There are now more than 3,000 billionaires around the world, and they’re richer than ever, worth a combined $16.1 trillion dollars. But the distribution of this extreme affluence is far from equal. Just three nations account for more than 50% of all billionaires and billionaire wealth, while 17 other countries each have just one citizen in the three-comma club.
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00:00There are now more than 3,000 billionaires around the world, and they're richer than
00:05ever, worth a combined $16.1 trillion.
00:09But the distribution of this extreme affluence is far from equal.
00:13Just three nations account for more than 50% of all billionaires and billionaire wealth,
00:18while 17 other countries each have just one citizen in the three-comma club.
00:23Nearly a third of this year's list hails from the United States, which remains the
00:27country with the most billionaire citizens by far.
00:30A record 902 American billionaires made the ranking, up from 813 last year, worth a record
00:38$6.8 trillion combined.
00:41All but two of the world's 15 centibillionaires are U.S. citizens, including Elon Musk, whose
00:47estimated net worth is $342 billion.
00:52Musk reclaimed the title of the world's richest person from Frenchman Bernard Arnault of LVMH
00:57for the first time since the 2022 list.
01:01American tech titans Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, with an estimated $216 billion net worth,
01:08Jeff Bezos of Amazon, with an estimated $215 billion net worth, and Larry Ellison of Oracle,
01:17with an estimated $192 billion net worth, round out the list's top five.
01:23China boasts the second-highest number of billionaires once again, with 450 on this
01:28year's list, who are worth $1.7 trillion combined.
01:32That's up from 406 Chinese billionaires last year, but still short of the record 495 that
01:38made the 2023 list with a combined net worth of $1.7 trillion, before a property market
01:44crash and stock market rout erased nearly $400 billion of Chinese wealth over the next year.
01:51Despite the U.S. government's attempts to force a sale of TikTok to an American owner,
01:56Zhang Yiming, who co-founded the social media app's parent company ByteDance, overtook bottled
02:01water magnate Zhang Shengshan to become China's richest person in March, after ByteDance bought
02:07shares at a $312 billion valuation, boosting Zhang's fortune to an estimated $65.5 billion.
02:16The world's most populous country, India, still ranks third, with 205 billionaires,
02:22up from 200 last year, worth $941 billion combined, which is down from $954 billion last year.
02:30That's because the country's two richest people, Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Andani,
02:36both saw their fortunes fall by more than $20 billion,
02:39as shares of their closely held conglomerates cratered.