Forbes World’s Billionaires List 2025

World's Billionaires List 2025
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There are now more than 3,000 billionaires around the world, and they're richer than ever, worth a combined $16.1 trillion. But the distribution of this extreme affluence is far from equal. Just three nations account for more than 50% of all
billionaires (and billionaire wealth), while 17 other countries each have just one citizen in the three-comma club.

Nearly a third of this year's list hails from the United States, which remains the country with the most billionaire citizens by far. A record 902 American billionaires made the ranking (up from 813 last year), worth a record $6.8 trillion combined.

All but two of the world's 15 centibillionaires are U.S. citizens, including Elon Musk (estimated net worth: $342 billion), who reclaimed the title of world's richest person from Frenchman Bernard Arnault ($178 billion) of LVMH for the first time since the 2022 list. American tech titans Mark Zuckerberg of Meta ($216 billion), Jeff Bezos of Amazon ($215 billion) and Larry Ellison of Oracle ($192 billion), who trails Arnault, round out the list's top five.

China boasts the second-highest number of billionaires once again, with 450 on this year's list, who are worth $1.7 trillion combined. That's up from 406 Chinese billionaires last year—but still short of the record 495 that made the 2023 list with a combined net worth of $1.7 trillion, before a property market crash and stock market rout erased nearly $400 billion of Chinese wealth over the next year. Despite the U.S. government's attempts to force a sale of TikTok to an American owner, Zhang Yiming, who cofounded the social media app's parent company ByteDance, overtook bottled water magnate Zhong Shanshan ($57.7 billion) to become China's richest person in March, after ByteDance bought back shares at a $312 billion valuation, boosting Zhang's fortune to an estimated $65.5 billion.





The world's most populous country, India, still ranks third, with 205 billionaires (up from 200 last year) worth $941 billion combined, which is down from $954 billion last year. That's because the country's two richest people, Mukesh Ambani ($92.5 billion) and Gautam Adani ($56.3 billion), both saw their fortunes fall by more than $20 billion, as shares of their closely held conglomerates cratered.

And then there's Germany, which has the fourth most billionaires yet again, with 171 citizens on this year's list (up from 132 last year). Altogether, they're worth $793 billion, or about $150 billion more than in 2024, led by supermarket mogul Dieter Schwarz ($41 billion), who overtook shipping tycoon Klaus-Michael Kuehne ($39.6 billion) as Germany's richest person.

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Elsewhere in Europe, Albania has its first-ever billionaire this year in newcomer Samir Mane, who has built an estimated $1.4 billion fortune from investments in shopping malls, electronics stores and luxury real estate throughout the Balkans. Meanwhile, Peru is back on the list after dropping off in 2024, thanks to mining mogul Eduardo Hochschild (estimated net worth: $2.4 billion) returning to the ranking. And there are 14 newcomers and one returnee from Saudi Arabia, which returns to the list for the first time since 2017.

Three countries that had at least one ten-figure fortune last year have now lost their billionaires: Uruguay, Panama and Bangladesh (whose sole billionaire last year, industrialist Muhammed Aziz Khan, gave up his Bangladeshi birth citizenship as part of the naturalization process in his current home country of Singapore).

In all, 78 countries and territories have at least one billionaire citizen in 2025. Here are the ten with the most.
NET WORTHS ARE AS OF MARCH 7, 2025
#10. United Kingdom
Total billionaires: 55 (same as last year)
Total net worth: $238 billion (vs. $225 billion)
Richest person: Michael Platt, estimated net worth: $18.8 billion
#9. Brazil
Total billionaires: 56 (vs. 69 last year)
Total net worth: $212 billion (vs. $231 billion)
Richest person: Eduardo Saverin, $34.5 billion
#8. Hong Kong*
Total billionaires: 66 (vs. 67 last year)
Total net worth: $335 billion (vs. $330 billion)
Richest person: Li Ka-shing, $38.9 billion
#7. Italy
Total billionaires: 74 (vs. 73 last year)
Total net worth: $339 billion (vs. $302 billion)
Richest person: Giovanni Ferrero, $38.2 billion
#6. Canada
Total billionaires: 76 (vs. 67 last year)
Total net worth: $359 billion (vs. $315 billion )
Richest person: Changpeng Zhao, $62.9 billion

#5. Russia
Total billionaires: 140 (vs. 120 last year)
Total net worth: $580 billion (vs. $537 billion)
Richest person: Vagit Alekperov, $28.7 billion
#4. Germany
Total billionaires: 171 (vs. 132 last year)
Total net worth: $793 billion (vs. $644 billion)
Richest person: Dieter Schwarz, $41 billion
#3. India
Total billionaires: 205 (vs. 200 last year)
Total net worth: $941 billion (vs. $954 billion)
Richest person: Mukesh Ambani, $92.5 billion
#2. China
Total billionaires: 450 (vs. 406 last year)
Total net worth: $1.7 trillion (vs. $1.3 trillion)
Richest person: Zhang Yiming, $65.5 billion
#1. United States
Total billionaires: 902 (vs. 813 last year)
Total net worth: $6.8 trillion (vs. $5.7 trillion)
Richest person: Elon Musk, $342 billion
*Hong Kong is an autonomous territory of