Spain has gained eight new billionaires in the last year, bringing the total number of people with this level of wealth in the country to 32. Those who have joined this exclusive club, along with a fashion entrepreneur—specifically Amancio Ortega, the main shareholder of Inditex—driven the increase in billionaire wealth in Spain to $213.1 billion (€182.5 billion at the current exchange rate), representing 5% of the 2025 billionaire ambitions of the Swiss bank UBS. In Catalonia, the wealthiest individual is Sol Daurella, from the family that controls Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), who succeeded Mango founder Isak Andic, who died tragically.

Things are going well for the richest. Much more so than for the rest, although global poverty is declining worldwide due to economic growth, although the COVID crisis halted this trend. And, at the same time, inequality is growing, not so much between countries but within them, with an ever-widening gap in societies between those who have the most and those who have the least. The richest 1% have stabilized their share of global wealth at around 40%, below the levels of the neoliberal policies inaugurated by Ronald Reagan in the US and Margaret Thatcher in the UK during the period from 1980 to the mid-2000s, a period in which they became the owners.

For the first time, the number of billionaires worldwide (people with net worths of more than $1 billion) has surpassed 3,000. This is happening in a context of growth that has caused the richest 1% of the world's population to lose a small portion of their wealth. At the same time, poverty has decreased globally in recent years, but the COVID crisis halted this trend and has increased economic and social inequality within some countries. In this dossier, we review the list of the richest people by continent and examine which ones are richer by inheritance and which ones by their own merits.

For over 25 years, Lourdes Carbó has been managing the daily needs of multimillionaires and high-level professionals. After a period working alone as a personal assistant, she founded the agency Alberta La Grup, from which, she assures, they are able to obtain (almost) anything they request.

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez had a romance that captured the world's tabloids in the early 2000s. They were the youngest and most successful couple of the moment, and their plans to get married were a cherry on top that no media outlet could resist. The same thing happened with their breakup and the cancellation of their wedding plans. Their extremely complicated schedules and pressure from the press ruined a potential Hollywood wedding that had become a Western fairy tale. That relationship collapsed. took shape again in their twenties, when those young people were no longer so young, but their fame was just as great, if not greater. In 2021, the two stars fell in love again, and in April 2022, they announced that they were engaged to finally carry out what capricious fate had so cruelly prevented them from doing when they were young.

Spain lost millionaires last year, dropping from 250,600 to 246,600, but the wealth of those who are part of this select club continued to grow. These are some of the report's conclusions. Global Wealth 2025, published by the consulting firm Capgemini.