The Richest In 2025 Edited by Chase Peterson-Withorn with Grace Chung and Matt Durot Another year, another set of records for the world’s billionaire class. Forbes has been scanning the globe for billionaires since 1987. We found 140 of them that first year. It took two decades for their numbers to swell beyond 1,000. Then there were 2,000 in 2017. … Continue reading World’s Billionaires List