At the same time, more than 40 million. Billionaires have seen their combined wealth rise over $1. 7 trillion, a gain of over 58 percent during the pandemic. Billionaires since the start of the pandemic. · a table of the top 15 billionaires is below and the full data set is here. · this chart shows the change in wealth of u. Crosses the grim milestone of 1 million deaths from covid - 19 , u. On that day, the united states had 614 billionaires who owned a combined wealth of $ 2. · in other words, u. · when you add up the numbers, billionaires in the united states have increased their total net worth $637 billion during the covid - 19 pandemic so far. Elon musk has seen his wealth increase by an eye-popping $150 billion during the pandemic, a gain of over 600 percent. Billionaires have gotten about $1. 2 trillion richer during the pandemic. · a report by swiss bank ubs found that billionaires increased their wealth by more than a quarter (27. 5%) at the height of the crisis from april to july, just as millions of people around the. Markets are surging, despite more than a year of lockdowns and a spike in unemployment, leading.
