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It is based on an annual assessment of wealth and assets by Forbes and by data from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. 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]
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 the 32nd annual Forbes list of the world's billionaires, the aggregate wealth of the top 20 richest people on Earth amounted to about 13 percent of all billionaires' fortunes combined. [16] A record of 2,208 billionaires were in the ranking and the total wealth was $9.1 trillion, up 18% since 2017.
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.
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.
The world's richest people saw huge gains in their net worth on Wednesday as markets cheered the outcome of the 2024 election. ... Daily wealth gain: $20.9 billion. Net worth: $285.6 billion.
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] In 2017, just two African Americans made the ...
As millions of families struggled and stressed out over expiring unemployment benefits and eviction moratoriums while the COVID-19 crisis raged, the richest of the rich did what they've always ...