What We Know About America’s Billionaires: 1,135 and Counting

What We Know About America’s Billionaires: 1,135 and Counting

“Billionaire” evokes tech founders such as Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates, but there is a large and growing group of people worth at least $1 billion in small towns and big cities that rarely make the headlines.

America's 1,135 Billionaires: Which Industries Made Them Rich?

America remains the world's undisputed capital of billionaires, home to 1,135 ultra-wealthy individuals, collectively worth an estimated £4.5 trillion as of 2025. This staggering concentration of wealth now exceeds the GDP of most developed nations, raising fresh questions about how these fortunes were built and where future wealth creation might emerge. The latest Forbes World's Billionaires List reveals that the US commands nearly 30% of the w…

America’s Billionaires: 1,135 and Counting.

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