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 In year 2020, there was loss everywhere. But some billionaires remained in profit.

Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Tesla's Elon Musk, Microsoft's Bill Gates, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett, Oracle's Larry Ellison, Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Walmart heiress Alice Walton have collectively earned $1.01 trillion.


According to Americans for Tax Fairness (AFTF), from $2.95 trillion as of March 18, 2020, the total net worth of America's 651 billionaires rose to $4.01 trillion as of December 7, 2020.

A quarter of this total wealth goes into the pockets of these 10 billionaires.

Elon Musk has the highest jump of 481 percent in his net worth which increases from $24.6 billion to $143.1 billion during the above mentioned period. His wealth has increased due to the increase in the value of shares in share market of his company, Tesla.


Mark Zuckerberg's net worth climbed by 91.7 percent from $54.7 billion to $104.8 billion.

Jeff Bezos' net worth grew by 63.2 percent from $113 billion to $184.4 billion.

Net worth for others is shown in the image below:

Source of data: Forbes.


Frank Clemente, executive director of Americans for Tax Fairness, said, "Never before has America seen such an accumulation of wealth in so few hand".


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