Forbes released a list of India’s top 10 Richest People recently. With the recent Corona outbreak, the world economy has taken a hit and as a result, the combined wealth of World’s billionaire has come down to $8 trillion from previous $8.7 trillion. The Indian market wasn’t safe from Corona Pandemic as well, India now has 102 Billionaires as compared to 106 in 2019. The total wealth of Indian Billionaires decreased by 23%, almost 20% of the total decline in wealth of billionaires is due to the generosity by Azim Premji who donated a large part of his shares in Wipro. He has donated till now $21 billion to education-focused charity. India also saw Byju Raveendran, founder of ed-tech company BYJU as the youngest Indian in the list of Billionaires. Byju’s net worth is $1.8 billion after BYJU was valued at $8 in the last round of funding.
Mukesh Ambani retains the top spot in the list of India’s top 10 Richest Billionaires. Despite losing a major chunk in his oil business due to recent oil crash and running up a mountain of debt due to expansion in Jio, Mukesh Ambani managed to retain his number 1 spot in India’s top 10 Richest People in 2020.
Let’s look at the complete list of India’s Top 10 Richest People in 2020
1. Mukesh Ambani: $36.8 Billion
![India's Richest Person of 2020 : Mukesh Ambani](https://thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/fit-in/416x416/filters%3Aformat%28jpg%29/https%3A%2F%2Fspecials-images.forbesimg.com%2Fimageserve%2F5c7d7829a7ea434b351ba0b6%2F0x0.jpg%3Fbackground%3D000000%26cropX1%3D206%26cropX2%3D2043%26cropY1%3D250%26cropY2%3D2089)
2. Radhakishan Damani: $13.8 Billion
![Radhakishan Damani portrait image](https://mews.in/assets/uploads/2020/05/18_06_2020-radhakishan_damani_20406208.jpg)
3. Shiv Nadar: $11.9 Billion
![Shiv Nadar](https://mews.in/assets/uploads/2020/05/media-handler-1024x768.jpg)
4. Uday Kotak: $10.4 Billion
![Uday Kotak portrait image](https://mews.in/assets/uploads/2020/05/imagef6f34967-790d-44dc-9d5a-c5ae8b1da2d9.jpg)
5. Gautam Adani: $8.9 Billion
![Gautam Adani posing](https://mews.in/assets/uploads/2020/05/Gautam-Adani.jpg)
6. Sunil Mittal: $8.8 Billion
![Sunil Mittal smiling](https://mews.in/assets/uploads/2020/05/sunil-mittal-pti.jpg)
7. Cyrus Poonawalla: $8.2 Billion
![Cyrus Poonawalla sitting on a chair](https://mews.in/assets/uploads/2020/05/cpg-corona.jpeg)
8. Kumar Birla: $7.6 Billion
![Kumar Birla talking in an interview](https://mews.in/assets/uploads/2020/05/1_HLOx7b69oOhk-5z4_sK3lg.jpeg)
9. Lakshmi Mittal: $7.4 Billion
![Lakshmi Mittal portfolio image](https://mews.in/assets/uploads/2020/05/ChwCM0yVEAAr9Kt.jpg)
For number 10 spot of India’s richest people in 2020 we have a tie, both Azim Premji and Dilip Shanghvi have a net worth of $6.1 billion.
10. Azim Premji: $6.1 Billion
![Azim Premji portrait image](https://mews.in/assets/uploads/2020/05/172953-azim-premjifb.jpg)
10. Dilip Shanghvi: $6.1 Billion
![Dilip-Shanghvi-Sun-Pharmaceuticals](https://mews.in/assets/uploads/2020/05/Dilip-Shanghvi-Sun-Pharmaceuticals-1583431785949.png)
Amazon‘s CEO, Jeff Bezos retained his position as the richest person of the world. India’s Mukesh Ambani ranked at 21 on the list of world’s richest person 2020