PERSON
BillionairesBill Gates
🇺🇸 United States
Co-founder of Microsoft; co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
- Nationality
- US
Records
3 metrics · 28 records
Age at First Billion
1 record- 1987Mar 1, 198731countsrc
Net Worth
26 records- 2026Net worth depressed materially by lifetime Gates Foundation donations.$115Bsrc
- 2022Forbes World's Billionaires 2022 list net worth.$129Bsrc
- 2021Forbes World's Billionaires 2021 list net worth.$124Bsrc
- 2020Forbes World's Billionaires 2020 list net worth.$98Bsrc
- 2019Jan 1, 2019$96.5Bsrc
- 2018Forbes World's Billionaires 2018 list net worth.$90Bsrc
- 2017Jul 27, 2017$89.8Bsrc
- 2017Forbes World's Billionaires 2017 list net worth.$86Bsrc
- 2016Jul 1, 2016$77.7Bsrc
- 2016Forbes World's Billionaires 2016 list net worth.$75Bsrc
- 2015Jan 1, 2015$79.2Bsrc
- 2014Forbes World's Billionaires 2014 list net worth.$76Bsrc
- 2013Forbes World's Billionaires 2013 list net worth.$67Bsrc
- 2012Forbes World's Billionaires 2012 list net worth.$61Bsrc
- 2011Forbes World's Billionaires 2011 list net worth.$56Bsrc
- 2010Forbes World's Billionaires 2010 list net worth.$53Bsrc
- 2009Forbes World's Billionaires 2009 list net worth.$40Bsrc
- 2008Forbes World's Billionaires 2008 list net worth.$58Bsrc
- 2007Forbes World's Billionaires 2007 list net worth.$56Bsrc
- 2006Forbes World's Billionaires 2006 list net worth.$50Bsrc
- 2005Forbes World's Billionaires 2005 list net worth.$46.5Bsrc
- 2004Forbes World's Billionaires 2004 list net worth.$46.6Bsrc
- 2003Forbes World's Billionaires 2003 list net worth.$40.7Bsrc
- 2002Forbes World's Billionaires 2002 list net worth.$52.8Bsrc
- 2001Forbes World's Billionaires 2001 list net worth.$58.7Bsrc
- 2000Forbes World's Billionaires 2000 list net worth.$60Bsrc
Net Worth (Peak)
1 record- 1999Crossed $100B nominal at the dot-com peak — first person to do so in the modern Forbes era.$100Bsrc
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- OfficialForbes
Annual World's Billionaires list. Source-of-wealth, country, net worth as of publication.
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- Community-sourcedWikidata
Cross-cutting structured data via SPARQL. Use as a backbone for entity slugs and IDs; verify numbers against tier-1 sources before publishing.
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