At the beginning of 2025, the ten richest people in the world became known. This list remains almost the same as it was a year ago.
It is traditionally compiled and published annually by the prestigious American financial and economic magazine Forbes.
In first place on this list, again, as last year, was the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and Network X (formerly Twitter), Elon Musk.
His fortune amounted to $421.2 billion (almost double compared to September last year, when it was $243.7 billion).
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos came in second with a net worth of $233.5 billion, up from $197 billion in September last year.
In third place is Jewish-American billionaire Larry Ellison with a fortune of $209.7 billion (compared to $174.7 billion in September last year, when he was only in fifth place).
Fourth place goes to Meta (Facebook) CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg. He is an American Jew with a net worth of $202.5 billion (up from $180.5 billion last September).
In fifth place is Bernard Arnault, who and his family own a number of leading luxury brands – Louis Vuitton, Dior and Tiffany. Total capital is valued at $168.4 billion, down from $189.4 billion last year when it ranked third.
Sixth place goes to another Jewish-American entrepreneur, Larry Page, with a fortune of $156 billion, up from $136.1 billion in September (then he was in eighth place).
Seventh place goes to Sergei Brin, also an American Jew, with a fortune of $149 billion, compared to $130.4 billion in September last year. Brin, who co-founded Google with Page, also moved up from ninth to seventh place.
In eighth place was 94-year-old Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of investment firm Berkshire Hathaway, with a net worth of $141.7 billion, up from $149.9 billion last September when he was in sixth place.
Steve Ballmer, the former CEO of Microsoft and an American Jew, is in ninth place with a fortune of $124.3 billion, up from $122.5 billion in September. Ballmer also moved up one spot on the list.
Coming in last on the list is Jensen Huang, president and CEO of Nvidia, with a net worth of $127.9 billion. His entry into the list prompted the exit of Microsoft founder and co-founder Bill Gates, who was ranked seventh last year.
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