Elon Musk Becomes the World’s First Trillionaire

ey Takeaways

• Elon Musk’s forecasted net worth reaches over $1.1 trillion as SpaceX goes public, making him the world’s first trillionaire.
• At $1.1 trillion, Musk’s fortune is nearly four times that of the world’s second-richest person, Larry Page ($292.7 billion), and larger than the next three fortunes combined.

For more than a century, the ceiling for personal wealth has been measured in billions. Today, that changes as SpaceX begins trading on the Nasdaq, pushing Elon Musk to become the world’s first trillionaire.

This graphic ranks the world’s 10 richest people using net worth estimates from the Forbes Real-Time Billionaires list as of June 11, 2026. Musk’s figure is the approximately $1.1 trillion forecast from Forbes and Reuters calculations made ahead of SpaceX’s market debut.

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