It is 0.5% of 1% of the Milmillonaria elite

At the end of 2023, it was estimated that around 1.1% of humanity controls 45.8% of all the wealth. At present, both percentages are likely to be short since the number of millmillonarians have passed 2,640 in 2023, to 3,028 ultra -ups in 2025with a heritage of more than 1,000 million dollars, According to data of Forbes.

Among them, they accumulate a fortune of joint of 16.1 billion (Europeans) of dollars. However, even within that small group of Milmillonarios, there is also an elite that belongs to a select club: the 100,000 million club of dollars.

The rise of the centimillonarians

Just eight years ago, someone’s simple idea with a fortune of more than 100,000 million dollars was practically science fiction thing. At the end of the 80s, the planet’s largest fortunes barely exceeded 10,000 million dollars, and we had to wait until the Puntocom outbreakon the threshold of the 2000, so that someone will approach the 12 figures: Bill Gates. Today, on the other hand, the world has changed dramatically.

In 2025 several milestones have been overcome, such as the fact of a person overcomes The threshold of 400,000 million of heritage. But in relation to this select club, the milestones have been that the number of members has promoted 15 people, and that One of them is a woman.

According to data of Forbesthis select club formed by only 15 people, controls 15% of the total wealth in the hands of the Millionaires. That implies that the members of this select club control a sum of 2.4 billion dollars. That is, 400,000 million more than the joint assets that added the 14 members that formed it last year.

Between 2018 and 2020, only Jeff Bezos exceeded 100,000 million dollars of heritage. In 2021, they joined this select Club Elon Musk, Bernard Arnault and Bill Gates. In 2022, they joined the Warren Buffett club, the founders of Google Larry Page and Serguéi Brin, and Larry Ellison. It was already a club formed by eight members.

However, the greatest increase occurred in 2024, when the members had to clench a little to accommodate the 14 millionaires whose fortunes exceeded 12 figures. These are all club members in 2025:

1. Elon Musk (342,000 million dollars)
2. Mark Zuckerberg (216,000 million dollars)
3. Jeff Bezos (215,000 million dollars)
4. Larry Ellison (192,000 million dollars)
5. Bernard Arnault (178,000 million dollars)
6. Warren Buffett (154,000 million dollars)
7. Larry Page (144,000 million dollars)
8. Serguéi Brin (138,000 million dollars)
9. Amancio Ortega (124,000 million dollars)
10. Steve Ballmer (118,000 million dollars)
11. Rob Walton and Family (110,000 million dollars)
12. Jim Walton and Family (109,000 million dollars)
13. Bill Gates (108,000 million dollars)
14. Michael Bloomberg (105,000 million dollars)
15. Alice Walton (101 billion dollars)

The first woman in the club

For the first time in history, a woman has managed to break the 100,000 million barrier and join this exclusive club. It has been Alice Walton, heiress of the fortune of Walmart, who took the witness of Françoise Bettencourt Meyersfrom L’Oreal, which in 2024 He stayed at the doors With a fortune that fleeting the 100,200 million fleetingly, but it was not consolidated above that figure.

With an estimated assets of 101,000 million dollars, Walton is not only recognized for its vast wealth, but also for its philanthropy. It has donated approximately 1.7 billion dollars for 2024, including the donation of 249 million dollars to build the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine in Bentonville, hometown of the Walton family.

His brothers Jim and Rob Walton are also part of this exclusive Millionaire club, with a fortunes of valued at 109,000 and 110,000 million dollars respectively.

A Spanish and a French among Americans

Among this elite of magnates, only two millmillonarians do not have American nationality: THE SPANISH AMANCIO ORTEGAfounder of Inditex; and the Frenchman Bernard Arnault, head of the LVMH luxury conglomerate.

Amancio Ortega has consolidated his fortune above 100,000 million thanks to the good financial results of Inditex and the growth rate of its Real Empire Pontegadea. At present, Ortega occupies the Ninth position of the Millionaire List of Forbes, with a heritage valued at 124,000 million.

Something more agitated It has been Bernard Arnault’s stay in this club during the last year, which went from taking first place on the Forbes list, to fall to fifth place due to the Sales collapse in China of its luxury products.

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