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3,368 ranked, rebuilt 26 Oct

Billionaires list, live and sourced

Every billionaire ranked by net worth, with the date and source behind each number. Build a list, export it, get an alert when a fortune moves.

No. 1Elon Musk$945B

Every number dated and sourced How estimates work

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Richest people in the world

#NameNet worthAs of
1
Elon MuskTesla, SpaceX
$945B Oct 2026Forbes
2
Jeff BezosAmazon
$373B Oct 2026Forbes
3
Larry PageGoogle, Alphabet
$285B Oct 2026Forbes
4
Sergey BrinGoogle, Alphabet
$262B Oct 2026Forbes
5
Michael DellDell Technologies
$256B Oct 2026Forbes
6
Mark ZuckerbergFacebook, Meta Platforms
$253B Oct 2026Forbes
Combined, ranked: $20.35T Full ranking

Movement

Biggest moves in the latest estimates

Change between each person's newest public estimate and the one before it, counted only when the earlier estimate is at most 12 months older. Every bar carries its own window.

All gains and losses
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Largest gainsSee list

Rank Name Net worth
1 Elon Musk 55 $945B +$155Bsince Jun 2026 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
2 Jeff Bezos 62 $373B +$149Bsince Mar 2026 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
7 Jensen Huang 63 $192B +$37.7Bsince Mar 2026 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
18 Changpeng Zhao 49 $115B +$35.8Bsince Feb 2026 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
6 Mark Zuckerberg 42 $253B +$30.8Bsince Mar 2026 15 Oct 2026, Forbes

Largest lossesSee list

Rank Name Net worth
15 Bernard Arnault 77 $118B -$52.6Bsince Mar 2026 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
24 Zhang Yiming 43 $84.0B -$21.5Bsince Sep 2026 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
8 Larry Ellison 82 $170B -$19.7Bsince Mar 2026 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
45 Robin Zeng 58 $45.2B -$17.8Bsince Jan 2026 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
228 Michal Strnad 34 $13.4B -$17.7Bsince Jan 2026 15 Oct 2026, Forbes

Alerts

How many fortunes would have pinged you

Choose a watch list and a threshold. The count comes from the two latest dated public estimates of each person.

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Alert preview, real estimates

Watch list

0 of watched people moved past between their two latest dated estimates. Each would have been one alert email with both dates and the source.

Alerts that would have fired

  • No one in this watch list moved that far. Lower the threshold.

What the plans do

Free rankings are made to read. These are made to work with.

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Know the day a fortune moves

Watch up to 25 people on Pro and 1,000 on Data. When a new estimate lands past your threshold, you get one email with the change, the date and the source.

Alert digest preview, 4 moves within 12 months, built from real data

Export lists with the source of every figure

Filter by country, industry, gender, net worth and self-made, then export CSV or XLSX. Each row carries the estimate date, the publisher and the link. See the billionaires list download in Excel and CSV for the full column set.

namenet_worth_usdas_ofsource_publisher
Alice Walton126,153,842,0002026-10-15Forbes
Françoise Bettencourt Meyers94,282,554,0002026-10-15Forbes
Julia Koch84,627,000,0002026-10-15Forbes
Jacqueline Mars50,348,000,0002026-10-15Forbes
Rafaela Aponte-Diamant46,990,889,0002026-10-15Forbes

Full history, not a single number

Profiles show the latest estimates to everyone. Plans open every dated estimate on record, and Data exports the whole series.

$0 $255B $510B $765B $1.02T 2017 2019 2021 2023 2025 $11.5B, 1 Oct 2016, Forbes $22.3B, 2019, Forbes $151B, 6 Apr 2021, Forbes Real-Time Billionaires $162B, 15 Jul 2021, Forbes Real-Time Billionaires $219B, March 2022, Forbes $270B, 26 Mar 2022, Forbes Real-Time Billionaires $180B, March 2023, Forbes $195B, March 2024, Forbes $342B, March 2025, Forbes $839B, March 2026, Forbes $790B, 12 Jun 2026, Forbes $945B, 15 Oct 2026, Forbes Real-Time Billionaires

An API for your own product

Rankings, profiles, history and daily changes over REST, 50,000 requests a month on Data. Webhooks push the day's changes to your system. Plans and samples are on the billionaires API page.

GET /api/v1/billionaires?country=united-states&min=50
Authorization: Bearer bl_live_...

{"rank": 1, "name": "Elon Musk",
 "net_worth_usd": 944804803000,
 "as_of": "2026-10-15",
 "source": {"publisher": "Forbes Real-Time Billionaires"}}
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Countries

Billionaires by country

All countries

Industries

Where the fortunes come from

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Who uses it

Built for people who earn from knowing who is rich

Private banking and wealth management
Spot liquidity events, a stake sale or a listing, before the next meeting. One introduced client covers many years of the plan.
Luxury and aviation sales
Build territory lists by country and city and export them with sources for the CRM.
Major gifts and fundraising
Research philanthropic billionaires by country and industry, with the giving history in each profile.
Newsrooms and analysts
Cite dated, sourced numbers and pull the history for charts without retyping.
Use cases in detail

Pricing

Plans from $24 a month, billed yearly

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Card payment, cancel any time in the billing portal. No free plan, a one-time demo comes with every account.

Pro

For one advisor, salesperson or journalist who follows a few dozen fortunes.

$24 / month

Billed $288 yearly

  • Alerts on up to 25 billionaires at a time, daily digest of moves above your threshold
  • Up to 10 saved lists at a time, with filters
  • CSV and XLSX export, 2,000 rows a month
  • Full dated history on every profile
  • Source and date of every estimate in exports
For teams and data products

Data

For analyst teams and data products that need the API and full series.

$99 / month

Billed $1,188 yearly

  • Everything in Pro
  • Watch up to 1,000 billionaires at a time, alerts as soon as a new estimate lands
  • Export 25,000 rows a month, full historical series
  • REST API, 50,000 requests a month
  • Webhooks for daily changes
  • 3 seats

Enterprise

For banks, media groups and research firms that run the data across teams.

$249 / month

Billed $2,988 yearly

  • Everything in Data
  • API 500,000 requests a month, export 250,000 rows
  • 15 seats with roles (admin, analyst, viewer)
  • Single sign-on (SAML) for the whole team
  • 99.9% API uptime target
  • Audit log, invoice billing, data processing agreement
  • Licence to use the data in internal reports

Guide

How the billionaires list works

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What counts as a billionaire here

A person enters the ranking when their latest public net worth estimate is above one billion US dollars, comes from an established publisher and is dated on or after 1 September 2026, the date of the current public ranking snapshot. Older estimates stay visible on the profile with their date, and the person is listed as not ranked until a newer public figure appears.

Why each number has a date and a source

Fortunes are estimated by different publishers at different times. Mixing them without dates hides how old a figure is. We keep the date and the source link of every estimate and show both next to the number, in the table, on the profile and in every export.

How rankings by country and industry are made

Each person is listed under the country they are mainly associated with in public rankings and under the industry their fortune comes from. Country pages appear once three people are ranked there. See billionaires by country and billionaires by industry.

Gains and losses

The change column compares a person's latest estimate with the one before it. Both dates are shown, because a gain over three years and a gain over three months are different stories. The biggest gains and biggest losses pages sort by that change.

Profiles below the billion line

A few profiles describe entrepreneurs whose fortunes are far smaller than the ranking threshold, such as Szymon Susz, a Polish founder in software, online marketing and AI. They carry an estimate but no rank.

Taking the list into a spreadsheet or CRM

Reading the ranking is open to everyone. Teams that need the rows in Excel, Google Sheets or a CRM use the billionaires list download, which exports any filtered list as CSV or XLSX with the date and source of each figure. Private banks and family office teams start from the ultra high net worth individuals list, the billionaire tier of the UHNW market. Advisers who prospect a territory use the billionaire prospecting tool to filter, export and watch their shortlist. Nonprofit major gifts offices pair a household screening tool with this list through wealth screening software for nonprofits.

Questions people ask

Who is the richest person in the world?
Elon Musk is first in the BillionaireList ranking with a latest public estimate of $945 billion dated October 2026, according to Forbes Real-Time Billionaires.
Where do your numbers come from?
From public sources only: published rankings, company filings and reports, and press. Every figure is stored with its date and a link to its source, and both are shown next to the number.
Forbes and Bloomberg are free. Why pay for BillionaireList?
Reading our ranking and profiles is free too. The plans pay for what free lists do not do: export filtered lists with sources, alert you when a new estimate moves, keep the full history and serve it through an API.
How fresh is the data?
The ranking is rebuilt every day from the stored estimates and the public record is re-checked every week. Each figure shows its own date, so you always see how fresh it is.
Can I use the data in client reports?
Yes on the Data and Enterprise plans, for internal and client reports. Reselling the dataset is not allowed.
Is it legal to publish this?
We publish only facts that are already public about public figures, with the source of each one, and every profile has a correction route that requires evidence.
Can I cancel?
Yes, any time in the billing portal. Payments are final and access runs to the end of the paid period.

Know the day a fortune moves

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