Is it really possible to buy the world with Musk’s money?

Elon Musk and the trillion dollar milestone: How much is the reality behind the mountain of wealth?

Elon Musk has written a new name in the pages of history. Building on the great success of rocket company SpaceX, he is now the world's first trillionaire, that is, the owner of a personal wealth of more than 1 trillion dollars. What was once just a fantasy, is now a reality. But how huge is this mountain of wealth of one trillion dollars?

In simple terms, even if Musk gave away 15 thousand taka to each of the 8.2 billion people in the world, his wealth would still not end. The question arises - is this unimaginable money in the hands of a person worth buying the entire world? Let's find out some surprising facts about Elon Musk's trillion dollar wealth...

A trillion dollar means one thousand billion dollars. If you put 12 zeros after the number 1, it becomes one trillion. Which can be called one lakh crore in Bengali. Musk has been the richest person in the world for a while, or at least close to it. According to Forbes, in October 2025, he became the first person to reach a net worth of half a trillion dollars ($500 billion).

Musk’s money would be worth $15,000 to everyone in the world!

A month later, Tesla shareholders approved a record compensation package for him, which was reportedly worth up to $1 trillion. But in June 2026, Musk’s net worth jumped from billions to trillions after his rocket maker and satellite operator SpaceX—which also owns X, Grock, and Starlink—went public.

How big is a trillion dollars?

More than 200 trips to the moon

If trillion-dollar bills were laid out end-to-end, they would stretch about 97 million miles. That’s enough distance to travel from Earth to the moon more than 200 times. It is even greater than the distance from the Earth to the Sun.

$122 for every person on earth: The current world population is 8.2 billion. With this $1 trillion, it is possible to give every person on earth $122 (about 15,004 taka in Bangladeshi currency).

Bigger than countries and economies

This $1 trillion is more than twice the annual GDP of Musk's homeland, South Africa. Currently, only 21 countries in the world have a GDP of more than $1 trillion. Even the market value of Musk's SpaceX company is higher than the economies of many countries.

Huge housing and energy capacity

According to the average price of homes sold in the United States, it is possible to buy about 2.5 million homes with this money. If you look at the energy market, this money can buy 243 billion gallons of gasoline, which is much more than the total gasoline consumption in the United States last year.

Musk compared to the world's richest people

How mountainous Musk's wealth is can be understood in comparison with others. Musk is about $700 billion ahead of Google's Larry Page, the world's second richest person. Musk's wealth is even greater than the combined wealth of the four richest people after Musk on the Forbes list.

Where was Elon Musk born

Born in Pretoria, South Africa, Elon Musk was very energetic from a young age. He showed business acumen in his childhood - he would go door to door with his brother and sell his handmade chocolate Easter eggs. Not only that, he created his first computer game at the age of 12.

However, his childhood was not easy at all. Due to the separation of his parents, bullying from classmates at school, and Asperger's syndrome, he had to face a lot of adversity in social interactions. He dreamed of getting out of this difficult situation. So, as soon as he got the opportunity, he moved far away from his home under the pretext of studying. First to Canada and then to the United States and enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania, where he completed his studies in economics and physics.

How he made his fortune

A few days after enrolling in a physics graduate program at Stanford University, Musk dropped out of school to focus on business. In the 1990s, he founded two technology start-ups. One of them was an online banking company that later became PayPal. He sold it to eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002.

He invested that money in SpaceX and Tesla. SpaceX aimed to build rockets at a lower cost than NASA, and he joined Tesla as CEO in 2008. Both companies have revolutionized the world's industries after overcoming various financial crises.

In October 2022, Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, which is now worth $9.4 billion. His goal was to make it an app for everything. However, many companies have moved away from the platform under Musk's leadership due to allegations of increased hate speech.

He is also quite active in the world of artificial intelligence or AI. Although he was an early investor in OpenAI, he later split and founded 'XAI' in 2023. A lawsuit he filed against OpenAI and its head Sam Altman was dismissed by a court in May 2026.

How many children does Elon Musk have

Elon Musk has 14 children. Of these, six are with his first wife, three with Canadian singer Claire Ellis Bushey or Grimes, four with Neuralink executive Siobhan Gillis, and