Overview
- Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index shows the 500 richest people added $2.2 trillion in 2025, lifting their combined wealth to about $11.9 trillion.
- Roughly a quarter of the year’s increase came from just eight people, including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Dell, and Jensen Huang.
- The biggest individual moves included Elon Musk gaining about $190 billion to roughly $623 billion and Larry Ellison adding about $58 billion to about $250 billion, according to Bloomberg’s tally.
- The 10 richest are now worth more than Amazon after a combined $579 billion jump last year, Business Insider reported from the index, while some fortunes fell, including a $12.6 billion drop for Manuel Villar after an 80% share plunge at Golden MV Holdings.
- Oxfam condemned the surge, saying the $2.2 trillion would have been enough to lift 3.8 billion people out of poverty.