In 2023, 18 of the 3,323 billionaires worldwide had assets amounting to more than 50 billion U.S. dollars. On the other hand, almost 1,700 had a fortune between one and two billion dollars. As of March 2025, Elon Musk was the richest person in the world.
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Wealth-X, & Altrata. (January 13, 2025). Wealth distribution of billionaires around the world in 2023 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved June 07, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/299061/billionaires-wealth-worldwide/
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