The year 2025 clearly reflects the inequalities that exist even in the world of the super rich. Elon Musk saw his fortune rise from 333.2 billion dollars to 754.4 billion dollars in one year. This is more money than the second richest person in the world accumulates and more than the Top10, where Elon Musk is included, managed to earn in 2025.
2025 was a huge year for Elon Musk. Not because he continues to be the richest in the world but because of the fortune he managed to accumulate during this year. During this period of time he managed to enrich himself by over 333.2 billion dollars (282.6 billion euros at the current exchange rate), according to the Forbes ranking. If the number is impressive, it does not reflect the feat achieved by Elon Musk in 12 months.
The 333.2 billion dollars (282.6 billion euros) that Elon Musk raised in 2025 is more than the fortune of the second richest person in the world. This is the co-founder of Google, Larry Page, who has a fortune valued at 254.7 billion dollars (216 billion euros), according to Forbes.
Elon Musk managed to surpass other standards in one year. The leader of Tesla (electric vehicles) and SpaceX (rockets and satellites) was the first in history to see his fortune surpass 500 billion dollars (424 billion euros), 600 billion dollars (508.8 billion euros), and 700 billion dollars (593.6 billion euros).
But even this is not enough to show how extraordinary this feat is. In history, only one person, besides Elon Musk, has managed to have a fortune of more than 400 billion dollars (339.2 billion euros). It was Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle. This allowed Larry Ellison to momentarily become, in September, the richest man in the world, surpassing Elon Musk. The feat was achieved due to the 30% increase that Oracle had on the stock market on September 17, increasing Ellison’s fortune to 400.9 billion dollars (340 billion euros). However, during the course of the year, technology lost all of these gains, which ended up reducing Larry Ellison’s wealth to 250.3 billion dollars (212.2 billion euros).
And there is yet another notable fact in what Elon Musk managed to achieve in 2025. The world’s top 10 richest people, in 2025, reached 729.2 billion dollars (618.4 billion euros), according to Forbes. Even so, it is not enough to reach Elon Musk’s fortune, which is valued at 754.4 billion dollars (639.8 billion euros).
The appreciation of Elon Musk’s fortune in 2025 was due to several factors. One of which was the increase in SpaceX’s valuation to 800 billion dollars (687 billion euros), which made it the most valuable unlisted company in the world in December, and also the decision on December 19 by a Delaware Court that reinstated Tesla stock options worth 139 billion dollars (118 billion euros) to Elon Musk, which had been canceled last year.
Four days later, on December 19, Elon Musk saw his fortune increase to 749 billion dollars (639 billion euros) due to the Delaware Court having reinstated stock options from the electric vehicle company, Tesla worth 139 billion dollars (118 billion euros), which had been annulled last year, according to a Forbes ranking.
Forbes’ Top 10 Richest People in 2025 include:
| Name | Value of Fortune (in billions of dollars and euros) | Earnings in 2025 (in billions of dollars and euros) |
| Elon Musk (Tesla e SpaceX) | 754.4 (639,8) | +333.2 (+282,6) |
| Larry Page (co-founder of Google) | 254.7 (216) | +98.7 (+83,7) |
| Sergey Brin (co-founder Google) | 235.1 (199,4) | +86.1 (+73) |
| Jensen Huang (Nvidia) | 159.5 (135,2) | +42.3 (+35,8) |
| Larry Ellison (Oracle) | 250.3 (212,2) | +40.6 (+34,4) |
| Amancio Ortega (gift from Zara) | 250.3 (212,2) | +28.7 (+24,3) |
| Germán Larrea Mota Velasco & family | 51.4 (43,5) | +25.6 (+21,7) |
| Masayoshi Son (fundador do SoftBank) | 56.1 (47,5) | +25.4 (+21,5) |
| Mark Zuckerberg (Meta) | 226.8 (192,3) | +24.3 (+20,6) |
| Carlos Slim Helú (telecommunications sector) | 101.6 (86,1) | +24.3 (+20,6) |
