Wealth-X Reveals: The Wealthiest Person At Each Decade

SINGAPORE, Nov. 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Wealth-X today released a list of the wealthiest person at each decade, from their 20s through their 90s, revealing insights into wealth creation at different ages.

The list shows that:

• Americans in the tech industry dominated the list.
• The wealthiest individual across all age groups is Bill Gates, Microsoft founder and the Bill & Melinda Foundation co-chairman, age 60, with a net worth of US$87.3 billion as of 20 November.
• The least wealthy person on the list is also the youngest — Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel, age 25, with a current net worth of US$2 billion.
• Only one woman made the list: Liliane Bettencourt, the 93-year-old French heiress to the L'Oreal cosmetics empire, with a current net worth of US$31.4 billion.

Entrepreneurship was a common theme across the age groups: all of the individuals, with one exception, are self-made billionaires.

Below is the list of the wealthiest person in each decade. Click on each name for a Wealth-X dossier of the individual:

*net worth as of 20 November 2015

About Wealth-XWealth-X is the global authority on wealth intelligence, providing sales, marketing, strategy and compliance solutions to clients in the financial services, luxury, not-for-profit and education sectors. Its award-winning research and thought leadership are regularly cited by the world's media such as CNBC, Financial Times, Thomson Reuters and BBC. Wealth-X has more than 250 staff in 10 global centres, including Singapore, London and New York (www.wealthx.com)

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