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The Forbes 400 Richest Americans list has been published annually since 1982. The combined net worth of the 2020 class of the 400 richest Americans was $3.2 trillion, up from $2.7 trillion in 2017. [1] As of March 2023, there were 735 billionaires in the United States. [2]
Elon Musk has since surpassed John D. Rockefeller as the richest person in the history of the United States, and of modern history, according to size of wealth compared to GDP. On December 2024 his wealth reached $474 billion dollars (1.61% of USA's GDP at that year) compared to Rockeffeler's 1.5% at the height of his wealth. [5]
Using data from the 2024 Forbes 400 list, GOBankingRates identified the 10 richest people in America and ranked them in ascending order from least rich to richest.
There's rich and then there's making the Forbes-richest-people list rich. Forbes recently released its list of the 400 richest people in America in 2024 and 10 of those billionaires hail from Georgia.
America's Richest Men and Women in 2024. Elon Musk has topped the Forbes 400 2024 list of the richest people in America, published Tuesday.The 53-year-old Tesla and SpaceX cofounder was reported ...
The Forbes 400 is a report of who has the most wealth in the United States. They annually create a list of the richest people in America to exhibit the shape of the economy. The magazine displays the story of someone's rise to fame, their company, age, industrial residence, and education.
"The 400 richest people in America are having a rollicking time in the roaring 2020s," the list said. "In all, they are worth a record $5.4 trillion, up nearly $1 trillion from last year."
In the 32nd annual Forbes list of the world's billionaires, the aggregate wealth of the top 20 richest people on Earth amounted to about 13 percent of all billionaires' fortunes combined. [16] A record of 2,208 billionaires were in the ranking and the total wealth was $9.1 trillion, up 18% since 2017.