PERSON
BillionairesBill Gates
🇺🇸 United States • b. 1955
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 recordsWhat countsAnnual Forbes list value — one row per year; “current” = the latest year's row.
- 2026Net worth depressed materially by lifetime Gates Foundation donations.$115Bsrc
- 2024Forbes World's Billionaires 2024 list net worth.$128Bsrc
- 2023Forbes World's Billionaires 2023 list net worth.$104Bsrc
- 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
- 2017Forbes World's Billionaires 2017 list net worth.$86Bsrc
- 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 recordWhat countsAll-time maximum recorded net worth (highest citable figure, not an intraday estimate).
- 2022All-time high: $129B on the Forbes 2022 World's Billionaires list — 'his highest net worth ever' per https://moneyweek.com/investments/605912/bill-gates-net-worth. Net worth has since declined on Gates Foundation giving ($104B 2023). Truth-pass Phase B correction (was the $100B 1999 dot-com milestone). | Correction applied: truth-pass Phase B: stored peak $100B (1999 dot-com nominal milestone) contradicted the active series max ($129B, Forbes 2022 list). Corrected to $129B — 'his highest net worth ever' per https://moneyweek.com/investments/605912/bill-gates-net-worth; dated to the Forbes 2022 list row (series convention 2022-01-01).$129Bsrc
Sources
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- VerifiedForbes
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repoint-2026-06: was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires_2023 (HTTP 404); repointed to live equivalent. MediaWiki API: title "The World's Billionaires 2023" MISSING; live #2023 section table verified against stored record values 2026-06-09
repoint-2026-06: was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires_2022 (HTTP 404); repointed to live equivalent. MediaWiki API: title "The World's Billionaires 2022" MISSING; live #2022 section table verified against stored record values 2026-06-09 (known wiki-table Bezos 177-vs-171 mirror disagreement documented — U-5 rejected the wiki figure)
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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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