The Top 10 Richest People In The World | July 2026

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🗓️ 5 July 2026

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Only two of the world’s ten wealthiest people got richer over the past month amid a broad sell-off of tech stocks. One of them is the world’s first trillionaire. Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeswealthteam/article/the-top-ten-richest-people-in-the-world/ Subscribe to FORBES: https://www.youtube.com/user/Forbes?sub_confirmation=1 Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including breaking news, groundbreaking in-depth reported stories, daily digests and more. Plus, members get a front-row seat at members-only events with leading thinkers and doers, access to premium video that can help you get ahead, an ad-light experience, early access to select products including NFT drops and more: https://account.forbes.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=growth_non-sub_paid_subscribe_ytdescript Stay Connected Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes: http://forbes.com Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today on Forbes, the top 10 richest people in the world, July 26.
0:07.0	Elon Musk became the first trillionaire in world history in June after SpaceX went public during the month,
0:15.9	helping boost the fortune of the rocket maker's founder by an estimated $218 billion over the past 30 days,
0:23.0	to an estimated $1.053 trillion as of July 1st at 12 a.m. Eastern Time.
0:29.9	The rest of the top 10 richest people on the planet didn't fare so well, as their net worths
0:35.4	fell by $181 billion combined, amid a broad sell-off of technology
0:40.4	stocks that saw the tech-heavy NASDAQ dropped by nearly 3%, or almost three times the S&P 500's
0:46.9	nearly 1% decline.
0:49.2	But the world's 10 richest people are still fabulously wealthy.
0:53.5	The world's 10 richest people are worth $2.951 trillion combined as of July 1st at 12 a.m. Eastern
1:01.0	time.
1:02.0	As a group, they're $37 billion richer than they were a month ago.
1:07.0	Our top 10 richest people in the world list is as of July 1st, 26 at 12 a.m. Eastern Time.
1:13.5	As a reminder, stock prices fluctuate routinely, so the net worths on our list may change on a daily basis.
1:20.9	Forbes tracks the daily changes on our real-time list of billionaires.
1:25.1	Forbes has been keeping track of the world's billionaires since 1987.
1:28.3	In March 2026, we found 3,428 of them for our annual list.
1:35.3	Elon Musk is now more than three and a half times richer than the world's second wealthiest person,
1:41.3	Google co-founder Larry Page, whose fortune fell by an estimated
1:45.5	$18 billion to $291 billion, as shares of Google's parent company Alphabet fell by 6%.
1:52.9	The fortune of his co-founder, Sergey Brin, meanwhile, declined by an estimated $16 billion to $269 billion.
2:03.0	Despite their losses, Pages and Brin's ranks remained unchanged at number two and number three
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