The world's richest people their wealth in 2025. According to the investment bank UBS, the 500 richest people on Earth an additional $2.2 trillion last year. Their stratospheric earnings their collective net worth to $11.9 trillion. The Bloomberg Billionaires Index reports that eight multi-billionaires the mega-rich list and for a quarter of the gains. These Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, and Larry Page. The Guardian newspaper the gains were "" by Donald Trump's 2024 election victory, "and markets in cryptocurrencies, equities and metals".
Many organizations were less than impressed at the accumulation of the world's wealth in so few hands. The international charity Oxfam the growing disparity in wealth. It said: "Inequality a deliberate policy choice. Despite record wealth at the top, public wealth is , even , and debt distress is . Inequality away life opportunities and rights from the majority of citizens, sparking poverty, hunger, resentment, distrust, and instability." British climate scientist Bill McGuire that "if the monstrous political-economic system that is our planet...and its people apart isn't to its knees, then humanity will ".
