(10 March 2026, Shanghai, China, Mumbai, India, and Oxford, UK) Hurun Report today released the Hurun Global Forty and Under Self-Made Billionaires 2026, a ranking of the world’s self-made dollar billionaires aged forty or under. This is a sublist of the Hurun Global Rich List 2026, released on 5 March 2026. Wealth calculations are a snapshot of 15 January 2026.  This is the 9^th edition of the list, which Hurun started in 2016.

Hurun Research found 108 self-made billionaires in the world aged 40 & under, up 30. They came from 16 countries, up 2. Their total wealth was US$347bn, down 31%. 8 individuals, up 3, are worth US$10bn or more. The average age was 36 years.

14 saw their wealth go down, of which 1 dropped out. A further 17 from last year turned 41 years old, so no longer made the age cutoff. 93 saw their wealth go up, of which 56 were new faces. 2 saw their wealth not change.