top 10 richest people in the world 2025 elon musk leads
In 2025, the total number of billionaires across the globe was at an all-time record of 3,028, with a joint wealth of $16.1 trillion. The leader of this list is Elon Musk, whose net worth holds the figure of $423 billion, and tech moguls and business barons who have contributed to the development of modern society by creating new economic opportunities through innovation and smart investments.
| Rank | Name | Net Worth | Primary Source | Age | Country |
| 1 | Elon Musk | $423 billion | Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, X | 53 | United States |
| 2 | Mark Zuckerberg | $224 billion | Meta (Facebook) | 41 | United States |
| 3 | Jeff Bezos | $220 billion | Amazon | 61 | United States |
| 4 | Larry Ellison | $206 billion | Oracle | 80 | United States |
| 5 | Warren Buffett | $158 billion | Berkshire Hathaway | 94 | United States |
| 6 | Bernard Arnault | $144 billion | LVMH/Luxury Goods | 76 | France |
| 7 | Larry Page | $142 billion | 52 | United States | |
| 8 | Sergey Brin | $136 billion | 51 | United States | |
| 9 | Steve Ballmer | $133 billion | Microsoft, LA Clippers | 69 | United States |
| 10 | Amancio Ortega | $124 billion | Inditex (Zara) | 89 | Spain |
Elon Musk is the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, with a position as chairman of social media company X and founder of AI company xAI. He is mainly wealthy because of the 12 percent stake in Tesla and SpaceX. He is the founder of PayPal and is also reshaping the world of electric vehicles and space exploration.
Mark Zuckerberg has been on an upward wealthy person in recent years and therefore stands among the richest people in the world. At Harvard, he co-created Facebook in 2004, which became one of the largest social networks in the world and is now known as Meta Platforms. Instagram and WhatsApp are the properties of the company, and Zuckerberg retains a share of about 13 percent stake.
Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, and it changed e-commerce and cloud computing. He resigned as CEO in 2021 but was still serving as the chairman and was involved in space exploration by Blue Origin. He is a billionaire and this is as a result of the slightly less than 10 percent Amazon share ownership where he has sold more than $38 billion worth of Amazon stock since the company became pubic.
The value of Larry Ellison increased by $29 billion when the Oracle shares went up by 18 percent. He is the co-founder of Titan and was its CEO up until 2014, as well as its chairman and CTO. He possesses 98 percent of the Hawaiian island and has invested in Tesla, being a member of their board from 2018 to 2022.
Warren Buffett heads a company called Berkshire Hathaway, whose portfolio includes Geico, Duracell, and Dairy Queen. He will also retire as CEO at the end of 2025. One of the most legendary investors who purchased his first share at 11 years, he has signed the Giving Pledge initiative and is determined to devote 99 percent of his wealth to charity.
Bernard Arnault also heads the luxury brand empire LVMH, which comprises 70 brands, including Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, and Tiffany & Co. He constructed the largest luxury company in the world after inheriting an initial capital of 15 million from his father’s construction company. All five children are employees of the LVMH empire, which has guaranteed continuity of the family in luxury retailing.
In 1998, with Sergey Brin, Larry Page co-founded Google as a PhD student of Stanford University, where he remained as its CEO until 2001 and later from 2011-2015. He is a current member of the Alphabet board of directors and the chief shareholder, along with investments in futuristic technologies such as asteroid mining.
The Alphabet stocks increased by $9 billion, boosting the wealth of Sergey Brin with Page. The Google co-founder came out of semi-retirement to work on Google’s AI chatbot named Gemini. Similar to Page, he is both a member of the Alphabet board and a controlling stockholder, and he, therefore, has a lot of influence over the direction and innovation of the tech giant.
Born in 1956, Steve Ballmer joined the company of Microsoft in 1980, as the 30th employee of the company after quitting his MBA degree at Stanford. His term as CEO was 2000-2014, when he bought the LA Clippers at an amount of $2 billion. The team is currently in a valuation at $5.5 billion, and with the opening of their new Intuit Dome stadium in August 2024, about LAX.
A pioneer of fast fashion, Amancio Ortega created Inditex in 1975 with his former wife, Rosalia Mera. He has a 60 percent stake in the Madrid-listed company, which has 5,000 outlets worldwide under eight brands such as Zara, Massimo Dutti, and Pull & Bear. His daughter Marta joined as a chairperson in the year 2022, thus keeping the legacy of the family.
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