Greta Thunberg Net Worth
$1 Million

• Greta Thunberg’s net worth is reportedly to be around $1 million.
• She is an internationally renowned climate change activist
• Greta rose to fame in 2018 after skipping school to protest climate change inaction at the Swedish parliament
• She led the world’s largest climate change demonstration in September 2019, which was attended by over four million people
• Greta Thunberg has been named as one of the world’s most influential children, and one of the world’s most influential women, by a number of leading ranking publications
• Currently aged 17, she is one of the most recognisable public figures of the past decade
• She has declined many major awards, including the 2019 Nordic Council Environment Award, due to her commitment to keeping attention on her cause, rather than on her fame
• Greta became Time Magazine’s Person of the Year in 2019

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How Much is Greta Thunberg’s Net Worth?

Greta Thunberg’s exact net worth & true wealth is currently unknown. However, most conservative estimates claim she has a net worth of approximately $1 million, mainly due to her powerful social media presence and number of followers.

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Greta Thunberg Net Worth: How Was It Made?

Plenty of speculation abounds regarding Greta Thunberg’s actual net worth, how she made her money, and what – if any – investments she possesses. It’s known that Greta comes from a comfortably middle-class Swedish family; her mother is an opera singer, and her father is an actor, and as such, her initial rise to worldwide fame was partly funded and financially encouraged by her parents.

However, many of the donations made by the Greta Thunberg Foundation, the charity she founded in 2018, are considerably larger than any ordinary teenager could hope to afford. For example, in 2020, Greta donated $100,000 to UNICEF in their drive to raise funds with which to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. The donation was matched by the NGO, and this prompted many around the world to question just where these funds are coming from.

While many assume that her huge social media presence (Greta has over four million Twitter followers and an Instagram following exceeding one million subscribers) generates no shortage of advertising revenue, this has never been confirmed. Greta has insisted that her donations come from prize money which she refuses to accept for personal use, and this seems to be the most likely source of her foundation’s revenue. It’s certainly true that she has received $100,000 in prize money from the Danish charity, Human Act, which was granted for her contribution to ‘worldwide activism’. It is also rumoured that she received $1 million from a British charity in 2019, although this is yet to be confirmed.

Greta Thunberg’s globe-trotting activism, which has seen her travel by solar-powered boat from Europe to the USA, and has led her to attend a plethora of high-ranking events, summits, and conferences across the globe, has all been funded by private and charitable sponsors.

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Greta Thunberg Facts

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Greta Thunberg Social Media Profiles

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Greta Thunberg Biography

Greta Thunberg, whose full name is Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg, was born in the Swedish capital of Stockholm on the 3rd of January, 2003. She is internationally renowned as being a high-profile environmental activist, who has spent the past couple of years working tirelessly to raise awareness of and tackle the issues relating to climate change. She is the founder of the movement Fridays for Future – also known as School Strikes for Climate – which is a movement formed in 2018, as well as the Greta Thunberg Foundation.

Greta was born to an opera singer mother, and a father who worked as an actor. Her parents have regularly spoken of her childhood struggles, including long periods of muteness and depression, which were partly attributed to her being diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, considered to be an Autism Spectrum Disorder. Individuals with Asperger Syndrome typically struggle with issues relating to abnormalities in social interaction (as is the case with most forms of autism), and yet maintain standard language and intelligence development. It is typical for those with Asperger Syndrome to be drawn to singular subjects and points of focus and interest, and in Greta’s case, this singular point of interest was climate change. According to interviews with Greta and her family, she first learnt of man-made climate change at the age of eight years old, and within a few short years, her fascination and concern with the subject has led her to make certain significant changes to her life and outlook. She became a vegan on the grounds that the livestock industry is a significant contributor of greenhouse gases, and she refused to travel by airplane for the same reason.

During her teenage years, it became apparent to Greta that making personal changes wasn’t enough. Seeking to create a more significant impact, Thunberg devised a way to attract the attention of lawmakers and government officials, and to spur them into action on climate change. For three weeks during the run-up to the Swedish elections in September 2018, Greta skipped school in order to sit outside of the parliament building in Stockholm, carrying a homemade sign which stated “Skolstrejk for Klimatet” (School Strike for Climate). Despite being alone on the first day of her protest, each day brought with it more and more participants keen to help raise awareness of the issue at hand.

Before long, the story of Greta Thunberg’s school strike began to garner both national and international attention. Following the election, Greta opted to return to school. However, she committed herself to a weekly strike on every Friday, in a move she named “Fridays for Future”. Her actions and the movement she created struck a deep chord with children and students across the globe, who autonomously set up their own Fridays for Future strikes. Within a matter of weeks, such strikes were held in Canada and the USA, Finland, Denmark, the UK, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

As her fame and international reputation increased, Greta received numerous invitations to speak at events and share her thoughts on climate change. She delivered keynotes at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and was invited to speak at the European Parliament. As the interest in the impassioned teenager continued, Greta was brought to the parliaments of the United Kingdom, France, and Italy, and to the house of representatives in the United States.

September 2019 was perhaps her most high-profile month, as she opted to travel to a UN climate event held in New York City. Sticking to her no-flying principles, Greta travelled to the US by an emissions-free yacht, and the whole world followed her journey across the Atlantic. While at the UN summit, Greta Thunberg delivered perhaps her most iconic speech, in which she accused heads of state of stealing her dreams and childhood, and focusing on economic growth through a period of mass extinction. Her final words, ‘How dare you!’ reverberated around the world, and inspired millions of protesters to strike for the climate in 163 different countries.

As one might expect, Greta Thunberg’s message and passion has been met with scepticism by many leaders and high-profile media commentators. The influence of Greta Thunberg among the younger generation (known as ‘the Greta effect’ has been met with heavy criticism, notably by Brazilian President Bolsonaro (who called her a ‘brat’) and by Donald Trump.

As well as her tireless campaigning for the environment, Thunberg has also been lauded for her efforts in raising awareness of Asperger Syndrome, and bringing inspiration to others who have the disorder. While she has acknowledged that Asperger Syndrome has held her back through her childhood, she has also been keen to point out its advantages. Indeed, she famously stated that ‘being different’ has become a superpower, and one she will continue to take full advantage of.