Today he is consistently ranked in the Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people[9] and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2014—excluding a few brief periods post-2008.[10] Between 2009 and 2014 his wealth more than doubled from $40 billion to more than $82 billion.[11] Between 2013 and 2014 his wealth increased by $15 billion, or around $1.5 billion more than the entire GDP of Iceland in 2014.[12]