This is a list of wealthy Americans ranked by net worth. It is based on an annual assessment of wealth and assets by ''
Forbes
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'' and by data from the
Bloomberg Billionaires Index
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.
The
Forbes 400 Richest Americans list has been published annually since 1982. The combined net worth of the 2020 class of the 400 richest
Americans
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was $3.2
trillion
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* 1,000,000,000,000, i.e. one million million, or (ten to the twelfth power), as defined on the short scale. This is now the meaning in both American and British English.
* 1,000,000,000,0 ...
, up from $2.7 trillion in 2017.
As of October 2020, there were 614
billionaire
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s in the United States.
Top 25 richest Americans
According to ''Forbes'', as of January 2022, the 25 wealthiest people in the United States are as follows:
Other wealthy Americans
According to the
Bloomberg Billionaires Index
The ''Bloomberg Billionaires Index'', launched in March 2012, is a daily ranking of the world's 500 richest people based on their net worth. It draws information from "action in the stock market, economic indicators and news reports", features a ...
, each of the following Americans had a net worth of more than $10 billion and less than $40 billion as of March 2018:
According to the
Bloomberg Billionaires Index
The ''Bloomberg Billionaires Index'', launched in March 2012, is a daily ranking of the world's 500 richest people based on their net worth. It draws information from "action in the stock market, economic indicators and news reports", features a ...
, each of the following Americans had a net worth of more than $4 billion and less than $10 billion as of March 2018:
See also
*
The World's Billionaires
''The World's Billionaires'' is an annual ranking by documented net worth of the wealthiest billionaires in the world, compiled and published in March annually by the American business magazine ''Forbes''. The list was first published in March ...
*
List of countries by the number of billionaires
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People
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Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
* SC Germania List, German rugby unio ...
References
External links
Bloomberg Billionaires Index
Forbes 400 - The Richest People in America- 2018 list
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Net worth
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American
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