With a combined net-worth of $16.1 billion, there are now around 3,000 billionaires in the world as of 2025 across 78 countries. Around one-third of these billionaires reside in the United States of America. Out of them, 14 per cent were not born in the USA and hold a cumulative wealth of $1.3 trillion.
According to Forbes, about 93 per cent of these foreign-born billionaires have built their fortune on their own, mainly in two sectors – technology (53 billionaires) and finance (28 billionaires).
In addition, three of the world’s top ten billionaires in the USA are foreign-born born namely Elon Musk (originally from South Africa), Google cofounder Sergey Brin (Russia) and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang (Taiwan).
Indian-origin entrepreneurs saw a rise as a major player in the US economy. The Indian-origin billionaires has more than doubled from five in 2022 to 12 in 2025. India has become the country of origin for the highest number of foreign-born billionaires in the United States surpassing Israel in this category, according to the latest Forbes list.
Top 10 richest Indian-origin (billionaires) in the United States 2025:
| Rank | Global Rank | Name | Net Worth | Source of Wealth |
| 1 | 8 | Jay Chaudhry | $17.9B | Security software |
| 2 | 17 | Vinod Khosla | $9.2B | Sun Microsystems, venture capital |
| 3 | 29 | Rakesh Gangwal | $6.6B | Airline |
| 4 | 38 | Romesh T. Wadhwani | $5.0B | Software |
| 5 | 40 | Rajiv Jain | $4.8B | Finance |
| 6 | 64 | Kavitark Ram Shriram | $3.0B | Google, venture capital |
| 7 | 86 | Raj Sardana | $2.0B | Technology services |
| 8 | 101 | David Paul | $1.5B | Medical devices |
| 9 | 103 | Nikesh Arora | $1.4B | Cybersecurity, SoftBank, Google |
| 10 | 119 | Sundar Pichai | $1.1B | Alphabet |
| 11 | 120 | Satya Nadella | $1.1B | Microsoft |
| 12 | 123 | Neerja Sethi | $1.0B | IT consulting |
Top 10 richest foreign-origin (billionaires) in the United States 2025:
| Rank | Name | Net Worth | Source of Wealth | Place of Birth |
| 1 | Elon Musk | $393.1B | Tesla, SpaceX | South Africa |
| 2 | Sergey Brin | $139.7B | Russia | |
| 3 | Jensen Huang | $137.9B | Semiconductors | Taiwan |
| 4 | Thomas Peterffy | $67.9B | Discount brokerage | Hungary |
| 5 | Miriam Adelson & family | $33.4B | Casinos | Israel |
| 6 | Rupert Murdoch & family | $24.0B | Newspapers, TV networks | Australia |
| 7 | Peter Thiel | $21.8B | Facebook, investments | Germany |
| 8 | Jay Chaudhry | $17.9B | Security software | India |
| 9 | Jan Koum | $16.9B | Ukraine | |
| 10 | John Tu | $14.1B | Computer hardware | China |