PERSON
BillionairesElon Musk
🇺🇸 United States
Founder/CEO of Tesla and SpaceX; owner of X. Born in South Africa, US citizen.
- Nationality
- US
Records
3 metrics · 13 records
Age at First Billion
1 record- 2012First listed by Forbes in the 2012 World's Billionaires at $2B.41countsrc
Net Worth
11 records- 2026Forbes Real-Time, May 2026. Driven by Tesla equity recovery and xAI/SpaceX private valuations.$419Bsrc
- 2025Forbes World's Billionaires 2025 list net worth.$342Bsrc
- 2024Forbes World's Billionaires 2024 list net worth.$195Bsrc
- 2023Forbes World's Billionaires 2023 list net worth.$180Bsrc
- 2022Mar 26, 2022$270.1Bsrc
- 2022Forbes World's Billionaires 2022 list net worth.$219Bsrc
- 2021Jul 15, 2021$162Bsrc
- 2021Apr 6, 2021$151Bsrc
- 2021Forbes World's Billionaires 2021 list net worth.$151Bsrc
- 2019Jan 1, 2019$22.3Bsrc
- 2016Oct 1, 2016$11.5Bsrc
Net Worth (Peak)
1 record- 2024All-time high per Bloomberg Billionaires Index in Dec 2024 on the Trump-era Tesla rally.$486Bsrc
Sources
8 sources cited on this page
- OfficialForbes
Annual World's Billionaires list. Source-of-wealth, country, net worth as of publication.
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- OfficialBloomberg
Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Daily-updated net worth.
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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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