{"id":183799,"date":"2026-02-01T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/01\/the-top-10-richest-people-in-the-world-february-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T10:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:35:13","slug":"the-top-10-richest-people-in-the-world-february-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/01\/the-top-10-richest-people-in-the-world-february-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"The Top 10 Richest People In The World (February 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/news\/billionaires\/the-top-10-richest-people-in-the-world-february-2026\/\">The Top 10 Richest People In The World (February 2026)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/news\/billionaires\/the-top-10-richest-people-in-the-world-february-2026\/\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/news\/billionaires\/the-top-10-richest-people-in-the-world-february-2026\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-01 18:35:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.forbes.com.au\">www.forbes.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are the main points from the Forbes article:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Half of the top ten richest people moved up or down in Forbes&#8217; Real-Time Billionaires ranking in January 2026.   <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Elon Musk remains the world&#8217;s richest person with a net worth of $775 billion, up $48 billion since last month. He topped the list by a wide margin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Larry Page overtook Larry Ellison to become the second richest person with a net worth of $277 billion.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Bill Gates dropped out of the top 10 richest in October 2024 after Forbes obtained new information that decreased his fortune.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; 8\/10 of the richest people are Americans. The two non-U.S. citizens are France&#8217;s Bernard Arnault and Spain&#8217;s Amancio Ortega.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; All the top 10 richest as of February 1 are men, each worth $147 billion or more, down from $152 billion last month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Musk&#8217;s fortune was boosted by his artificial intelligence and social media company xAI Holdings, which raised $20 billion and valued at $250 billion.<\/p>\n<p>This summarises the key details around the Forbes Real-Time Billionaires ranking in January 2026, highlighting the shifts in fortune among the world&#8217;s richest 10 people.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Top 10 Richest People In The World (February 2026) https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/news\/billionaires\/the-top-10-richest-people-in-the-world-february-2026\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-01 18:35:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-2.png?w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-183799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183801,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183799\/revisions\/183801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}