Bankrate follows a strict editorial policy, so you can trust that we’re putting your interests first. Our award-winning editors and reporters create honest and accurate content to help you make the right financial decisions.
Key Principles
We value your trust. Our mission is to provide readers with accurate and unbiased information, and we have editorial standards in place to ensure that happens. Our editors and reporters thoroughly fact-check editorial content to ensure the information you’re reading is accurate. We maintain a firewall between our advertisers and our editorial team. Our editorial team does not receive direct compensation from our advertisers.
Editorial Independence
Bankrate’s editorial team writes on behalf of YOU – the reader. Our goal is to give you the best advice to help you make smart personal finance decisions. We follow strict guidelines to ensure that our editorial content is not influenced by advertisers. Our editorial team receives no direct compensation from advertisers, and our content is thoroughly fact-checked to ensure accuracy. So, whether you’re reading an article or a review, you can trust that you’re getting credible and dependable information.
You have money questions. Bankrate has answers. Our experts have been helping you master your money for over four decades. We continually strive to provide consumers with the expert advice and tools needed to succeed throughout life’s financial journey.
Bankrate follows a strict editorial policy, so you can trust that our content is honest and accurate. Our award-winning editors and reporters create honest and accurate content to help you make the right financial decisions. The content created by our editorial staff is objective, factual, and not influenced by our advertisers.
We’re transparent about how we are able to bring quality content, competitive rates, and useful tools to you by explaining how we make money.
Bankrate.com is an independent, advertising-supported publisher and comparison service. We are compensated in exchange for placement of sponsored products and, services, or by you clicking on certain links posted on our site. Therefore, this compensation may impact how, where and in what order products appear within listing categories. Other factors, such as our own proprietary website rules and whether a product is offered in your area or at your self-selected credit score range can also impact how and where products appear on this site. While we strive to provide a wide range offers, Bankrate does not include information about every financial or credit product or service.
Think you could be like Evan Spiegel and earn $2 billion by age 25? The creator of Snapchat is, in fact, the richest individual among those in his age group.
Wealth-X has identified the richest person at each decade of life. Among the 8 individuals, ranging in age from 25 to 93, all but one — the oldest — are self-made. Lilian Bettencourt inherited her wealth from cosmetics giant L’Oreal.
Another striking revelation is that 6 of the 8 individuals who achieved the most wealth in their age group are American. Only Bettencourt, who is French, and Amancio Ortega Gaona, who is Spanish, are not.
The chart containing data from Wealth-X and Bloomberg’s Billionaire index gives you an idea of the net worth you would need to become the richest person in your decade.
Richest person, by decade
|
| Decade: 20s |
Name: Evan Spiegel |
Age: 25 |
Approximate net worth: $2 billion |
Source of wealth: Snapchat |
| Decade: 30s |
Name: Mark Zuckerberg |
Age: 31 |
Approximate net worth: $46 billion |
Source of wealth: Facebook |
| Decade: 40s |
Name: Larry Page |
Age: 42 |
Approximate net worth: $39 billion |
Source of wealth: Google |
| Decade: 50s |
Name: Jeff Bezos |
Age: 51 |
Approximate net worth: $58 billion |
Source of wealth: Amazon |
| Decade: 60s |
Name: Bill Gates |
Age: 60 |
Approximate net worth: $82 billion |
Source of wealth: Microsoft |
| Decade: 70s |
Name: Amancio Ortega Gaona |
Age: 79 |
Approximate net worth: $73 billion |
Source of wealth: Inditex |
| Decade: 80s |
Name: Warren Buffett |
Age: 85 |
Approximate net worth: $62 billion |
Source of wealth: Berkshire Hathaway |
| Decade: 90s |
Name: Liliane Bettencourt |
Age: 93 |
Approximate net worth: $33 billion |
Source of wealth: L’Oreal |
Sources: Wealth-X, Bloomberg
They work hard for the money: Check out the 10 youngest billionaires in the world.
Get more news, money-saving tips and expert advice by signing up for a free Bankrate newsletter.
Share