his company Metis Energy works in the field of renewable energy sources. 42-year-old Colin Huang (Huang Zheng), China, founder of marketplace Pinduoduo. Net Worth - $ 29.6 billion, growth for the year - $ 11 billion. Pinduoduo trades in food and beverages, clothing, shoes, baby care products, appliances, furniture, household goods, cosmetics and other goods. In 2020, it overtook Alibaba in terms of the number of active buyers. Wu Yiling, 73, from China, CEO of Yiling Pharmaceutical. Wealth - $ 4.9 billion, growth for the year - $ 4 billion. Yiling Pharmaceutical produces drugs for respiratory diseases (including covid-19), cardiovascular, oncological, urological diseases, diabetes, etc. 68-year-old Ravi Jaipuria, India, HEAD of RJ Corp. Wealth - $ 8.9 billion, growth for the year - $ 3.9 billion. RJ Corp. operates in the food industry and operates KFC, Pizza Hut and Costa Coffee restaurants.

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Of the listed billionaires, only Adani is in the top five richest people (according to Forbes and Bloomberg) in the world, he is in third place. The first is currently occupied by Bernard Arnault (head of Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy, fortune, according to Forbes, $ 176 billion, according to Bloomberg - $ 159 billion). In second place is Tesla founder and Twitter owner Elon Musk (estimated at $139 billion to $146 billion). Previously, the first line of the ratings was occupied by Musk, but he began to lose ground amid falling Tesla shares.