Who Was the Richest Person When You Were Born?

Wealth at the top turns over more than you'd think. Enter your birth year and watch the crown change hands across your lifetime.

Richest person the year you were born (1990)
Yoshiaki Tsutsumi
Seibu (railways & real estate) · Japan
When you turned 18 (2008)
Berkshire Hathaway · United States · $62.00B that year
When you turned 30 (2020)
Amazon · United States · $113.00B that year
Right now
An estimated $417.59B — live from public holdings.
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Historical #1s are from Forbes' annual World's Billionaires list (published each spring since 1987); annual-list net worth figures shown where reliably documented. Today's figure is our own real-time estimate.