Forbes reveals the list of 2025 billionaires. Here are the best 10: NPR

The world billionaires are richer than ever, according to Forbes The annual list of the magazine for the richest people in the world.

The thirty -ninth annual version has come out now and includes 3,028 billionaires, which is the most registered ever Forbes.

Forbes The chief editor, Chase Peterson, said otherwise Morning edition The world’s annual billionaire list has $ 2 trillion in wealth only one year ago. In total, they have an estimated $ 16.1 trillion in wealth.

“It is a great time to be billionaire,” said Peterson.

How does Forbes put this list together?

Peterson said-although more than 100 reporters around the world work on the list, and they are consistent with everything in the companies traded to the public, trying to appreciate private companies, consider cash and investments, and how billionaires can spend their money in their equal time.

“Everything from art, yachts, car groups, dinosaurs’ bone groups and all kinds of crazy things that billionaires possess, ”said Petson. “So it is a type of total value for all their assets, any debt they have.”

Some billionaires open ForbesPeterson said-but for those who do not do it, reporters also look at government records, legal files and external records. They work with information leakage and meet billionaires, their treatments and competitors to try to find “answers to questions that many billionaires may prefer.”

So who leads this year’s list?

The United States has the largest number of billionaires with 902, followed by China and Hong Kong at 516. India has more third with 205.

Here are the 10 best ranked wealth and how they came with their wealth:

1. Elon Musk ($ 342 billion), co -founder of Tesla and Spacex
2. Mark Zuckerberg (216 billion dollars), co -founder of Facebook and CEO of Meta
3. Jeff Bezos (215 billion dollars), the founder of Amazon
4. Larry Ellson (192 billion dollars), co -founder of the Oracle technology giant
5. Bernard Arnolt The family ($ 178 billion), founder and CEO of LVMH, luxury commodity conglomerate, brands like Louis Vuitton and Tiffany & Co.
6. Warren buffet (154 billion dollars), the investor known as “Oracle Omaha”, CEO and President of Berkshire Hathaway
7. Larry Beige (144 billion dollars), co -founder of Google and former CEO of her mother company, Alphabet
8. Sergey Brain (138 billion dollars), the co -founder of Google and former president of Alphabet
9. Amancio Ortega (124 billion dollars), the founder of the Inditex clothes, which sells Zara and various other brands
10. Steve Palmer (118 billion dollars), former CEO of Microsoft

How can the public feel billionaires these days?

Peterson, except for public attitudes, has turned, noting the Wall Street occupation movement in 2011 that followed the great recession of 2008. There is also the right -wing popularity that helped President Trump, the billionaire himself, in two periods. Although former Chancellor Steve Bannon insisted on NPR earlier this year, the president apparently embraced the technical billionaires The victory was not for them.

“Now we have a type of billionaire president who brings a lot of billionaires to his government,” said Peterson-otherwise, “Now we have a kind of billionaire president who brings many billionaires to his government.” “Thus you can see a lot of decline and intellectual response against it. But this also depends on any side of the currency you look at.”

Several billionaires It was used to serve in the second Trump administrationIncluding Elon Musk, Minister of Education Linda McMahon and Minister of Commerce Howard Lottenic.

Musk, whose work with the private government competence unit in charge of cutting off government spending was attracted, some Americans were angry on both sides of the corridor. . Tesla merchants I have faced many protests in recent weeksAlthough the richest man in the world does not offer signs of expanding his work in the federal government.

“Many billionaires do not have a great reputation these days, but on the other hand, they are stronger than ever.”

You can Read the full billionaire list here.

Mansi Khurana and Nia Dumas produced the radio version of this story.