We put together a list of the world's richest people of 2019, using up-to-minute data from Bloomberg. The majority of the billionaires on the list are self-made billionaires who built business empires in tech, finance, fashion, and sports. A few of the billionaires inherited stakes in their family's companies. There's rich. And then there's world's richest people rich. To make it into the latter group, you now need a net worth of at least $17 billion. Using the calculations from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, we put together a list of the 50 richest people in the world.