US EditionA $2.2 Trillion Jump in Billionaire Net Worth
The 500 richest billionaires saw their net worth rise to $11.9 trillion in 2025, driven by AI and big tech gains including a 65% increase in Alphabet’s stock value.
- This year, Bloomberg's Billionaires Index shows the 500 richest individuals added $2.2 trillion, raising their net worth to about $11.9 trillion.
- Big Tech companies benefited from artificial intelligence as Alphabet Inc., parent of Google, saw its stock rise 65% this year, boosting its market cap to $3.8 trillion.
- This year, Musk's net worth rose by $190 billion to $632 billion, more than double Larry Page's $270 billion, with holdings including 15% of Tesla Inc.
- Roughly a quarter of Bloomberg's wealth index gains came from eight individuals, while 92 new self-made billionaires in the U.S. generated $179.9 billion in new fortunes this year.
- UBS Global Wealth Management finds billionaire families increasingly mobile, while the IRS 'Expatriation List' recorded roughly 4,820 renunciations in 2024, up 48% from 2023.
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Led by Big Tech billionaires including Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, and Elon Musk, the world’s 500 richest people added a record $2.2 trillion to their collective wealth in 2025, Bloomberg reported as the year ended on Wednesday.“Obscene greed! While billions of people live in poverty,” human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell responded on X—a social media platform now controlled by Musk, the richest person on Earth. “It’s why we need a global wealt…
The world's wealthiest 500 people added a record $2.2 trillion to their fortunes in 2025, thanks to strong progress in a variety of markets such as shares, cryptocurrencies and precious metals, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.The profits, which raised the combined net worth of the 500 people in the ranking to $11.9 trillion, were strongly driven by Donald Trump's electoral victory at the end of 2024 and were only briefly interrupte…
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The world's richest added a record $2.2 trillion in wealth this year—and they increasingly lost faith in the American Dream
The world’s richest people saw their wealth increase more than ever in 2025, but a funny thing happened along the way. Many of them seemed to decide that their best prospects for the future don’t lie in on the west side of the Atlantic, even though the exceptional performance of U.S. equity markets are driving much of these gains. A growing share of the ultra-elite are quietly voting with their feet against the idea that the American Dream is st…
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