Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Wednesday, June 4th. Today on Forbes, the top 10 richest

people in the world, June 2025. Elon Musk added $36 billion to his fortune in May, as he

stepped down from his distracting role as head of President Trump's Department of Government

Efficiency, or Doge.

That plus Tesla's announcement that the launch of its Robotaxi is scheduled for June, sent

shares of Musk's most valuable asset soaring by 23% over the last month, further cementing

Musk's status as the world's wealthiest person by far, worth an estimated

$423 billion at the start of June.

As a group, the top 10 kickoff June worth $1.9 trillion combined, up $140 billion since May 1.

Our top 10 richest people on Earth list is as of June 1st, 2025, at 12 a.m. Eastern Time.

As a reminder, stock prices fluctuate routinely, so the net worths on our list may change on a daily basis.

Forbes tracks the daily changes on our real-time list of billionaires. Forbes has been

keeping track of the world's billionaires since 1987. In April 2025, we found 3,028 of them

for our annual list. Musk isn't the only billionaire who got richer in May. In fact, eight of the

world's ten wealthiest people

saw their fortunes grow over the last month, including the next biggest gainer, Meta's Mark

Zuckerberg. A $34 billion jump in Zuckerberg's fortune moved him up one spot to the world's

second richest person, with $224 billion, and overtaking Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

The meta CEO grabbed the number two spot after his company's shares soared by 18%, despite

an 11% increase in Amazon's stock price, which boosted Bezos's net worth by $19 billion to an estimated

$220 billion, landing him

in the number three spot. The rise in fortunes of the world's top ten richest came as the

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