According to reports published Saturday in Forbes Australia, despite the recent plunge in Tesla stock, the company's CEO, Elon Musk, is still the richest person in the world today. Musk has held this title continuously since May 2024.
Jeff Bezos, founder and chairman of Amazon, who was still in second place at the end of February, dropped to third place on the list this month, with his position taken by none other than Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of Meta.
Eight out of the 10 richest people in the world are Americans, the other two citizens are French Bernard Arnault and Spanish Amancio Ortega, and half of the people on the list are Jewish. All ten of the world's richest people as of March 1, 2025, are men. Each of their fortunes is estimated at approximately $118 billion or more.
Alongside these, Microsoft founder Bill Gates has fallen off the list since October 2024 after information that reached Forbes revealed a significant reduction in his wealth. In his place, Amancio Ortega, founder and chairman of Inditex Group and owner of the Zara store chain, entered the list in ninth place.
The 10 richest people in the world as of today:
- Elon Musk (owner of X network, CEO of Tesla)
- Mark Zuckerberg (Jewish-American, CEO and founder of Meta)
- Jeff Bezos (founder of Amazon)
- Larry Ellison (Jewish-American billionaire, Chief Technology Officer at Oracle Corporation)
- Bernard Arnault (French owner of LVMH corporation)
- Warren Buffett (Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway investment firm)
- Larry Page (Jewish-American entrepreneur, co-founded Google with Brin)
- Sergey Brin (Jewish-American entrepreneur, co-founded Google with Page)
- Amancio Ortega (founder and chairman of global Inditex Group)
- Steve Ballmer (Jewish-American, former CEO of Microsoft)
