World's top ten billionaires earned greatest wealth in 2017

Forbes tracked the net worth of more than 2,000 billionaires between January 1 and December 14 this year where Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, currently the world's richest man, topped the list of US$33.8 billion as Amazon's rising stock.

Ma Huateng who is famous for his nickname Pony Ma occupies fifth position. Ma is the founder and CEO of Tencent Holdings Limited collecting US$21.8 billion this year. Mukesh Ambani as CEO of Reliance Industries occupies the sixth position that collected US$18 billion.

Let's take a look at the full list of 10 billionaires earning the greatest fortune by 2017.

No 1 Jeff Bezos
Occupation: Amazon
Growth: $33.8 billion

No 2 Xu Jiayin
Occupation: Evergrande Real Estate Group
Growth: $27.4 billion

No 3 Bernard Arnault
Occupation: LVMH
Growth: $23.6 billion

No 4 Mark Zuckerberg
Occupation: Facebook
Growth: $23.6 billion

No 5 Pony Ma
Occupation: Tencent Holdings Ltd
Growth: $21.8 billion

No 6 Mukesh Ambani
Occupation: Reliance Industries Ltd
Growth: $18 billion

No 7 Carlos Slim Helu family
Occupation: America Movil SAB and Carso Global Telecom SAB
Growth: $15.3 billion

No 8 Yang Huiyan
Occupation: Country Garden Holdings
Growth: $14.8 billion

No 9 Larry Ellison
Occupation: Oracle Corp
Growth: $13.3 billion

No 10 Francois Pinault family
Occupation: Kering Group
Growth: $12.5 billion