2025 Forbes Global Billionaires List released, Musk tops the list with a net worth of $342 billion, becoming the world's richest person.

On April 1, 2025, the Forbes Global Billionaires List was released. In 2025, a record-breaking 3,028 people globally appeared on the Forbes annual Global Billionaires List, an increase of 247 people from the previous year, marking the first time the number of billionaires has exceeded 3,000. Their total wealth reached a record-breaking $16.1 trillion, an increase of $2 trillion from a year ago; the average wealth of billionaires is $5.3 billion, an increase of $200 million from 2024. Over the past year, Elon Musk's wealth increased by $147 billion to $342 billion. Despite recent protests and stock market sell-offs at Tesla, the stock price remains higher than a year ago. This has enabled Musk to reclaim the title of the world's richest person from Bernard Arnault by $1.26 billion more than the second-ranked Mark Zuckerberg ($216 billion). Amazon's Jeff Bezos ($215 billion) ranks third, with Oracle's Larry Ellison ($192 billion) in fourth place. Arnault ($178 billion) dropped to fifth place due to a fall in the stock price of his luxury goods group LVMH. Of the global billionaires, only 406 are women, accounting for 13.4% of the total list, slightly up from 13.3% last year. In 2025, a total of 288 new faces made it to the annual Billionaires list. They include celebrities such as rock star Bruce Springsteen ($1.2 billion), actor Arnold Schwarzenegger ($1.1 billion), and comedian Jerry Seinfeld ($1.1 billion). The newcomers also include several artificial intelligence entrepreneurs from companies like Anthropic, CoreWeave, and DeepSeek, as well as magnates behind well-known food chains like Cava, Chipotle, Jersey Mike's, and Zaxby's. While the overall trend of the global billionaires list shows a growth in wealth, some billionaires experienced setbacks in 2024. A total of 107 billionaires fell off the 2025 list due to a decline in wealth, including noteworthy dropouts such as AMD CEO Lisa Su, Supermicro co-founder Sara Liu, whose server and storage equipment manufacturing business faced difficulties, and Nicolas Puech, the Hermes luxury goods empire heir who claimed his assets mysteriously disappeared. The top 10 on the Forbes 39th annual Global Billionaires list are as follows: