The top of the world’s richest people has remained unchanged. The ten richest people currently own more than $1.8 trillion in wealth.
Economic magazine Forbes names the richest people in the world every year. Only one European made it to the January 2025 listing, and not a single woman.
The Forbes list is updated. This year’s first list was already published by Forbes at the beginning of January.
US entrepreneurs have dominated the top spots for years. Successful businessmen were also at the top of the January list. In total, the ten richest people in the world own assets worth more than 1.8 trillion dollars.
The richest person in the world is currently a South African-born entrepreneur, billionaire Elon Musk. According to Forbes estimates, Musk’s fortune is about 433 billion dollars.
Second placed By Jeff Bezos assets are approximately $239 billion according to Forbes. In the 2021 listing, when Bezos was in first place, Forbes estimated this wealth at $177 billion.
They are currently the richest people in the world
1. Elon Musk, USA, founder of Tesla and Spacex companies.
2. Jeff Bezos, USA, founder of e-commerce giant Amazon.
3. Mark Zuckerberg, USA, founder of Facebook.
4. Larry Ellison, USA, founder and CEO of the information technology company Oracle.
5. Bernard Arnault, France, CEO of luxury goods manufacturer LVMH.
6. Larry Page, USA, former CEO of Google’s parent company Alphabet.
7. Sergey Brin, USA, computer scientist and one of the founders of Google.
8. Warren Buffett, USA, investor and director of Berkshire Hathaway.
9. Steve Ballmer, USA, entrepreneur and investor, former employee of the technology giant Microsoft.
10. Jensen Huang, USA, co-founder and CEO of the technology company Nvidia.