TBillionaires du Monde have always been rich and powerful, but never more than now. This is particularly true in the United States, where Donald Trump was sworn in (still) as a chief American billionaire in January. This time, it gives the billionaire class more control over the government than ever before. His right arm is the richest person on the planet. Its administration has at least ten billionaires and billionaire spouses. And the dozens of billionaire managers – from Mark Zuckerberg de Meta to the French luxury track Bernard Arnault – lined up behind Trump.
The Bonanza billionaire, however, extends beyond the United States. A record of 3,028 people worldwide Forbes“The annual list of billionaires around the world this year, 247 more than last year. This is the first time that the billionaire population has crossed the 3,000 mark. They have been worth a record of 16.1 billions of dollars in total, 2 more dollars more a year ago and more than the GDP of all countries in the world in addition to the United States and China. The average fortune now amounts to $ 5.3 billion, up $ 200 million compared to 2024.
There are now three people worth more than $ 200 billion for the first time, being part of the record of 15 members of the $ 100 billion clubThe elite group at the top of the list whose net value extends over a dozen figures. It is up compared to 14 a year ago and none in 2017. These 15 centillionaries are worth 2.4 billions of dollars, more than the 1,500 billionaires lower combined.
The richest of all is Elon Muskof an estimated value at $ 342 billion. Although it spends much more from (already divided) in Doge, the Trump cost reduction operation, Musk added $ 147 billion to his fortune in the past year, thanks to a successful year for his SPACEX rocket company and his IA XAI company (which he merged with his social media giant last week). Even Tesla, despite the recent protests and a stock market sale, was negotiated a year ago. This allowed Musk to recover the title of the richest person in the world of Arnault, and gave him a 26 billion dollar lead on the next richest person: Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg (estimated net value: $ 216 billion), which ranks n ° 2 for the first time. Amazon Jeff Bezos (215 billion dollars) classify n ° 3 and oracle Larry Ellison (192 billion dollars) ranked fourth. Arnault (178 billion dollars), on the other hand, decreases in fifth rank, its lowest rank since 2017, in the midst of a collapse of the actions of its luxury conglomerate LVMH. Forbes used equity prices and exchange rates of March 7, 2025 for this year’s ranking.
THE UNITED STATES, With a record of 902 billionaires of citizens, continues to boast more billionaires than everywhere else on the planet. Chinawith 516 (including Hong Kong), remains second and IndiaWith 205, still ranks third. More than 50% of all lists are citizens of one of these three countries, but in total 76 nations and two semi-autonic territories have at least one billionaire, including Albania for the first time. Forbes also added 15 of Saudi Arabia This year, after having withdrawn the billionaires from the kingdom in 2018 following a government repression.
In all, 288 fresh faces Join the annual classification of billionaires this year. This includes celebrities like Rockstar Bruce Springsteen ($ 1.2 billion), movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger ($ 1.1 billion) and actor Jerry breastfeld ($ 1.1 billion). Also new: controversial crypto pingto Justin Sun (8.5 billion dollars), several magnate to the artificial intelligence of companies such as Anthropic, Coreweave and Deepseek, and the magnates behind several notable food chains: Cava, Chipotle, Jersey Mike and Zaxby’s.
The richest newcomer of all is Marilyn Simons (31 billion dollars), the widow of legend of hedge funds Jim Simons, died in May 2024. He was one of the 32 billionaires who died during the past year. (Another, the Israeli industrial titan Stef Wertheimer, died at the end of March, after having locked the list, and thus appears in the ranks.)
Simons is one of 406 women Among the billionaires of the world, only 13.4% of the list, increasing the hair by 13.3% last year. Almost three -quarters inherited their fortune. Which includes richest woman in the worldHeir to Walmart Alice Walton (101 billion dollars), which exceeded the French heir to Oreal Françoise Bettencourt Meyers (81.6 billion dollars) for first place in women. Forbes found only 113 self -taught women from around the world, the richest of which is the Swiss expedition magnate Rafaela Aponte-Diamant (37.7 billion dollars) of which the company teams up with BlackRock this year on a plan to buy 43 ports, including two in Panama.
Overall, 67% of the list is self-made-what they have founded or co-founded their business or established their own fortune, rather than inheriting it by 66% in 2024. The youngest auto-failed billionaire is the co-founder and the CEO of AI on a scale and Alexandr Wang ($ 2 billion), which is 28 years old.
Wang is one of the only 21 billionaires of 30 years, including Johannes von Baumbach ($ 5.4 billion), an heir to 19 from a German pharmaceutical fortune, a newcomer who is now the youngest billionaire in the world. The oldest billionaire, at 103, is an American insurance magnate George Joseph ($ 1.9 billion), one of the four lists that reached the century bar. The average billionaire is 66 years old.
Few billionaires had a better year than Donald Trump– And not only because he took over the American presidency. Before returning to the White House, he padded his Tas of cash with a very lucrative movement in the crypto. Between this and his Trump Media & Technology group in public just after Forbes Establish in its 2024 ranking, the president’s net value only doubled, going from $ 2.3 billion to around $ 5.1 billion.
A small handful of billionaires, relatively speaking, did not do so well. In total, 107 people who were in the 2024 ranking is simply no longer rich enough to cut. Notable departures include Lisa SU, which is the CEO of the Advanced Micro Devices semiconductors (AMD); Sara Liu, co -founder of the server in difficulty and the supermicro storage store; And Nicholas Puech, heir to the Empire of luxury products Hermès who says that his fortune has disappeared.
The global list of billionaires is a classification of each person on the planet that Forbes estimated at a net value of 1 billion US dollars or more in March 7, 2025. Some billionaires have become richer or poorer in the following time; Indeed, Forbes I found three billionaires more shortly after locating this year’s list and there are probably more. Like most of our readers, we also have the impact of prices on the world stock market. For daily updated rankings, see Forbes‘Tracker in real time. When possible, we have encountered billionaires in person or we talked with them practically or by phone. We also interviewed their employees, managers, asset managers and financial, rival, peers and lawyers. The discovery of their fortune forced us to switch to more than thousands of titles and the exchange commission and other regulatory documents, legal deposits, approval files and press articles. We have taken into account all types of assets: challenges in public and private companies, real estate, art, yachts, planes, ranchs, vineyards, jewelry, car collections and more. We have taken into account known debt and charity donations. We exclude dispersed family fortunes, although we listed the wealth belonging to the immediate family of the living founder of a fortune under the name of the founder. In some cases, we also include the wealth held by the immediate member of the family of an heir. In either case, you will see “& family” in a person’s list. For the full list of 3,028 billionaires in the world, see here.
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