With Elon Musk’s wealth back over $1 trillion, thanks to a surge in the value of SpaceX’s stock on Monday, the question is how to represent that staggering fortune.

Musk could buy about 11,000 F-35 fighter jets. He could afford to buy all of the National Football League, National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball and National Hockey League franchises, with plenty of change to spare. Musk could buy all of Moet & Chandon’s Champagne production for the next 666 years or so.

But maybe the best comparison is with the size of national economies. Admittedly, that may anger people who don’t like comparisons between stocks — the quantity (in this case wealth) at just one period — and flows, but it probably is the best way of understanding just how rich (very) Musk is.

To keep comparison simple, MarketWatch will use gross domestic product calculations, in U.S. dollars, from the International Monetary Fund, covering 2025. The IMF, as of July, expected 2026 world GDP to grow 3%, so the figures here won’t be wildly different.

Musk, worth a cool $1 trillion according to Forbes, would slot in at No. 23 — just behind Poland, at $1.04 trillion, and ahead of Taiwan, at $920 billion.

Switzerland, at $1.04 trillion, is also within Musk’s grasp, and it wouldn’t take too much more to reach the $1.3 trillion level where he would be competitive with the economies of the Netherlands and Saudi Arabia.

On the flip side, Belgium at $725 billion and Ireland at $714 billion would be economies he’d fall behind if the Musk industrial complex were to fall into a bear market.

It’s hard to fathom how any other individual could surpass Musk’s wealth, barring some company-specific problem. Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg is No. 2 on Forbes list, worth $254 billion, and is exposed to many of the same artificial-intelligence trends as Musk.

Both SpaceX and Tesla rose in premarket trading on Tuesday.