Who is the 20 year old billionaire?
Clemente Del Vecchio
Clemente was at one time the world's youngest billionaire (at the age of 18), but he has since aged out of that title, which is now held by Livia Voigt.
Clemente Del Vecchio
Clemente was at one time the world's youngest billionaire (at the age of 18), but he has since aged out of that title, which is now held by Livia Voigt.
A 19-year-old Brazilian student, Livia Voigt, claims the title of the world's youngest billionaire, surpassing Italian teen Clemente Del Vecchio. Voigt, heiress to a major electrical motors manufacturer, holds a net worth of $1.1 billion.
The youngest billionaire in the world is Brazil's Livia Voigt. Just 19 years old and still in college, she's worth an estimated $1.1 billion thanks to her minority stake in the electrical equipment producer WEG, which her late grandfather cofounded.
| Year | Richest Person | Net Worth (in billions) |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | Henry Ford | $14.6 (1947) |
| 1930s | John D. Rockefeller | $1.4 (1937) |
| 1920s | John D. Rockefeller | $1.2(1920) |
| 1910s | John D. Rockefeller | $0.9 (1913) |
The World's 10 Youngest Billionaires
Makeup mogul Kylie Jenner is No. 1: With $1 billion at 22 years old, she remains the world's youngest self-made billionaire. At No. 2 is 23-year-old Alexandra Andresen, worth $1.1 billion.
The 25 youngest people on the Forbes' World's Youngest Billionaires of 2024 list are all 33 or younger and worth $110 billion together. Some are self-made, but for the first time in more than 15 years, every billionaire under 30 inherited their fortune. We've highlighted the 14 billionaires under the age of 30 here.
19 year old boy gets engaged to his 76 year old billionaire girlfriend as he says it was love at first sight. “ I felt butterflies when I saw her” says Giuseppe D'Anna about his new fiancé Malian Gatta.
Blue Ivy Carter, age 11, is the eldest daughter of singer Beyoncé and rapper Jay-Z. Besides her trust assets and investments and her inheritance, which make up the bulk of her net worth, Blue Ivy has production and songwriting credits to her name, which equal royalties.
At just 19 years old, Brazilian student Livia Voigt has become the world's youngest billionaire, according to the latest Forbes' World's Billionaires list. A scion of the Voigt dynasty, she inherits her wealth from her family company.
Who is the richest 20 year old?
| Global Rank | Name | Age |
|---|---|---|
| 2648 | Livia Voigt | 19 |
| 682 | Clemente Del Vecchio | 20 |
| 2159 | Kim Jung-youn | 20 |
| 1097 | Kevin David Lehmann | 21 |
1. Françoise Bettencourt Meyers. With an eye-watering net worth of $99 billion, Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, a French businesswoman and philanthropist, is the richest woman in the world.
American rapper Jay-Z is the wealthiest music artist in the world, with Forbes estimating his net worth at $2.5 billion in 2024.
As of today, no billionaire is within striking distance of becoming a trillionaire. Elon Musk is, at present, the world's richest person, with a net worth of $206 billion, while Jeff Bezos is in the number two position with $179 billion, according to Bloomberg.
Clemente Del Vecchio
Clemente was at one time the world's youngest billionaire (at the age of 18), but he has since aged out of that title, which is now held by Livia Voigt.
Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, 70, has been deemed the richest woman in the entire world with a net work of $99.5 billion in 2024, according to Forbes. She owes it to the widely known cosmetic care company called L'Oreal, which was founded by her grandfather.
The financial news outlet said she is the first artist to achieve billionaire status solely on the basis of her music, and estimated she has a $1.1 billion fortune.
Clemente became the world's youngest billionaire at age 18, but he has since lost that title by a two-month age difference with the newest 19-year-old who took the title in 2024.
That helps explain why there are only four Forbes 400 members under the age of 40, down from ten a year ago, as four drop out and another three age up. It's the lowest number of under-40 billionaires on the list in at least two decades. They make up just 1% of the list.
The world's youngest billionaire is Livia Voigt, 19, who has a $1.1bn fortune thanks to a 3.1% stake in WEG Industries, a Brazilian electrical equipment producer co-founded by her grandfather Werner Ricardo. He died in 2016.
How many billionaires were born poor?
The proportion of those in the list who grew up poor or had little wealth remained constant at roughly 20 percent throughout the same period. Most individuals on the Forbes 400 list did not inherit the family business but rather made their own fortune.
If you're looking for a ballpark figure, Taylor Kovar, certified financial planner and CEO of Kovar Wealth Management says, “By age 30, a good rule of thumb is to aim to have saved the equivalent of your annual salary. Let's say you're earning $50,000 a year. By 30, it would be beneficial to have $50,000 saved.
Rupert Murdoch is proving that age is just a number when it comes to starting a new chapter in life. The 92-year-old media mogul, who will turn 93 next week, is set to marry girlfriend Elena Zhukova, 67, a Russian-born retired scientist in June this year, reports the Associated Press.
In 1994, her highly publicized second marriage to 89-year-old billionaire J. Howard Marshall resulted in speculation that she married him for his money, which she denied. Following Marshall's death in 1995, Smith began a lengthy legal battle over a share of his estate.
Sir Richard Branson may be well past retirement age at 73 years old, but the risk-loving entrepreneur shows no sign of slowing down. Even still, the Virgin Group CEO appears to be getting his affairs in order to ensure his crown jewel, Virgin Atlantic, stays in the family long after he's gone.
