Billionaires | Electronics Weekly

The number of billionaires  passed 3,000 for the first time in 2025 and has climbed to more than 3,400 this year.

The $100 billion club had a record 20 members while five had more than $200 billion  – Elon Musk, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg – with Musk’s wealth hitting $839 billion.

This year’s 3,428 billionaires had a collective fortune of $20.1 trillion, or $5.9 billion each.

This is in contrast to 2013, when average billionaire wealth stood at just $3.8 billion.

While billionaires form the tip of global wealth inequality, they themselves exhibit an unequal distribution of wealth, with the above-mentioned 20 centibillionaires worth $3.8 trillon combined, which is more than the “bottom” 2,000 billionaires on the list own collectively.