Each year brings a new crop of multimillionaires and billionaires. Children often inherit most of their parents’ money, making them wealthy well before they reach puberty and begin formal education.
While adults tend to dominate lists of the world’s richest individuals, it’s important to also recognize the youngest people who have amassed significant wealth through their own efforts, recognition, or parental inheritance.
Adults are typically the richest in the world because they have the maturity and experience to amass wealth independently through means such as a job, creative endeavors, a business, or even inheritance.
However, it’s important to take into account the next generation while compiling the list of wealthy people, since some young people have already reached the pinnacle of success. Who, then, will be the world’s wealthiest adolescent in the year 2022?
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Who is The Richest Kid in The World
Each year brings a new crop of multimillionaires and billionaires. Children often inherit most of their parents’ money, making them wealthy well before they reach puberty and begin formal education.
While adults tend to dominate lists of the world’s richest individuals, it’s important to also recognize the youngest people who have amassed significant wealth through their own efforts, recognition, or parental inheritance.
1. Benji Wojin
Benji Wojin is the richest child in the world since his father, Larry Page, is one of the world’s richest men but has not signed the giving promise, a voluntary commitment by billionaires to donate half their wealth to charity over the course of their lives.
Benji Wojin, who was born in 2008 and is anticipated to inherit a large chunk of his father’s fortune, has a net worth of over $10 billion. This makes him the richest child in the United States and the richest boy in the world.
2. Princess Charlotte
Princess Charlotte of Cambridge is believed to be worth $5 billion, making her the second wealthiest child in the world. Prince William and Kate Middleton welcomed their second child and only daughter into the world on May 2, 2015.
When her grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, dies, Charlotte, the second-youngest child billionaire, will be third in line to the British throne, behind her father and older brother.
3. Prince George
Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge is expected to become the third wealthiest child in the world by the year 2023, with an estimated fortune of $3 billion. Royal baby born on July 22, 2013 is also the world’s second-wealthiest toddler. Prince George of Cambridge’s wealth comes from his position as the eldest child of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
4. Rihanna and ASAP Rocky’s Unnamed Son
The unnamed son of America’s youngest self-made millionaire, Rihanna, will be born on May 13, 2022, making him the world’s richest child not born into royalty and the second-richest child in America.
With an estimated $1.5 billion in assets, the newborn son of pop musician and hip hop superstar ASAP Rocky is the youngest billionaire child in the world.
5. Blue Ivy Carter
There is no better or easier way to become wealthy than to be born into an affluent family, as evidenced by Blue Ivy’s position as the fifth richest child in the world thanks to her inheritance of $1 billion. Being the daughter of Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Blue Ivy is one of the most well-off kids on our list.
6. Kim Jung-youn
Kim Jung-youn, the 18-year-old daughter of Nexon’s founder Kim Jung-ju, is the sixth richest child in the world. Nexon is one of the top 10 interactive video game firms in the world.
When Kim Jung-ju, the third richest man in South Korea, passed away in Hawaii in February 2022, at the age of 54, he left behind a considerable amount of Nexus stock for his wife and two children.
A $1 billion fortune makes Jung-youn one of the world’s wealthiest teenagers. NXC is Kim Jung-ju’s holding firm; together with her sister Jung-min, she controls roughly 48% of Nexus.
7. Suri Cruise
Thanks to Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, Suri is one of the wealthiest children in the world. When her parents pass away, Suri will receive a large portion of their riches, as is the case with most children from wealthy families. Suri Cruise, at the age of 16, has the highest net worth of any teenager in the world, at $800 million.
8. Stormi Webster
Kylie Jenner (an American model, actress, and entrepreneur) and rapper Travis Scott are the parents of their daughter Stormi Webster. The world’s attention was already riveted on the fifth richest child even before she was born. Stormi’s popularity has skyrocketed in recent months, and by 2021, she is expected to be worth $726 million, more than her famous parents.
9. Maxima “Max” Chan Zuckerberg
Maxima Chan Zuckerberg, daughter of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and pediatrician Priscilla Chan, was born on December 1, 2015, making her the ninth wealthiest child in the world.
Although Zuckerberg donated 99% of his Facebook shares, or $45 billion, to his organization, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, in honor of Maxima’s birth, Maxima “Max” Chan Zuckerberg would still inherit at least $185.73 million.
10. Knox Jolie Pitt and Vivienne Jolie Pitt
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie had a set of twins, Knox and Vivienne. The twins’ wealth has skyrocketed since their birth, and they are now among the world’s wealthiest children. A “modest” $1 million was paid for their first photo shoot, making it the most expensive portrait of a child or children ever sold.
In addition to what they bring in themselves, Knox and Vivienne also benefit greatly from the hard work of their parents. With an expected inheritance of $200 million, they will never have to worry about money again.
Conclusion
In contrast to some who are fortunate enough to be born into riches, others may have to struggle their entire lives just to make ends meet. Numerous people in this group are juveniles, making up an exclusive club of the world’s wealthiest children.
In an area where few people thrive despite broad effort, recognition is more likely to go to children of the wealthy, those with unique talents, or those who have simply been lucky. These lucky people either have money handed to them from birth or become billionaires before they reach the age where it is legal to consume alcohol.
