World Population In 2024 In Billionaires. Forbes presents the 2024 world's billionaires list. Last year, almost all of the wealth gained by the richest people in the world (96 per cent of the gains recorded by the bloomberg billionaires index) came from the boom.

Overall, billionaires have seen their wealth grow by $3.3 trillion, or 34%, since 2020, with their fortunes expanding three times faster than the rate of inflation,. The ultra wealthy population grew by more than 7% in 2023.