The Worlds Billionaires 2025. Elon musk leads world’s richest as billionaires add $1.5 trillion to fortunes in 2023. The bloomberg billionaires index is a daily ranking of the world’s richest people.
Forbes found an unprecedented 2,781 billionaires around the globe for this year’s world’s billionaires list—141 more than in 2023 and 26 more than the previous record, set in. With a $205 billion fortune, elon musk is currently the world’s richest billionaire.