The Forbes published "The Definitive Ranking of the Wealthiest Americans In 2022". And here is the top 200 list including additional information on each of the billionaires.

About Dataset

This dataset contains the top 200 richest American based on their net worth.

Columns Attributes

| Column | Meaning | | -- | -- | | rank | their rank | | name | their name | | net worth | their net worth | | age | their age | | title | their title (e.g. CEO, Chairman etc.) | | source of wealth | the source of how they've managed to get this much money | | self made score | shows how far each of these billionaires has climbed to make it to the top. According to Forbes, The score ranges from 1 to 10, with 1 through 5 indicating someone who inherited some or all of his or her fortune; while 6 through 10 are for those who built their company or established a fortune on his or her own. | | philanthropy score | this score shows how much these billionaires donates on nonprofits foundations | | residence | their residence | | marital status | their marital status | | children | their children | | education | their education |

Methodology

This dataset was acquired using a web scraping tool called Beautiful soup and scraped Forbes website

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This dataset is about books. It has 2 rows and is filtered where the book is Millionaire traders : how everyday people are beating Wall Street at its own game. It features 7 columns including author, publication date, language, and book publisher.

As of March 2025, Elon Musk had a net worth valued at 328.5 billion U.S. dollars, making him the richest man in the world. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos followed in second, with Marc Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, in third. The list is dominated by Americans, and Alice Walton and Francoise Bettencourt Meyers are the only women among the 20 richest people worldwide.