Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg Lead Forbes' List of World's Richest People in 2025.
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On April 02, 2025, Forbes released its '39th Annual World's Billionaires List,' the definitive ranking of the world's richest people. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, topped the list with a net worth of USD 342 billion (bn).
- He is followed by Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, with a net worth of USD 216 bn, and at the 3rd place is Jeff Bezos, chairman and founder of Amazon.
- The 2025 list features 3,028 billionaires, the most since the list's inception in 1987. The world's wealthiest people are collectively worth a record-breaking $16.1 trillion.
- Mukesh Ambani remains India's richest person and Asia's wealthiest, ranking 18th globally with a fortune of $92.5 billion from Reliance Industries.
Main Point :- (i) Gautam Adani, chairman of the Adani Group, follows at 28th place with $56.3 billion. He is the fourth richest Asian, behind TikTok's Zhang Yiming (23rd, $65.5 billion) and Nongfu Spring's Zhong Shanshan (26th, $57.7 billion).
(ii) Jensen Huang, the CEO and co-founder of Nvidia, presently positioned at the 10th rank, has entered the ranks of the top 10 richest people for the first time and US topped the list with a record of 902 billionaires, followed by China with 516 billionaires and India at the 3rd position with 205 billionaires.
(iii) The richest woman of all is Walmart heir Alice Walton, whose fortune stands at an estimated $101 billion. She reclaims the title from French L'Oréal heiress Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, who now ranks second, at $81.6 billion.
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