Elon Musk could not retain the title of the richest man in the world for a long time after Tesla shares fell 2.4% on Tuesday, wiping about $ 4.6 billion of its CEO’s fortune and removing him from the top of the list of the richest man in the world.

On the other hand, Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, regained the title of the richest man in the world, which he held for three years, until the end of last month, with an estimated wealth of $ 191.2 billion, which is $ 955 million higher than Mask's fortune.

According to Arabiyanet, citing a study prepared by Oxfam, the largest charity in Britain, the ten richest men in the world were able to increase their combined wealth by $ 540 billion during the Coronavirus pandemic.

Despite the epidemic, the study indicated that the wealth of a thousand billionaires in the world, most of them white men, returned to the record levels seen before the epidemic, in less than nine months with the recovery of stock markets, Despite the continuing recession in the real economy.

Billionaires' wealth totaled $ 11.95 trillion in December 2020, equivalent to the total spending of G20 governments on recovering from COVID-19.