The youngest billionaires on the planet haven’t even been alive for three decades, but that hasn’t stopped them from amassing three-comma fortunes. Twelve people under the age of 30 made Forbes’ 2022 list of the World’s Billionaires, including four Stanford dropouts, two food delivery magnates and a cryptocurrency whiz. Together, this rarefied group is worth $25.8 billion and represents less than half a percent of the 2,668 billionaires Forbes found this year.

It’s been a mixed year overall for this elite cohort. While there are two more billionaires under 30 this year than in 2021, this group is collectively worth $3.7 billion less than last year’s group, due in large part to choppy equity markets and FTX cofounder Sam Bankman-Fried’s graduation from the under-30 ranks. Forbes has ages for about 97% of the 2022 list members; this post is based on the ages that we've been able to confirm.

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