The Top 10 Richest People In The World (February 2025)
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🗓️ 4 February 2025
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This ultra-rich group is now worth more than $2 trillion. At least five of them attended Donald Trump’s inauguration.
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| 0:00.0 | Here is your Forbes Daily Briefing for Tuesday, February 4th. |
| 0:04.9 | Today on Forbes, the top 10 richest people in the world, February 2025. |
| 0:12.0 | Lifted by a post-presidential inauguration surge in stocks, the world's 10 richest people |
| 0:17.3 | got a collective $107 billion wealthier in the past month. Altogether, they are worth |
| 0:24.0 | $2.03 trillion per Forbes estimates. Our top 10 richest people on Earth list is as of February 1st, |
| 0:32.5 | 2025 at 12 a.m. Eastern Time. As a reminder, stock prices fluctuate routinely, so the net worths on our |
| 0:40.1 | list may change on a daily basis. Forbes tracks the daily changes on our real-time list of |
| 0:45.7 | billionaires. Forbes has been keeping track of the world's billionaires since 1987. In April |
| 0:51.3 | 2024, we found 2,781 of them for our annual list. This month, as of February 1st, |
| 0:59.4 | Elon Musk is still the world's wealthiest person, worth a remarkable $421 billion. It's the second |
| 1:07.1 | month in a row he started off with a fortune greater than $400 billion, |
| 1:16.3 | a level no other billionaire has reached in the nearly four decades Forbes has been tracking the world's wealthiest people. |
| 1:18.9 | Musk reclaimed the title of the richest person in the world in late May, 2024. |
| 1:23.7 | His fortune surpassed $400 billion in December. |
| 1:32.3 | The biggest gainer in the past month was META CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who overtook Larry Ellison to become the world's third richest. |
| 1:35.3 | He is now worth nearly $238 billion. |
| 1:39.3 | Zuckerberg's fortune jumped by $35 billion in the past month, as meta shares popped up by 16%. |
| 1:45.7 | Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, were featured guests at Donald Trump's inauguration |
| 1:51.1 | on January 20th, standing next to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his fiancé, Lauren Sanchez, |
| 1:57.3 | and just feet away from Musk. Also in the crowd there, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, now ranked |
| 2:03.8 | number seven, and LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault, ranked number five. For those counting at home, |
| 2:10.5 | at least five of the top ten richest people in the world attended President Trump's |
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