It’s no secret that Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, is one of the richest people in the world. According to Forbes Real Time Billionaires List, Bezos tends to hover in the top five wealthiest humans on the planet, after Elon Musk and in the company of Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page and Warren Buffett.
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But what if one day, Bezos decided to dismantle his empire and liquidate his assets in order to give everyone in the United States an equal share?
GOBankingRates is checking the math to see how much money every American would have if every citizen got a piece of Bezos’ wealth.
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The Number of People
Based on the U.S. Census Bureau’s tracking and data, the total American population is at 341,891,315 as of June 2025. The numbers show that about one American is born every 9 seconds while another one dies about every eleven seconds, so the rate of growth and loss are fairly in step with one another.
Theoretically, each of these people would receive an equal share of Bezos’ fortune in a perfect world under ideal circumstances. In the real world, that could prove to be a Herculean task; however, for the sake of experimentation, everyone accounted for in the population will receive the same amount of Bezos’ wealth at the same time on the same day.
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The Amount of Money
Forbes lists Jeff Bezos’ net worth at $237 billion as of this writing, and he is considered to be one of the few people to be included in the $100 Billion Club.
Using that figure and dividing it by the population of America, each person in the country would receive a sum in the range of $693.20. While that might not be a lot of money to some in the current economy, it would act similarly to a stimulus check or perhaps a holiday bonus.
What It Takes To Earn Bezos’ Wealth
Bezos started from fairly humble beginnings and is now one of the richest people in the world. It might sound impossible to ever reach a salary that could cultivate wealth like Bezos’, but it is not entirely out of the realm of possibility if you build for the future, not just for today.
“Bezos doesn’t make decisions based on what looks good this quarter; he’s thinking in five, 10, sometimes even 20-year timelines,” said Jamie Wall, a personal finance strategist at Gamblizard. “Amazon didn’t turn a profit until 2003, nearly a decade after it launched and seven years after going public.”
“For regular people, this means not basing every financial or career decision on short-term wins,” Wall concluded. “Gaining wealth isn’t a sprint, it’s a marathon.”
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This article originally appeared on GOBankingRates.com: If Bezos’ Wealth Was Evenly Distributed Across the U.S., How Much Would We Get?
