today on Forbes the top 10 richest people in the world January 2025 the top 10 richest people in the world have a lot to smile about together the world's 10 richest people are worth $1. 9 trillion up from 1. 8 trillion on December 1st seven of the 10 are richer than they were a month ago these numbers are according to Forbes as of January 1st 2025 at 12:00 a.
m. eastern time stock prices flu uate routinely so these net worths may change on a daily basis Forbes tracks the daily changes on our realtime list of billionaires Elon Musk kicks off the new year not only as the world's richest person but also the only billionaire Forbes has tracked in nearly four decades to be worth more than $400 billion musk Begins the New Year worth 4212 billion per forbes's estimates a $91 billion increase since December 1st the big jump in his fortune came after SpaceX agreed to buy back Insider shares in a deal valuing the rocket company at$ 350 billion a deal first reported by Bloomberg the company had previously been worth $210 billion musk founded SpaceX in 2002 runs it as the CEO and owns an estimated 42% stake in the company the new valuation made SpaceX the most valuable private company in the world more than Tik Tock parent bite dance payments firm stripe or chat GPT Creator open AI musk also runs EV maker Tesla and owns stakes and social media firm X AI firm xai and tunnel company the boring company musk who started 2024 worth an estimated $251 billion has gained extra media attention since Donald Trump won the US presidential election in November Trump named musk the co-head of a new advisory body the department of government efficiency or set to reduce government spending and increase efficiency Jeff Bezos comes in as the world's number two richest up from number three at the start of December 2024 the Amazon founder and chairman who owns about 9% of the company got about $10 billion richer in the past month as shares of the e-commerce giant Rose about 5% he starts off 2025 worth an estimated $233. 6 billion about $188 billion less than musk Nvidia CEO and co-founder Jensen Huang joins the top 10 richest for the first time at the start of the month he's ranked number 10 and worth an estimated $118 billion mostly due to his stake in the chip designer whose shares Rose 171% in 2024 Nvidia ended the year with a market capitalization of 3.
28 trillion making it more valuable than Microsoft but not as valuable as Apple Huang overtook Spain's Amano Ortega founder of clothing retailer Zara and its publicly traded parent company inditex shares of inditex weakened in the past month most of the names on the top 10 are familiar names if you've been following along one notable name not on the list is Bill Gates who dropped out of the top 10 richest on October 1st after Forbes obtained new information about a significant contraction in his fortune nine of the 10 of the richest people in the world are Americans and all are men with fortunes over $117 billion The Biggest Loser of this group was Oracle chairman Larry Ellison whose Fortune fell by $7. 2 billion during the month to an estimated nearly $210 billion Ellison fell to number three richest in the world from number two at the start of December rounding out the top five are at number four meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg whose net worth is $22. 5 billion and at number five the CEO and chairman of luxury goods group lvmh Bernard Arno whose net worth is $68.
84 has been keeping track of the world's billionaires since 1987 in April 2024 we found 2781 of them for our annual list for full coverage check out the Forbes wealth teams piece on forbes.
