For the second consecutive year, both the number of billionaires worldwide, as well as their total wealth, has declined. According to Forbes, in 2023, the number of billionaires fell from 2,668 in 2022 to 2,640 this year. On the other hand, the total wealth of billionaires dropped by $500 billion.
As for the number of billionaires in the world, most members of the Forbes list are from the United States. The American Union (735 billionaires) is followed by China (495), India (169) and Germany (126). The richest person in the United States is Elon Musk from Texas, but who are the billionaires in the rest of the country? We explain to you.
Who is the richest person in each US state?
According to the portal Wealthy Nickelthe only states currently not home to at least one billionaire are Alaska, Delaware, and Vermont. We share with you who is the person with the greatest wealth in each entity in the United Statesaccording to forbes real time listconsulted on May 2:
- Alabama: James Stephens with $4 billion dollars
- Alaska: Leonard Hyde and Jonathan Rubini with $300 million (in 2019)
- Arizona: Ernest Garcia II with $3 billion
- Arkansas: Jim Walton with $63.4 billion
- California: Larry Page with $90.7 billion
- North Carolina: Tim Sweeney with $4.7 billion
- South Carolina: Anita Zucker with $1.9 billion
- Colorado: Philip Anschutz with $10.9 billion
- Connecticut: Ray Dalio with $19.1 billion
- North Dakota: Gary Tharaldson with $1 billion (in 2019)
- South Dakota: T. Denny Sanford with $2 billion
- Delaware: Elizabeth Snyder with $885 million (in 2019)
- Florida: Thomas Peterffy with $23.7 billion
- Georgia: Bernard Marcus with $8.2 billion
- Hawaii: Larry Ellison with $188.2 billion
- Idaho: Frank VanderSloot with $3.1 billion
- Illinois: Ken Griffin with $35 billion
- Indiana: Carl Cook with $10.2 billion
- Iowa: Harry Stine with $7.4 billion
- Kansas: Charles Koch with $59 billion
- Kentucky: Tamara Gustavson with $7.3 billion
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- Louisiana: Gayle Benson with $4.7 billion
- Maine: Susan Alfond with $2.6 billion
- Maryland: Stephen Bisciotti con 6.4 mil millones
- Massachusetts: Abigail Johnson with $21.5 billion
- Michigan: Daniel Gilbert with $18.7 billion
- Minnesota: Glen Taylor at $2.7 billion
- Mississippi: The Duff brothers (James and Thomas) with $2.3 billion each
- Missouri: Pauline MacMillan Keinath with $6.9 billion
- Montana: Dennis Washington with $6.4 billion
- Nebraska: Warren Buffett with $113.3 billion
- Nevada: Miriam Adelson with $38.3 billion
- New Jersey: John Overdeck with $6.8 billion
- New York: Michael Bloomberg with $94.5 billion
- New Hampshire: Richard Cohen with $11.9 billion
- New Mexico: Ron Corio with $1.1 billion (2021)
- Ohio: Les Wexner with $6 billion
- Oklahoma: Harold Hamm with $18.5 billion
- Oregon: Phil Knight with $48.2 billion
- Pennsylvania: Jeff Yass with $28.5 billion
- Rhode Island: Jonathan Nelson with $3.1 billion
- Tennessee: Thomas Frist Jr. with $22.6 billion
- Texas: Elon Musk with $171.9 billion
- Utah: Gail Miller with $4.2 billion
- Vermont: John Abele with $640 million (2019)
- Virginia: Jacqueline Mars with $38.3 billion
- Washington: Jeff Bezos with 126.7 billion
- West Virginia: Jim Justice II at $1.2 billion (2020)
- Wisconsin: John Menard Jr. with $17.4 billion
- Wyoming: John Mars with $38.3 billion
2023-05-02 07:00:00
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