Forbes has been scanning the globe for billionaires since 1987. We found 140 of them that first year. It took two decades for their numbers to swell beyond 1,000. Then there were 2,000 in 2017. Now, eight years later, another milestone: 3,028 entrepreneurs, investors and heirs make up this year’s ranking, 247 more than a year ago. Not only are there more of them, but they’re richer than ever, worth $16.1 trillion in total—up nearly $2 trillion over 2024. The U.S. has a record 902 billionaires, followed by China (516, including Hong Kong) and India (205). We used stock prices and exchange rates from March 7, 2025. For daily updated net worths of all 3,028 billionaires.

Rank Name Net Worth Age Country/Territory Source Industry
1 Elon Musk $342 B 53 United States Tesla, SpaceX Automotive
Elon Musk cofounded seven companies, including electric car maker Tesla, rocket producer SpaceX and artificial intelligence startup xAI.
2 Mark Zuckerberg $216 B 40 United States Facebook Technology
3 Jeff Bezos $215 B 61 United States Amazon Technology
4 Larry Ellison $192 B 80 United States Oracle Technology
5 Bernard Arnault & family $178 B 76 France LVMH Fashion & Retail
6 Warren Buffett $154 B 94 United States Berkshire Hathaway Finance & Investments
7 Larry Page $144 B 52 United States Google Technology
8 Sergey Brin $138 B 51 United States Google Technology
9 Amancio Ortega $124 B 89 Spain Zara Fashion & Retail
10 Steve Ballmer $118 B 69 United States Microsoft Technology
11 Rob Walton & family $110 B 80 United States Walmart Fashion & Retail
12 Jim Walton & family $109 B 76 United States Walmart Fashion & Retail
13 Bill Gates $108 B 69 United States Microsoft Technology
14 Michael Bloomberg $105 B 83 United States Bloomberg LP Finance & Investments
15 Alice Walton $101 B 75 United States Walmart Fashion & Retail
16 Jensen Huang $98.7 B 62 United States Semiconductors Technology
17 Michael Dell $97.7 B 60 United States Dell Technologies Technology
18 Mukesh Ambani $92.5 B 67 India Diversified Diversified
19 Carlos Slim Helu & family $82.5 B 85 Mexico Telecom Telecom
20 Francoise Bettencourt Meyers & family $81.6 B 71 France L’Oréal Fashion & Retail
21 Julia Koch & family $74.2 B 62 United States Koch, Inc. Diversified
22 Charles Koch & family $67.5 B 89 United States Koch, Inc. Diversified
23 Zhang Yiming $65.5 B 41 China TikTok Technology
24 Changpeng Zhao $62.9 B 48 Canada Cryptocurrency exchange Finance & Investments
25 Jeff Yass $59 B 66 United States Trading, investments Finance & Investments
26 Zhong Shanshan $57.7 B 70 China Beverages, pharmaceuticals Food & Beverage
27 Thomas Peterffy $57.3 B 80 United States Discount brokerage Finance & Investments
28 Gautam Adani $56.3 B 62 India Infrastructure, commodities Diversified
29 Ma Huateng $56.2 B 53 China Online games Technology
30 Tadashi Yanai & family $45.1 B 76 Japan Fashion retail Fashion & Retail

31 Stephen Schwarzman $44.4 B 78 United States Investments Finance & Investments
32 Lei Jun $43.5 B 55 China Smartphones Technology
33 Jacqueline Mars $42.6 B 85 United States Candy, pet food Food & Beverage
33 John Mars $42.6 B 89 United States Candy, pet food Food & Beverage
35 Ken Griffin $42.3 B 56 United States Hedge funds Finance & Investments
35 Colin Huang $42.3 B 45 China E-commerce Technology
37 Dieter Schwarz $41 B 85 Germany Retail Fashion & Retail
38 Mark Mateschitz $40.6 B 32 Austria Red Bull Food & Beverage
39 Klaus-Michael Kuehne $39.6 B 87 Germany Shipping Logistics
40 Li Ka-shing $38.9 B 96 Hong Kong Diversified Diversified
41 Giovanni Ferrero $38.2 B 60 Italy Nutella, chocolates Food & Beverage
42 Lukas Walton $37.9 B 38 United States Walmart Fashion & Retail
42 Robin Zeng $37.9 B 56 Hong Kong Batteries Automotive
44 Gianluigi Aponte $37.7 B 84 Switzerland Shipping Logistics
44 Rafaela Aponte-Diamant $37.7 B 80 Switzerland Shipping Logistics

46 Alain Wertheimer $36 B 76 France Chanel Fashion & Retail
46 Gerard Wertheimer $36 B 74 France Chanel Fashion & Retail
48 Savitri Jindal & family $35.5 B 75 India Steel Metals & Mining
49 Phil Knight & family $35.4 B 87 United States Nike Fashion & Retail
50 Reinhold Wuerth & family $35.1 B 89 Germany Fasteners Manufacturing

51 Shiv Nadar $34.5 B 79 India Software services Technology
Indian IT pioneer Shiv Nadar cofounded HCL in a garage in 1976 to make calculator and microprocessors with five friends.
51 Eduardo Saverin $34.5 B 43 Brazil Facebook Technology
53 Andrea Pignataro $34.2 B 54 Italy Financial software Finance & Investments
54 William Ding $33.3 B 53 China Online games Technology
55 Abigail Johnson $32.7 B 63 United States Fidelity Finance & Investments
56 Miriam Adelson & family $32.1 B 79 United States Casinos Gambling & Casinos
57 Marilyn Simons & family $31 B 74 United States Hedge funds Finance & Investments
58 Melinda French Gates $30.4 B 60 United States Microsoft, investments Technology
59 Len Blavatnik $29.9 B 67 United States Music, chemicals Diversified
60 Masayoshi Son $29.4 B 67 Japan Telecom, Investments Finance & Investments
61 Gina Rinehart $29.3 B 71 Australia Mining Metals & Mining
62 Vagit Alekperov $28.7 B 74 Russia Oil Energy
63 Jack Ma $28.6 B 60 China E-commerce Technology
63 Alexey Mordashov & family $28.6 B 59 Russia Steel, investments Metals & Mining
63 Germán Larrea Mota Velasco & family $28.6 B 71 Mexico Mining Metals & Mining

66 Leonid Mikhelson & family $28.4 B 69 Russia Gas, chemicals Energy
67 Elaine Marshall & family $28.3 B 82 United States Koch Inc. Diversified
68 Eyal Ofer $28.2 B 74 Israel Real estate, shipping Diversified
68 MacKenzie Scott $28.2 B 54 United States Amazon Technology
70 Iris Fontbona & family $28.1 B 82 Chile Mining Metals & Mining
71 Daniel Gilbert $27.8 B 63 United States Rocket Mortgage Finance & Investments
72 Low Tuck Kwong $27.3 B 76 Indonesia Coal Energy
73 Thomas Frist, Jr. & family $27 B 86 United States Hospitals Healthcare
73 He Xiangjian & family $27 B 82 China Home appliances Manufacturing
75 Vladimir Lisin $26.5 B 68 Russia Steel, transport Metals & Mining
76 Wang Chuanfu $26.4 B 58 China Batteries, automobiles Automotive
77 Lyndal Stephens Greth & family $25.8 B 50 United States Oil & gas Energy
78 Susanne Klatten $25.2 B 62 Germany BMW, pharmaceuticals Automotive
79 Dilip Shanghvi $24.9 B 69 India Pharmaceuticals Healthcare
80 Emmanuel Besnier $24.5 B 54 France Cheese Food & Beverage

81 Vladimir Potanin $24.2 B 64 Russia Metals Metals & Mining
82 Eric Schmidt $24 B 69 United States Google Technology
83 Aliko Dangote $23.9 B 67 Nigeria Cement, sugar Manufacturing
84 Stefan Quandt $23.8 B 58 Germany BMW Automotive
85 Gennady Timchenko $23.2 B 72 Russia Oil, gas Energy
86 Cyrus Poonawalla $23.1 B 83 India Vaccines Healthcare
87 Rupert Murdoch & family $23 B 94 United States Newspapers, TV network Media & Entertainment
88 John Menard, Jr. $22.9 B 85 United States Home improvement stores Fashion & Retail
89 Idan Ofer $22.5 B 69 Israel Shipping Diversified
90 Giancarlo Devasini $22.4 B 60 Italy Cryptocurrency Finance & Investments
90 R. Budi Hartono $22.4 B 84 Indonesia Banking, tobacco Finance & Investments
92 Diane Hendricks $21.9 B 78 United States Building supplies Construction & Engineering
93 François Pinault & family $21.7 B 88 France Luxury goods Fashion & Retail
94 Michael Hartono $21.5 B 85 Indonesia Banking, tobacco Manufacturing
95 Steve Cohen $21.3 B 68 United States Hedge funds Finance & Investments

96 David Tepper $21.3 B 67 United States Hedge funds Finance & Investments
97 Kumar Birla $20.9 B 57 India Diversified Diversified
98 Vicky Safra & family $20.7 B 72 Brazil Banking Finance & Investments
99 Lu Xiangyang $20 B 62 China Automobiles, batteries Automotive
100 Prajogo Pangestu $20 B 80 Indonesia Petrochemicals, energy Diversified

101 Henry Samueli $19.7 B 70 United States Semiconductors Technology
102 Takemitsu Takizaki $19.5 B 79 Japan Sensors Manufacturing
103 Lakshmi Mittal $19.2 B 74 India Steel Metals & Mining
104 Harry Triguboff $19.1 B 92 Australia Real estate Real Estate
105 Donald Bren $18.9 B 92 United States Real estate Real Estate
106 Michael Platt $18.8 B 57 United Kingdom Hedge funds Finance & Investments
107 Eric Li $18.7 B 61 China Automobiles Automotive
108 Stefan Persson $18.6 B 77 Sweden H&M Fashion & Retail
109 Harold Hamm & family $18.5 B 79 United States Oil & gas Energy
109 Christy Walton $18.5 B 76 United States Walmart Fashion & Retail
111 Stephen Ross $18.4 B 84 United States Real estate Real Estate
112 Renata Kellnerova & family $18.2 B 57 Czech Republic Finance, telecommunications Finance & Investments
113 Stanley Kroenke $18 B 77 United States Sports, real estate Sports
114 Andreas von Bechtolsheim & family $17.9 B 69 Germany Google Technology
115 Huang Shilin $17.4 B 58 China Batteries Automotive

115 Andrey Melnichenko & family $17.4 B 53 Russia Fertilizers, coal Metals & Mining
117 Manuel Villar $17.2 B 75 Philippines Real estate Real Estate
118 Pavel Durov $17.1 B 40 United Arab Emirates Messaging app Technology
119 John Fredriksen $17 B 80 Cyprus Shipping Logistics
119 Jorge Paulo Lemann & family $17 B 85 Brazil Beer Food & Beverage
119 Dustin Moskovitz $17 B 40 United States Facebook Technology
122 Philip Anschutz $16.9 B 85 United States Energy, sports, entertainment Finance & Investments
122 Lin Bin $16.9 B 57 United States Smartphones Technology
122 Zhang Zhidong $16.9 B 53 China Online games Technology
125 Sherry Brydson $16.7 B 78 Canada Thomson Reuters Media & Entertainment
125 Alisher Usmanov $16.7 B 71 Russia Steel, telecom, investments Metals & Mining
127 Jerry Jones & family $16.6 B 82 United States Dallas Cowboys Sports
128 Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud $16.5 B 70 Saudi Arabia investments Finance & Investments
128 Jan Koum $16.5 B 49 United States WhatsApp Technology
130 Suleiman Kerimov & family $16.4 B 59 Russia Gold Finance & Investments

131 Peter Thiel $16.3 B 57 United States Facebook, investments Finance & Investments
132 Henry Nicholas, III. $16.2 B 65 United States Semiconductors Technology
132 Wang Wei $16.2 B 54 China Package delivery Service
134 James Ratcliffe $16 B 72 United Kingdom Chemicals Manufacturing
135 Robert Pera $15.7 B 47 United States Wireless networking Technology
136 Laurene Powell Jobs $15.6 B 61 United States Apple, Disney Technology
136 Eric Smidt $15.6 B 65 United States Hardware stores Fashion & Retail
138 Radhakishan Damani $15.4 B 70 India Retail, investments Fashion & Retail
138 George Kaiser $15.4 B 82 United States Oil & gas, banking Energy
138 Zheng Shuliang & family $15.4 B 79 China Aluminum products Metals & Mining
141 Dhanin Chearavanont $15.2 B 85 Thailand Diversified Diversified
141 Hasso Plattner & family $15.2 B 81 Germany Software Technology
143 Theo Albrecht, Jr. & family $15 B 74 Germany Aldi, Trader Joe’s Fashion & Retail
143 Karl Albrecht Jr. & family $15 B 77 Germany Supermarkets Fashion & Retail
143 Beate Heister $15 B 74 Germany Supermarkets Fashion & Retail

144 Vinod Adani $14.9 B 76 Cyprus Infrastructure, commodities Diversified
145 Leon Black $14.9 B 73 United States Private equity Finance & Investments
147 Mike Cannon-Brookes $14.9 B 45 Australia Software Technology
148 Mikhail Fridman $14.9 B 60 Russia Oil, banking, telecom Energy
149 Ernest Garcia, II. $14.9 B 67 United States Used cars Automotive

150 Nancy Walton Laurie $14.7 B 73 United States Walmart Fashion & Retail
151 George Roberts $14.7 B 81 United States Private equity Finance & Investments
152 Arthur Dantchik $14.6 B 67 United States Trading, investments Finance & Investments
153 James Dyson $14.6 B 77 United Kingdom Vacuums Manufacturing
154 Scott Farquhar $14.6 B 45 Australia Software Technology
155 Qin Yinglin $14.6 B 59 China Pig breeding Food & Beverage
156 Wang Xing $14.6 B 46 China Food delivery Technology
157 Dang Yanbao $14.5 B 52 China Coal Metals & Mining
158 Kushal Pal Singh $14.5 B 93 India Real estate Real Estate
159 Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken & family $14.4 B 70 Netherlands Heineken Food & Beverage
160 Andrew Forrest & family $14.4 B 63 Australia Mining Metals & Mining
161 Donald Newhouse $14.4 B 95 United States Media Media & Entertainment
162 David Cheriton $14.3 B 74 Canada Google Technology
163 Israel Englander $14.2 B 76 United States Hedge funds Finance & Investments
164 Ray Dalio $14 B 75 United States Hedge funds Finance & Investments