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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 Rockefeller's 1.5% at the height of his wealth. [5]
Elon Musk is the wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$436 billion as of January 22, 2025, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, [212] and $426 billion according to Forbes, [213] primarily from his ownership stakes in Tesla, Inc. and SpaceX.
In 2019, Forbes counted a record 607 billionaires in the U.S.. [13] Over the course of the 2020s, depending on the source and the year, the world's richest person has been reckoned to be Jeff Bezos, Bernard Arnault and family, or Elon Musk. In 2019, 19 people became billionaires.
The world’s wealthiest people have several things in common, but one of the most prominent is that the 10 richest have more than $100 billion to their name. The very top have more than $200 billion.
Here’s a look at the top 10 richest people in the world. Elon Musk: $214.1 billion. Jeff Bezos: $200.4 billion. Bernard Arnault: $192.9 billion. Larry Ellison: $176.1 billion.
Mark Zuckerberg is currently the third richest person in the world with a net worth of approximately $18079 billion. He started Facebook in 2004 when he was 19 years old and is now the co-founder ...
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.
Some of America's richest people made their fortunes as innovators, most becoming self-made billionaires. They transformed the world with technology, have improved the lives of others with their