According to the latest ranking established by Bloomberg, the American entrepreneur Elon Musk is now the second richest person on the planet, ahead of Bill Gates. Originally from South Africa, the boss of Tesla, who earns in 5 minutes, what a Swiss worker earns in 12 weeks, or an Ivorian smicard in 9.8 years.

Taking advantage of Tesla's meteoric rise on the stock market, Elon Musk's fortune currently stands at 127.9 billion dollars, an increase of 100 billion since the beginning of the year. He is now just ahead of the founder of Microsoft, whose fortune amounts to 127.7 billion dollars.

At the very top, Jeff Bezos unsurprisingly holds his own with an estimated $182 billion empire. The boss of Amazon signs the second strongest progression of the top 10 behind Musk, with 67 billion dollars raised since January. Finally, we find the CEO of LVMH in fourth place: with a fortune estimated at 105 billion dollars, Bernard Arnault is ahead of Mark Zuckerberg by a few billion, reports Statista.