Since the Forbes 400 has been published annually since 1982, List of members of the Forbes 400 can refer to the list published in any of those years. The combined net worth of the 2013 class of the 400 richest Americans is $2 trillion, up from $1.7 trillion in 2012.[ 1] The average net worth of a 2015 Forbes 400 member was $3.86 billion, down $60 million from 2014.[ 2] As of March 2015, the US has 536 billionaires.[ 3]
Forbes 400
The following is the top 25 wealthiest Americans from the world's billionaires in 2014.[ 4]
America's wealthiest people
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Name
Net worth (USD )
Sources of wealth
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Bill Gates
$81 billion
Microsoft , Cascade Investments LLC
7000200000000000000♠ 2
Warren Buffett
$67 billion
Berkshire Hathaway
7000300000000000000♠ 3
Larry Ellison
$50 billion
Oracle Corporation
7000400000000000000♠ 4
Charles Koch
$42 billion
Koch Industries , inherited
7000500000000000000♠ 5
David H. Koch
$42 billion
Koch Industries, inherited
7000600000000000000♠ 6
Christy Walton
$38 billion
Wal-Mart , inherited
7000700000000000000♠ 7
Jim Walton
$36 billion
Wal-Mart, inherited
7000800000000000000♠ 8
Michael Bloomberg
$35 billion
Bloomberg LP
7000900000000000000♠ 9
Alice Walton
$34.9 billion
Wal-Mart, inherited
7001100000000000000♠ 10
S. Robson Walton
$34.8 billion
Wal-Mart, inherited
7001110000000000000♠ 11
Mark Zuckerberg
$34 billion
Facebook
7001120000000000000♠ 12
Sheldon Adelson
$32 billion
Las Vegas Sands
7001130000000000000♠ 13
Larry Page
$31.5 billion
Google
7001140000000000000♠ 14
Sergey Brin
$31 billion
Google
7001150000000000000♠ 15
Jeff Bezos
$30.5 billion
Amazon.com
7001160000000000000♠ 16
Carl Icahn
$26 billion
Icahn Enterprises
7001170000000000000♠ 17
George Soros
$24 billion
Soros Fund Management
7001180000000000000♠ 18
Steve Ballmer
$22.5 billion
Microsoft
7001190000000000000♠ 19
Forrest Mars, Jr.
$22 billion
Mars, Inc. , inherited
7001200000000000000♠ 20
Jacqueline Mars
$22 billion
Mars, Inc., inherited
7001210000000000000♠ 21
John Franklyn Mars
$22 billion
Mars, Inc., inherited
7001220000000000000♠ 22
Leonard Blavatnik
$21.5 billion
Access Industries
7001230000000000000♠ 23
Phil Knight
$19.9 billion
Nike, Inc.
7001240000000000000♠ 24
Harold Hamm
$18.7 billion
Continental Resources
7001250000000000000♠ 25
Michael Dell
$17.7 billion
Dell
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