Forbes Billionaires List 25: India 3rd after US & China in billionaires
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According to Forbes’ annual World’s Billionaires list 2025, India has the third highest number of billionaires in the world, with 205 billionaires. The world's largest economy, the United States of America, retained the status of having the largest number of billionaires on Earth, with 902, and China (including Hong Kong) in the second spot with 516 billionaires.
Elon Musk of the United States remained the richest person in the world, while Mukesh Ambani was the richest Indian and the 18th richest person in the world.
About the Forbes World Billionaire List
The American multimedia company Forbes releases the annual World Billionaires list.
In the latest report, it has ranked persons having at least a net worth of $1 billion or more as of 7th March 2025.
Highlights of the Forbes World Billionaires List 2025
- For the first time, more than 3000 billionaires were included in the list. The total number of billionaires in the world was 3028, an increase of 247 as compared to last year..
- The combined wealth of billionaires was $16.1 trillion, an increase of $2 trillion as compared to last year.
- Three people -Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos, all American, have a net worth of more than $ 200 billion.
- Richest Women- American multinational company Walmart heir Alice Walton, with a net worth of $101 billion.
- World’s youngest billionaire - 19-year-old Johannes von Baumbach of Germany. He has inherited the wealth as heir to Germany’s Boehringer Ingelheim, the world’s largest privately owned pharmaceutical company
- Youngest self made Billionaire - 28 year old Scale AI co- founder and CEO Alexandr Wang of America, with net worth of $2 billion.
World's Richest People’s List
Following is the list of the richest people in the world and India, with their net worth and nationalities.
|
Rank |
Name |
Country |
Net Worth |
Description |
|
1 |
Elon Musk |
United States of America |
$342 Billion |
Co-founded Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI. |
|
2 |
Mark Zuckerberg |
United States of America |
$216 Billion |
Founder of Meta (Facebook) |
|
3 |
Jeff Bezos |
United States of America |
$215 Billion |
Founded Amazon in 1994 |
|
4 |
Larry Ellison |
United States of America |
$192 Billion |
Co-founded Oracle. |
|
5 |
Bernard Arnault & family |
France |
$178 Billion |
Owner of fashion company LVMH |
|
6 |
Warren Buffett |
United States of America |
$154 Billion |
owner of Berkshire Hathaway Company. |
|
7 |
Larry Page |
United States of America |
$144 billion |
Co-founder Google |
|
8 |
Sergey Brin |
United States of America |
$138 billion |
Co-founder Google |
|
9 |
Amancio Ortega |
Spain |
$124 billion |
Owner of Zara |
|
10 |
Steve Ballmer |
United States of America |
$118 billion |
Co-founder of Microsoft |
|
13 |
Bill Gates |
United States of America |
$108 Billion |
Co-founder of Microsoft |
|
18 |
Mukesh Ambani |
India |
$92.5 Billion |
CMD Reliance Industries Limited. |
|
28 |
Gautam Adani |
India |
$56.3 Billion |
Chairman of Adani Group |
|
51 |
Shiv Nadar |
India |
$34.5 Billion |
Co-founded the HCL company |
|
97 |
Kumar Mangalam Birla |
India |
$20.9 Billion |
Head of Aditya Birla Group |
|
103 |
Lakshmi Mittal |
British |
$19.2 Billion |
Chairman of ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steel and mining company. |
|
146 |
Vinod Adani |
Cyprus |
$14.9 Billion |
Older brother of Gautam Adani |
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