As of April 2025, Elon Musk was estimated as the wealthiest person in the United States with a net worth of around 342 billion dollars. Richest people in the United States - additional information Every year since 1982, the American business magazine Forbes has been compiling lists of the 400 richest people in the United States, known as the “Forbes 400.” In addition to that, since 1987, the publication has also been compiling a ranking of the 500 richest people in the world (excluding royalty and dictators), as well as more specialized tops, such as “World's Most Powerful Women,” “America's Richest Families,” “Most Valuable Brands” or “30 Under 30,” which focuses on young entrepreneurs from various fields which have gained millions in the past year by the use of social media, technical innovations and generally new and fresh approaches to business.

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This dataset contains the list of Top 100 Richest People in the World Column Information:-

Name - Person Name NetWorth - His/Her Networth Age - Person Age Country - The country person belongs to Source - Information Source Industry - Expertise Domain

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As of March 2024, California was the U.S. state with most billionaires, with *** billionaires calling the state home. New York was second, with *** resident billionaires.

With a net worth of 342 billion U.S. dollars, Elon Musk, the cofounder of seven companies, such as electric car maker Tesla and the rocket producer SpaceX, was the wealthiest man in the world in March 2025. The wealthiest people in the world Marc Zuckerberg, the cofounder of Meta Platforms, came second with a wealth of 235.6 billion U.S. dollars. Amazon-founder Jeff Bezos followed in third. All the 10 richest people in the world were men. Wealth distribution worldwide As of 2022, one percent of people held nearly half of the world's combined wealth. Moreover, 2.8 billion of the world's population hold a combined wealth of less than 10,000 U.S. dollars, compared to 59 million people having a combined wealth of 1 billion dollars or more, underlining the vast inequalities around the world. Where do the most affluent people live? Most millionaires live in the United States, while Hong Konk was the city hosting the largest number of high net worth individuals worldwide. The country with the highest number of billionaires is China.

This dataset provides a synthetic overview of the 1,000 wealthiest individuals in the world, offering insights into the distribution of wealth across industries and regions. It is designed to help analysts, researchers, and data enthusiasts explore global wealth trends, industry dominance, and regional wealth concentration.

Whether you're conducting market research, financial analysis, or data modeling, this dataset serves as a valuable resource for understanding the characteristics of the world's top billionaires.

📊 Key Features: Name 👤: The name of the billionaire. Country 🌍: Country of residence or primary business operation. Industry 🏭: Industry in which the individual has built their wealth. Net Worth (in billions) 💵: Estimated net worth in billions of USD. Company 🏢: The primary company or business associated with the billionaire. ⚠️ Important Note: This dataset is 100% synthetic and does not contain real financial or personal data. It is artificially generated for educational, analytical, and research purposes.

According to the Hurun Global Rich List 2025, the United States housed the highest number of billionaires worldwide in 2025. In detail, there were *** billionaires living in the United States as of January that year. By comparison, *** billionaires resided in China. India, the United Kingdom, and Germany were also the homes of a significant number of billionaires that year. United States has regained its first place As the founder and exporter of consumer capitalism, it is no surprise that the United States is home to a large number of billionaires. Although China had briefly overtaken the U.S. recently, the United States has reclaimed its position as the country with the most billionaires in the world. Moreover, North America leads the way in terms of the highest number of ultra high net worth individuals – those with a net worth of more than ***** million U.S. dollars. The prominence of Europe and North America is a reflection of the higher degree of economic development in those states. However, this may also change as China and other emerging economies continue developing. Female billionaires Moreover, the small proportion of female billionaires does little to counter critics claiming the global economy is dominated by an elite comprised mainly of men. On the list of the richest people in the world, only *** were women. Moreover, recent political discourse has put a great amount of attention on the wealth held by the super-rich, with the wealth distribution of the global population being heavily unequal.

The richest people in the world, yearly rank from 2002 to 2021

This dataset contains 200 rows and 7 columns.

The World's Billionaires is an annual ranking by documented net worth of the world's wealthiest billionaires compiled and published in March annually by the American business magazine Forbes. The list was first published in March 1987. The total net worth of each individual on the list is estimated and is cited in United States dollars, based on their documented assets and accounting for debt. Royalty and dictators whose wealth comes from their positions are excluded from these lists. This ranking is an index of the wealthiest documented individuals, excluding and ranking against those with wealth that is not able to be completely ascertained. (wikipedia)

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.

Graph and download economic data for Share of Net Worth Held by the Top 1% (99th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) (WFRBST01134) from Q3 1989 to Q2 2025 about net worth, wealth, percentile, Net, and USA.

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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The Gilded Age, taking place roughly from the 1870s until the outbreak of World War I (1914-1918), was a period of unprecedented rapid economic growth in the United States. The economy of the U.S. was dominated in many sectors by large industrial monopolies, such as Standard Oil, Carnegie Steel, and American Tobacco. The owner-managers of these firms came to be known as the 'robber barons', as they were seen as exploiting their companies' dominant market positions in order to enrich themselves. To this day, they remain some of the wealthiest people in American history - when the historical fortunes are adjusted to 2006 U.S. dollars, the current fortunes of today's richest U.S. residents such as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are still less than those of Rockefeller and Carnegie. The Sherman Act, passed by congress in 1890, banned monopolies that put unreasonable restrictions on trade. Combined with the end of the first era of globalization, brought on by the events of World War I, this marked the end of the era of dominance by large monopolies in the United States.

Cleaned dataset from the Billionaires Statistic Dataset (2023) that can be found here.

The code I used to clean and re-structure the data is also here.

First things first: a big shout-out to Nidula Elgiriyewithana for providing the original data.

As with it, this dataset contains various information about the world's wealthiest persons in different columns that can be grouped into three different types:

• Business-related information. These columns contain data about the industry in which the billionaires' operate, their source of wealth, total wealth and position they occupy in the ranking.
• Personal information. Such as name, age, nationality, country and city of residence.
• Economic activity information. These columns are related to the country in which the billionaire resides and provide different economic indicators like GDP, education enrollment or Consumer Price Index (CPI).

Column names

• position. Ranking of the billionaire measured by their wealth.
• wealth. The wealth of the billionaire measured in $.
• industry. Industry in which the billionaire's operates their businesses.
• full_name. Complete name of the billionaire.
• age. The age of the billionaire.
• country_of_residence. Country in which the billionaire resides.
• city_of_residence. City in which the billionaire resides.
• source. The source of the billionaire's wealth.
• citizenship. The country of citizenship of the billionaire.
• gender. The gender of the billionaire.
• birth_date. The birth date of the billionaire.
• last_name. The last name of the billionaire.
• first_name. The first name of the billionaire.
• residence_state. State in which the billionaire resides (only for billionaires who reside in the U.S.).
• residence_region. Region in which the billionaire resides (only for billionaires who reside in the U.S.).
• birth_year. The birth year of the billionaire.
• birth_month. The birth month of the billionaire.
• birth_day. The birth data of the billionaire.
• cpi_country. Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the billionaire's country.
• cpi_change_country. CPI change for the billionaire's country.
• gdp_country. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in $ for the billionaire's country.
• g_tertiary_ed_enroll. Enrollment in tertiary education in the billionaire's country.
• g_primary_ed_enroll. Enrollment in primary education in the billionaire's country.
• life_expectancy. Life expectancy in the billionaire's country.
• tax_revenue. Tax revenue in the billionaire's country.
• tax_rate. Total tax rate in the billionaire's country.
• country_pop. Population of the billionaire's country.
• country_lat. Latitude coordinate of the billionaire's country.
• country_long. Longitude coordinate of the billionaire's country.
• continent. Continent in which the country of the billionaire's residence is located.

Potential analyses

• Analyze which industries contain the biggest groups of billionaires overall and in different countries.
• Explore number of billionaires and total wealth across countries and continents and display the result in a map.
• Focus on personal information columns such as age or gender to explore the distribution of billionaires from this perspective.
• Discover if countries' economic indicators have any impact in the presence of billionaires.
• The U.S. is the country with most billionaires presented in the dataset and also the only one with attributes in the residence_state and residence_region columns. This makes the American billionaires a good focus for a specific analysis.

Bonus

If you want a challenge, you can create a dashboard using tools such as Plotly to dynamically visualize the data using one or different attributes (such as industry, age or country). I did it, leave the link below in case you want to investigate:

Dashboard notebook here

If you find this dataset informative or inspirational, a vote is appreciated for others to easily discover value in it 💎💰

In 2023, there were around 748 billionaires in the United States. This was a slight increase from the previous year's total of 704, and a significant increase from the 66 billionaires in 1990.

This data collection focuses on the federal budget deficit and on issues dealing with the rich and the poor in America. Respondents were asked if they approved of the way George Bush, Democrats in Congress, and Republicans in Congress were handling the the federal budget deficit, and who was more to blame for the larger deficit. Additionally, respondents were asked how much money it takes to be rich in the United States, whether they would want to be rich, how likely it was that they would ever be rich or poor, whether the percentage of Americans who are rich was increasing, and whether they respected and admired rich people. Other questions asked respondents if they characterized rich people as more likely to be honest, snobbish, intelligent, and a variety of other traits, whether respondents would be more or less likely to vote for a candidate who was a millionaire/self-made millionaire, and which political party better represented the interests of poor, rich, and middle class people. Background information on respondents includes political alignment, 1988 presidential vote choice, registered voter status, education, age, religion, social class, marital status, number of people in the household, labor union membership, employment status, race, income, sex, and state/region of residence.

Graph and download economic data for Net Worth Held by the Bottom 50% (1st to 50th Wealth Percentiles) (WFRBLB50107) from Q3 1989 to Q2 2025 about net worth, wealth, percentile, Net, and USA.

About the Ranking

The World's Billionaires is an annual ranking by documented net worth of the wealthiest billionaires in the world, compiled and published in March annually by the American business magazine Forbes. The list was first published in March 1987. The total net worth of each individual on the list is estimated and is cited in United States dollars, based on their documented assets and accounting for debt and other factors. Royalty and dictators whose wealth comes from their positions are excluded from these lists. This ranking is an index of the wealthiest documented individuals, excluding any ranking of those with wealth that is not able to be completely ascertained.

Forbes Methodology

Each year, Forbes employs a team of over 50 reporters from a variety of countries to track the activity of the world's wealthiest individuals and sometimes groups or families – who share wealth. Preliminary surveys are sent to those who may qualify for the list. According to Forbes, they received three types of responses – some people try to inflate their wealth, others cooperate but leave out details, and some refuse to answer any questions. Business deals are then scrutinized and estimates of valuable assets – land, homes, vehicles, artwork, etc. – are made. Interviews are conducted to vet the figures and improve the estimate of an individual's holdings. Finally, positions in a publicly traded stock are priced to market on a date roughly a month before publication. Privately held companies are priced by the prevailing price-to-sales or price-to-earnings ratios. Known debt is subtracted from assets to get a final estimate of an individual's estimated worth in United States dollars. Since stock prices fluctuate rapidly, an individual's true wealth and ranking at the time of publication may vary from their situation when the list was compiled.

• The billionaires satatistic dataset 2023 is a ranking of billionaires from 1st (with the highest wealth) to the 2640th (the less wealthy) in year 2023. the columns of the dataset are some attributs of the billionaires as follow:

rank: The ranking of the billionaire in terms of wealth. finalWorth: The final net worth of the billionaire in Million U.S. dollars. category: The category or industry in which the billionaire's business operates. personName: The full name of the billionaire. age: The age of the billionaire. country: The country in which the billionaire resides. city: The city in which the billionaire resides. source: The source of the billionaire's wealth. industries: The industries associated with the billionaire's business interests. countryOfCitizenship: The country of citizenship of the billionaire. organization: The name of the organization or company associated with the billionaire. selfMade: Indicates whether the billionaire is self-made (True/False). status: "D" represents self-made billionaires (Founders/Entrepreneurs) and "U" indicates inherited or unearned wealth. gender: The gender of the billionaire. birthDate: The birthdate of the billionaire. lastName: The last name of the billionaire. firstName: The first name of the billionaire. title: The title or honorific of the billionaire. date: The date of data collection. state: The state in which the billionaire resides. residenceStateRegion: The region or state of residence of the billionaire. birthYear: The birth year of the billionaire. birthMonth: The birth month of the billionaire. birthDay: The birth day of the billionaire. cpi_country: Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the billionaire's country. cpi_change_country: CPI change for the billionaire's country. gdp_country: Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the billionaire's country. gross_tertiary_education_enrollment: Enrollment in tertiary education in the billionaire's country. gross_primary_education_enrollment_country: Enrollment in primary education in the billionaire's country. life_expectancy_country: Life expectancy in the billionaire's country. tax_revenue_country_country: Tax revenue in the billionaire's country. total_tax_rate_country: Total tax rate in the billionaire's country. population_country: Population of the billionaire's country. latitude_country: Latitude coordinate of the billionaire's country. longitude_country: Longitude coordinate of the billionaire's country.

In the first quarter of 2025, almost ********** of the total wealth in the United States was owned by the top 10 percent of earners. In comparison, the lowest ** percent of earners only owned *** percent of the total wealth. Income inequality in the U.S. Despite the idea that the United States is a country where hard work and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps will inevitably lead to success, this is often not the case. In 2024, *** percent of U.S. households had an annual income under 15,000 U.S. dollars. With such a small percentage of people in the United States owning such a vast majority of the country’s wealth, the gap between the rich and poor in America remains stark. The top one percent The United States was the country with the most billionaires in the world in 2025. Elon Musk, with a net worth of *** billion U.S. dollars, was among the richest people in the United States in 2025. Over the past 50 years, the CEO-to-worker compensation ratio has exploded, causing the gap between rich and poor to grow, with some economists theorizing that this gap is the largest it has been since right before the Great Depression.

Context

The list of richest Indians by net worth based on an annual assessment of wealth and assets compiled and published by Forbes magazine. As of April 2023, India has 167 billionaires, which put the country third in the world, after the United States and China. Mukesh Ambani the chairman and largest shareholder of Reliance Industries, has been the richest Indian for 14 consecutive years. He is currently world's 10th richest person in the world according to Forbes. Savitri Jindal is currently India's richest woman, topping the list at 6th position.

Content

The Dataset contains the following columns:

1. Rank
2. Name
3. Net Worth USD
4. Company
5. Sources of Wealth

Acknowledgement

The source of data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indians_by_net_worth.

Jeff Bezos was the richest person in tech in the United States in 2020, with a net worth of *** billion U.S. dollars. Bill Gates remained in second position, with a net worth of ** billion U.S. dollars.