Sources & References
Every figure cited on the Send Elon to Mars and trillionaire pages, with its source. These are verified sources only - peer-reviewed studies, UN and health agencies, institutional trackers, and major outlets. The figures are independent estimates and projections of the consequences of the 2025 US foreign-aid cuts; they are contested by the administration.
Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire.
His net worth crossed $1 trillion on 12 June 2026, when SpaceX began trading on the Nasdaq (the largest IPO on record); with his Tesla stake, roughly $1.05 trillion.
- News
- News
USAID cuts: up to 14 million additional deaths by 2030, including over 4.5 million children under five.
A peer-reviewed forecast of mortality from defunding USAID across health, nutrition, water/sanitation and humanitarian programmes, covering 133 countries.
- Peer-reviewed study
- Institutional tracker
- Policy analysis
PEPFAR / HIV cuts: up to ~4 million additional AIDS-related deaths (2025-2029), including ~300,000 children.
The ~4 million / ~300,000-children figure is the UNAIDS projection if US-supported HIV programmes permanently collapse (PEPFAR had supported HIV treatment for about 20.6 million people). A separate Lancet HIV modelling study estimates a different, wider range - roughly 0.8 to 2.9 million additional HIV deaths by 2030 (up to ~120,000 children).
- UN agency
- Peer-reviewed study
Malaria: ~15 million more cases and ~107,000 additional deaths in a single year.
Impact of US cuts to malaria programmes, flagged by the WHO (Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus); the US had been the largest bilateral donor to malaria control. The ~107,000 figure sits within the projected range of ~71,000-166,000 additional deaths per year.
- UN agency / News
Child malnutrition: ~1 million children denied treatment for severe acute malnutrition → ~163,500 additional child deaths per year.
USAID funded about half the global supply of ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF). Combined with other donors' cuts, the projected toll roughly doubles to ~369,000/yr.
- Peer-reviewed study
- Scientific journal (news)
Not in this list: the grocery, fuel, rent, wage and exchange-rate figures on the trillionaire calculator are clearly-labelled editorial ballpark estimates, set by hand to illustrate scale - not drawn from the sources above. They recalculate the moment you enter your own region or wage.