Leading the race is Tesla and Space X Founder Elon Musk. With a current net worth of US$263 billion and an annual growth rate of 129 per cent, Musk is anticipated to reach US$1.38 trillion in the next two years at age 52. It was in fact Jeff Bezos who was set to become the first trillionaire.
Currently, no one has yet claimed trillionaire status, although some of the world's richest individuals may only be a few years away from this milestone..
After all, his wealth was on a seemingly meteoric rise, and he was at one point valued at over $200 billion. "Of the 21 individuals who stand a chance of reaching this phenomenal milestone in their lifetime, Elon Musk is predicted to be the first," said CEO Magazine.
The Pennsylvania PR executive's account balance had swelled to not just a six or seven figure sum, but a ridiculous 17-figure sum of $92,233,720,368,547,800. That's $92 quadrillion – with a bit left over – and meant that he was briefly richest person in the world and the only quadrillionaire on Earth.
It was in fact Jeff Bezos who was set to become the first trillionaire. However, he is now forecasted to reach US$1.06 trillion in 2030, six years behind Musk in sixth place. Gautam Adani and Zhang Yiming are anticipated to be the next to amass more than US$1 trillion after Musk, according to the study.
A trillionaire is an individual with a net worth equal to at least one trillion in U.S. dollars or a similarly valued currency, such as the euro or the British pound. Currently, no one has yet claimed trillionaire status, although some of the world's richest individuals may only be a few years away from this milestone.
If you stacked $100 bills totaling $1 trillion on top of each other, the stack would be 631 miles high. This is what $1 trillion in spending look like.
Who was the richest person ever? The richest person ever is thought to have been an emperor with an accumulation of wealth often described as “unimaginable” or “incalculable.” The title goes to 14th-century African emperor Mansa Musa, and his wealth has been estimated to be the modern day equivalent of $400 billion.
Forbes' real-time data shows that as of June 2023, there are 48 Australian billionaires on the list of the world's richest people.
Now, after a trillion, there comes a number known as quadrillion, and then we have other numbers following it. These numbers are quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, and decillion.
And in fact, there exists yet another billionaire census, done by a research company called Wealth-X, that is considerably less so. In 2021, it counted 927 billionaires in the United States — some 203 more than Forbes did. It doesn't name any of them. Perhaps they're right about these 203 unnamed billionaires.
World Richest Man 2023
The Richest Man in the World, as reported in July 2023, is Bernard Arnault & family, the Chief Executive Officer of LVMH, with a net worth of $207.1 billion. World's Billionaires is an annual ranking granted to the wealthiest billionaires of the world, documented on the basis of their net worth.
Tech mogul Elon Musk is the world's richest person, with an estimated net worth of $239 billion. His estimated fortune peaked at around $340 billion in November 2021 as Tesla shares soared. Musk is currently $38 million richer than LVMH's Bernard Arnault, the world's second-wealthiest person.
Muhammed Awal Mustapha AKA Mompha Junior, is living the Richie Rich life as he owned his first mansion at age six, something most don't manage in a lifetime! Not only that, Mompha also travels the globe in a private jet, has several other mansions and already has an entire fleet of supercars, The Sun reports.
The youngest sibling is more likely to make more money than the rest of the family, according to academics at Birmingham and Reading universities.
Princess Charlotte has been refered as "the richest kid in the world" due to her status as a member of the British royal family, which is one of the wealthiest and most prominent royal families in the world.
Therefore, 7 trillion is equal to 7000000 million.
A trillion is a thousand billion, and it's a million, million. Let's look at a few statistics. A stack of one billion dollars bills would be 67.9 miles high. A trillion dollar bills would reach 67,866 miles into space.
The height of a stack of 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) one dollar bills measures 67,866 miles. This would reach more than one fourth the way from the earth to the moon. The height of a stack of 100,000,000,000,000 (one hundred trillion) one dollar bills measures 6,786,616 miles.
Augustus Caesar — Potentially the richest man of all time, he was the first emperor of the Roman Empire and valued at a rough estimate of $4.6 trillion in today's dollars. He personally owned a fifth of the wealth of an empire that accounted for about 30% of the gross domestic product of the whole world.
Augustus Caesar ($4.6 Trillion)
Now imagine having one-fifth of that amount as your personal wealth. As if that wasn't enough, Stanford professor Ian Morris concluded that Caesar personally owned all of Egypt, for a while.
To probably no one's surprise, Mukesh Ambani tops the list, and it goes on to include eminent personalities like Gautam Adani and Uday Kotak. In this post, we bring you a list of the top 10 richest people in India courtesy of Forbes' Real-Time Billionaires rankings, which keeps an eye out for billionaires globally.