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The World's Billionaires is an annual ranking of people who are billionaires, i.e., they are considered to have a net worth of US$1 billion or more, by the American business magazine Forbes. The list was first published in March 1987. [ 1 ]
This is a list of countries by their number of billionaire residents, based on annual assessments of the net worth in United States Dollars of wealthy individuals worldwide. Forbes Further information: The World's Billionaires
What the world needs is more billionaires — said no one ever. And yet, here we are. Oxfam reports that 204 new billionaires emerged in 2024; the combined wealth of billionaires worldwide grew ...
Previously the world's richest person since September 2021, Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk dipped to second place in 2022. Musk now has a net worth of $156.8 billion.
The American oil magnate John D. Rockefeller became the world's first confirmed U.S. dollar billionaire in 1916. [2] As of April 2024, there are 2,781 billionaires worldwide, with a combined wealth of over US$14.2 trillion, up from US$12.2 trillion in 2023.
The world's total number of billionaires also rose over the 12-month period, from 2,544 to 2,682, the report added. The wealth boom has been largely fueled by the US stock market, with the S&P 500 ...
The World's Billionaires; Forbes 400; Forbes list of the world's highest-paid athletes; See also. Overclass; Ultra high-net-worth individual This page was last edited ...
When Forbes started its billionaire tracking in 1987, the world's richest person was worth $20 billion. At the time of the 2021 ranking, the world's richest person (Jeff Bezos) was worth $177 billion.