World’s Top 10 Billionaires: Most Are American

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Among the world’s top 10 billionaires in 2026, Elon Musk is in first place with $714 billion, followed by Larry Page, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, Bernard Arnault & family, Jensen Huang, Warren Buffett, and Amancio Ortega.

The world’s top 10 billionaires have a combined wealth of around $2.58 trillion—more than the GDP of most countries on our planet. And eight of these billionaires are from the United States, with the other two from France and Spain.

Below is a list of the top 10 richest people in the world as of January 6, 2026, eight of whom are from the United States.

(Source: Visual Capitalist)

Billionaire Elon Musk is the first person in history to surpass the $700 billion mark, and the largest source of his wealth is his billion-dollar stake in space company SpaceX.

After Musk, Google co-founder Larry Page is in second place with a net worth of over $257 billion. In 2025, shares of Alphabet (Google’s parent company) surged 63%, significantly increasing his wealth.

Meanwhile, Big Tech company Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is in eighth place with $162.5 billion. His wealth was $4.7 billion in 2020 and has grown at an astonishing rate since then. According to Visual Capitalist, Nvidia’s share price has risen more than 4,200% in the past seven years, making Huang’s wealth grow rapidly and placing him among the top billionaires.

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