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The Forbes 400 Richest Americans list has been published annually since 1982. The combined net worth of the 2020 class of the 400 richest Americans was $3.2 trillion, up from $2.7 trillion in 2017. [1] As of March 2023, there were 735 billionaires in the United States. [2]
In 1957, Fortune magazine developed a list of the seventy-six wealthiest Americans, which was published in many American newspapers. [6] Jean Paul Getty, when asked his reaction to being named wealthiest American and whether he was worth a billion dollars, said, "You know, if you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars" and then added, "But remember, a billion dollars isn't ...
In 2010, a Business Insider ethnic-demographic breakdown of the Forbes 400 richest Americans found three gay people, four Asian Indians, six (non-Indian) Asians, and 34 women on the list. [20] American Jews made up as many as 30% of the richest 100, [20] and (in 2009) 139 of the Forbes 400. [21]
There's rich and then there's making the Forbes-richest-people list rich. Forbes recently released its list of the 400 richest people in America in 2024 and 10 of those billionaires hail from Georgia.
America's Richest Men and Women in 2024. Elon Musk has topped the Forbes 400 2024 list of the richest people in America, published Tuesday. The 53-year-old Tesla and SpaceX cofounder was reported ...
Although the World Bank worries that 100 million people could be pushed into extreme poverty as a result of the pandemic, those who live in extreme wealth weathered the storm just fine. The world's...
A record number of 290 people joined the list for the first time, of whom 25 percent hailed from China, which produced a world-leading 71 newcomers. The United States came in second, with 57; followed by India, with 28; and Germany, with 23. [26] The United States had the largest number of billionaires with 526. Russia went down to 88 from 111 ...
The 20 richest people were worth $406 billion then, a fraction of the $3 trillion they're worth today. Musk alone is worth $454 billion today, exceeding the combined wealth of the top 20 in 2000.