By The Numbers: Who made Forbes World’s Billionaires List 2025 A look at the numbers behind the and celebrities who are topping Forbes' list of the richest people in the world this year. April 2, 2025 Additiona
There were 140 on the first list, in 1987. Photo by Sam Wong /Getty Images/iStockphoto Article content The richest American is also the richest person in the world, according to the latest edition of Forbes’ World’s Billionaires List. You probably know his name. But who is the richest...
dollars to 220 billion U.S. dollars in 2012. The biggest industries include real estate, manufacturing, and technology. The biggest gainer is Chinese billionaire Wang Jianlin whose net wealth has increased by 4 billion U.S. dollars to 8 billion U.S. dollars.DolanKerryA.Forbes.com...
Forbes has released a list that identifies therichest person residing in every U.S. statefor the fourth year in a row. The ranking takes into account wealth both self-made and inherited and places the world's richest man, Jeff Bezos, in Washington state, knocking stalwart Bill Gates off t...
Africa’s Billionaires List Aliko Dangote Net worth: $10.1 billion Origin of wealth: Cement, sugar Age: 62 Country: Nigeria Residence: Lagos Education: Al-Azhar University, Bachelor of Arts/Science Dangote, Africa’s richest man, founded and chairs Dangote Cement, the continent’s largest cement...
In the USA Forbes magazine has published its annual list of the richest people in the world.Bill Gates of Microsoft is the richest man again for the eleventh successive year with a fortune of forty four billion dollars. There are a record 691 dollar billionaires according to Forbes magazine.Be...
In the USA Forbes magazine has published its annual list of the richest people in the world. Bill Gates of Microsoft is the richest man again for the eleventh successive year with a fortune of forty four billion dollars. There are a record 691 dollar billionaires according to Forbes magazine...
Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX and the Bernard Arnault & family of the luxury seller LVMH were the world's top three richest, according to the Forbes' 35th Annual World's Billionaires List released on Tuesday. Zhong Shanshan, chairman of bottled-water company Nongfu Spr...
The world’s richest Black man is the first Black entry on the Forbes billionaire list. African billionaire Aliko Dangote comes in with an impressive $14 billion net worth. Just last week, it was announced that he opened a 3-million-tonne fertilizer plant at a cost of $2.5 ...
"The billionaire ranks prove that even the world's richest are not immune to economic forces and the volatility of world markets," Luisa Kroll, assistant managing editor of wealth at Forbes, said in a statement. In total, the top 20 billionaires on...