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.

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. in recent years, 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 20 richest people in the world, only one was a woman. 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.

Graph and download economic data for Net Worth Held by the Top 1% (99th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) (WFRBLT01026) from Q3 1989 to Q1 2025 about net worth, wealth, percentile, Net, and USA.

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.

In 2023, roughly 1.49 billion adults worldwide had a net worth of less than 10,000 U.S. dollars. By comparison, 58 million adults had a net worth of more than one million U.S. dollars in the same year. Wealth distribution The distribution of wealth is an indicator of economic inequality. The United Nations says that wealth includes the sum of natural, human, and physical assets. Wealth is not synonymous with income, however, because having a large income can be depleted if one has significant expenses. In 2023, nearly 1,700 billionaires had a total wealth between one to two billion U.S. dollars. Wealth worldwide China had the highest number of billionaires in 2023, with the United States following behind. That same year, New York had the most billionaires worldwide.

David Thomson and family had a total net worth of 72.7 billion U.S. dollars, representing the richest in Canada in 2024. Changpeng Zhao, co-founder and executive chairman of Binance, is the second-richest person in Canada, with a net worth of 63.7 U.S. dollars.

Income share held by highest 20% in Norway was reported at 36.2 % in 2022, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Norway - Income share held by highest 20% - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

Graph and download economic data for Net Change in Total Assets and Liabilities by Quintiles of Income Before Taxes: Highest 20 Percent (81st to 100th Percentile) (CXUCHGASLILB0106M) from 1990 to 2023 about change, percentile, liabilities, tax, Net, assets, income, and USA.

Income share held by highest 20% in Sweden was reported at 39.1 % in 2022, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Sweden - Income share held by highest 20% - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

Graph and download economic data for Net Change in Total Assets by Quintiles of Income Before Taxes: Highest 20 Percent (81st to 100th Percentile) (CXUCHGASSETLB0106M) from 1984 to 2023 about change, percentile, tax, Net, assets, income, and USA.

The ratio of the top 20 percents' income to that of the bottom ** percent of earners is a common way to measure income inequality. In the European Union, this ratio was **** before taxes and **** after taxes in 2023. Many European countries are known for their progressive taxation systems and strong social benefits, meaning that post-taxes and social transfers, their income inequality is much lower than what it is in gross terms. This is particularly the case for countries such as *******, which has the fourth-highest gross income inequality between its highest earners and lowest earners, but has the ninth-highest inequality ratio when taxes and transfers are factored in. The country with the smallest disparity between high and low earners in Europe was ******* in 2023, with a gross ratio of **** and a net ratio of ****

A dataset listing the 20 richest cities in Illinois for 2024, including information on rank, city, county, population, average income, and median income.

Income share held by highest 20% in Indonesia was reported at 43.6 % in 2024, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Indonesia - Income share held by highest 20% - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

Income share held by highest 20% in Russia was reported at 42.4 % in 2021, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Russia - Income share held by highest 20% - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

As of 2019, ** percent of millionaires in the United States had a net worth of between *********** and ********************** U.S. dollars. On the other end of the scale, **** percent of millionaires had a net worth of over *** million U.S. dollars.

Income share held by highest 20% in Thailand was reported at 41.5 % in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Thailand - Income share held by highest 20% - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

NFCorpus: 20 generated queries (BEIR Benchmark)

This HF dataset contains the top-20 synthetic queries generated for each passage in the above BEIR benchmark dataset.

DocT5query model used: BeIR/query-gen-msmarco-t5-base-v1 id (str): unique document id in NFCorpus in the BEIR benchmark (corpus.jsonl). Questions generated: 20 Code used for generation: evaluate_anserini_docT5query_parallel.py

Below contains the old dataset card for the BEIR benchmark.

  Dataset Card for BEIR… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/income/scidocs-top-20-gen-queries.

Income share held by highest 20% in Iran was reported at 43.3 % in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Iran - Income share held by highest 20% - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on June of 2025.

Income share held by highest 20% in Italy was reported at 40.5 % in 2022, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Italy - Income share held by highest 20% - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

To show how they change over time, we included the last 5 years of highest estimated expenditures.