Nearly three-quarters of the world’s billionaires are between the ages of 50 and 79. Just 12% are under 50. The rarest of all are those who manage to achieve billionaire status by the age of 30; this year there are just 21 of those flush youngsters on the Forbes list.
Most of the youngest billionaires are from Europe, with Germany having the most. Italy also has several young billionaires from an eyeglasses empire. Outside of Europe, there are two sibling pairs in South Korea and Brazil who inherited fortunes in online gaming and industrial machinery. There are only two self-made billionaires on the list, one from Australia who cofounded an online casino and one from the United States who cofounded an AI data annotation company.
Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/monicahunter-hart/2025/04/01/the-worlds-youngest-billionaires-2025/
Subscribe to FORBES: https://www.youtube.com/user/Forbes?sub_confirmation=1
Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including breaking news, groundbreaking in-depth reported stories, daily digests and more. Plus, members get a front-row seat at members-only events with leading thinkers and doers, access to premium video that can help you get ahead, an ad-light experience, early access to select products including NFT drops and more:
https://account.forbes.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=growth_non-sub_paid_subscribe_ytdescript
Stay Connected
Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com
Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes
Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes
Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes
More From Forbes: http://forbes.com
Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success.
Most of the youngest billionaires are from Europe, with Germany having the most. Italy also has several young billionaires from an eyeglasses empire. Outside of Europe, there are two sibling pairs in South Korea and Brazil who inherited fortunes in online gaming and industrial machinery. There are only two self-made billionaires on the list, one from Australia who cofounded an online casino and one from the United States who cofounded an AI data annotation company.
Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/monicahunter-hart/2025/04/01/the-worlds-youngest-billionaires-2025/
Subscribe to FORBES: https://www.youtube.com/user/Forbes?sub_confirmation=1
Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including breaking news, groundbreaking in-depth reported stories, daily digests and more. Plus, members get a front-row seat at members-only events with leading thinkers and doers, access to premium video that can help you get ahead, an ad-light experience, early access to select products including NFT drops and more:
https://account.forbes.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=growth_non-sub_paid_subscribe_ytdescript
Stay Connected
Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com
Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes
Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes
Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes
More From Forbes: http://forbes.com
Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success.
Category
🛠️
LifestyleTranscript
00:00Building a fortune usually takes years, even a lifetime,
00:04but the numbers speak for themselves.
00:06Nearly three quarters of the world's billionaires
00:08are between the ages of 50 and 79.
00:11Just 12% are under 50.
00:14The rarest of all are those who manage
00:15to achieve billionaire status by the age of 30.
00:19This year, there are just 21 of those flush youngsters
00:22on the Forbes world's billionaires list.
00:24Unsurprisingly, all but two of them inherited their wealth.
00:28That goes for the world's youngest billionaire,
00:30Johannes von Baumbach, age 19,
00:32who is heir to Germany's Boehringer Ingelheim,
00:35the world's largest privately owned pharmaceutical company.
00:39He and his three siblings, ages 23, 25, and 27,
00:43are each worth an estimated $5.4 billion,
00:46thanks to a stake in the drug maker.
00:49The vast majority of billionaire youths,
00:5115 of them, are from Europe.
00:53Germany has the most on the continent, followed by Italy.
00:57And outside of Europe, there are two sibling pairs
01:00in South Korea and Brazil,
01:02who respectively inherited fortunes
01:03in online gaming and industrial machinery.
01:06There are only two self-made billionaires on the list.
01:09One is Australia's Ed Craven, age 29,
01:12who co-founded Stake.com,
01:15thought to be the world's biggest
01:16crypto-backed online casino,
01:18with $4.7 billion in revenue in 2024.
01:22The other is the United States' Alexander Wang, age 28,
01:27who co-founded the AI data annotation unicorn, Scale.ai,
01:31and who recently became a billionaire for the second time.
01:34Back in 2021, a $7.3 billion valuation of the company
01:39gave Wang his first go at a three-comma fortune,
01:42but he dropped off the Forbes list in 2023,
01:45amid a swath of plummeting private tech valuations.
01:49Now, thanks to a May funding round
01:51that valued Scale.ai at $13.8 billion,
01:55the company and Wang are back.
01:58♪♪♪