2018 was a bad year for the world's billionaires, with China losing 49 billionaires over the course of the year.
The country's richest people faced a combination of a slowing economy and a turbulent stock market, which was the worst performing major market in the world over the course of the year.
, there were 2,208 billionaires in the world. By the end of the year, there were 55 fewer, just 2,153.
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