{"id":209254,"date":"2026-02-01T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/01\/the-top-10-richest-people-in-the-world-february-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T15:25:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T20:25:28","slug":"the-top-10-richest-people-in-the-world-february-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/01\/the-top-10-richest-people-in-the-world-february-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"The Top 10 Richest People In The World (February 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/news\/billionaires\/the-top-10-richest-people-in-the-world-february-2026\/\">The Top 10 Richest People In The World (February 2026)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/news\/billionaires\/the-top-10-richest-people-in-the-world-february-2026\/\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/news\/billionaires\/the-top-10-richest-people-in-the-world-february-2026\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-01 18:35:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.forbes.com.au\">www.forbes.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPublished on\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFebruary 2, 2026\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-half-of-the-top-ten-richest-people-on-the-planet-moved-up-or-down-on-forbes-real-time-billionaires-ranking-in-a-wild-first-month-of-the-year\">Half of the top ten richest people on the planet moved up or down on Forbes\u2019 Real-Time Billionaires ranking in a wild first month of the year.<\/h5>\n<p>Musk is the richest person in the world (Image: Getty)<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-key-facts\">Key Facts<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Elon Musk\u00a0is the richest person in the world, a title he\u2019s held since May 2024.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Larry Page overtook Larry Ellison to become the world\u2019s second-wealthiest person in November.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Bill Gates dropped out of the top 10 richest in October 2024 after\u00a0Forbes\u00a0obtained new information that led to a significant contraction in his fortune.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>8\/10 of the richest people in the world are Americans. The two non-U.S. citizens: France\u2019s Bernard Arnault and Spain\u2019s Amancio Ortega.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>All\u00a0of the top ten richest people as of February 1 are men. Each of them is worth $147 billion or more, down from $152 billion last month.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There was a significant shakeup\u00a0among the world\u2019s top 10 richest people to start the year, with half of these billionaires switching spots on\u00a0Forbes\u2019Real-Time Billionaires ranking in January. But one thing didn\u2019t change: Elon Musk is still the wealthiest person on the planet by far, worth an estimated $775 billion as of 12 a.m. Eastern on February 1. Musk added $48 billion to his fortune over the past month and is now nearly half-a-trillion dollars richer than his runner-up, Google cofounder Larry Page, who is worth an estimated $277 billion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Musk is on the verge of becoming the\u00a0first person ever worth $800 billion\u00a0thanks to his artificial intelligence and social media company xAI Holdings, which raised $20 billion from private investors at a $250 billion valuation earlier this month. That boosted the value of Musk\u2019s estimated 49% stake in xAI Holdings by $62 billion to $122 billion. Musk became the first person ever worth\u00a0$500 billion in October,\u00a0$600 billion on December 15, and\u00a0$700&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/news\/billionaires\/the-top-10-richest-people-in-the-world-february-2026\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Top 10 Richest People In The World (February 2026) https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/news\/billionaires\/the-top-10-richest-people-in-the-world-february-2026\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-01 18:35:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-2.png?w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-209254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209256,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209254\/revisions\/209256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}