PERSON
BillionairesJeff Bezos
🇺🇸 United States • b. 1964
Founder and executive chair of Amazon; owner of Blue Origin and The Washington Post.
- Nationality
- US
Records
3 metrics · 29 records
Age at First Billion
1 record- 1999First Forbes Billionaires listing 1999 on Amazon dot-com appreciation.35countsrc
Net Worth
27 recordsWhat countsAnnual Forbes list value — one row per year; “current” = the latest year's row.
- 2026Forbes World's Billionaires 2026 list net worth.$224Bsrc
- 2025Forbes World's Billionaires 2025 list net worth.$215Bsrc
- 2024Forbes World's Billionaires 2024 list net worth.$194Bsrc
- 2023Forbes World's Billionaires 2023 list net worth.$114Bsrc
- 2022Forbes World's Billionaires 2022 list net worth.$171Bsrc
- 2021Forbes World's Billionaires 2021 list net worth.$177Bsrc
- 2020Forbes World's Billionaires 2020 list net worth.$113Bsrc
- 2019Jan 1, 2019$131Bsrc
- 2018Forbes World's Billionaires 2018 list net worth.$112Bsrc
- 2017Forbes World's Billionaires 2017 list net worth.$72.8Bsrc
- 2016Forbes World's Billionaires 2016 list net worth.$45.2Bsrc
- 2015Forbes World's Billionaires 2015 list net worth.$50.3Bsrc
- 2014Forbes World's Billionaires 2014 list net worth.$30.5Bsrc
- 2013Forbes World's Billionaires 2013 list net worth.$28.9Bsrc
- 2012Forbes World's Billionaires 2012 list net worth.$23.2Bsrc
- 2011Forbes World's Billionaires 2011 list net worth.$18.1Bsrc
- 2010Forbes World's Billionaires 2010 list net worth.$12.6Bsrc
- 2009Forbes World's Billionaires 2009 list net worth.$6.8Bsrc
- 2008Forbes World's Billionaires 2008 list net worth.$8.2Bsrc
- 2007Forbes World's Billionaires 2007 list net worth.$8.7Bsrc
- 2006Forbes World's Billionaires 2006 list net worth.$4.3Bsrc
- 2005Forbes World's Billionaires 2005 list net worth.$4.1Bsrc
- 2004Forbes World's Billionaires 2004 list net worth.$5.1Bsrc
- 2003Forbes World's Billionaires 2003 list net worth.$2.5Bsrc
- 2002Forbes World's Billionaires 2002 list net worth.$1.5Bsrc
- 2001Forbes World's Billionaires 2001 list net worth.$2Bsrc
- 2000Forbes World's Billionaires 2000 list net worth.$6.1Bsrc
Net Worth (Peak)
1 recordWhat countsAll-time maximum recorded net worth (highest citable figure, not an intraday estimate).
- 2024Late-2024 peak per Bloomberg Billionaires Index.$244Bsrc
Sources
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repoint-2026-06: was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires_2026 (HTTP 404); repointed to live equivalent. live #2026 section has real-time edits diverging from the as-published list; the 2026-03-16 Wayback snapshot's #2026 table matches all 10 stored values exactly (Musk $839B … Ortega $148B), verified 2026-06-09
repoint-2026-06: was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires_2025 (HTTP 404); repointed to live equivalent. MediaWiki API: title "The World's Billionaires 2025" MISSING; live #2025 section table verified against stored record values 2026-06-09
- VerifiedBloomberg
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repoint-2026-06: was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires_2024 (HTTP 404); repointed to live equivalent. MediaWiki API: title "The World's Billionaires 2024" MISSING; live #2024 section table verified against stored record values 2026-06-09
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)
repoint-2026-06: was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires_2021 (HTTP 404); repointed to live equivalent. MediaWiki API: title "The World's Billionaires 2021" MISSING; live #2021 section table verified against stored record values 2026-06-09
repoint-2026-06: was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires_2020 (HTTP 404); repointed to live equivalent. MediaWiki API: title "The World's Billionaires 2020" MISSING; live #2020 section table verified against stored record values 2026-06-09
- 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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