Carlos Slim beat Bill Gates became the richest man in the world
Re-released Forbes list of richest people in the world. Carlos Slim, the Mexican telecom entrepreneur, back to being the richest man in the world for two consecutive years. Slim's wealth last year rose a third fold.
Slim beat Microsoft's founder Bill Gates in wealth. Over the past year, Slim's wealth increased by 20.5 billion U.S. dollars to 74 billion U.S. dollars. While Gates at the level of 56 billion U.S. dollars.
In the list of richest people this time, there are 1210 people who entered. A total of 200 people become new entrants. There are six millionaires who became wealthy thanks to Facebook, including the founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg and Sean Parker. So is Peter Thiel, Yuri Milner, and Eduardo Saverin and Dustin Moskovitz, who became the youngest richest people in the age of 26 years.
While the richest people are property slump this year was the founder of Ikea, the furniture in European supermarkets, Ingvar Kamprad. Kamprad wealth declined from 17 billion dollars to six billion dollars. He dropped from number 11 to the order of 162.
America is the continent which accounts for most rich people, that is 413 people. While Asia for the first time in a decade to beat Europe in terms of the richest men with 332 people.
China and Russia each have 115 and 101 billionaires. While the city is Moscow's billionaires. In this city, settled 79 billionaires.
Here's a list of the world's richest people Forbes:
- Carlos Slim's 74 billion U.S. dollars
- Bill Gates' 56 billion U.S. dollars
- Warren Buffett's 50 billion U.S. dollars
- Bernard Arnault 41 billion U.S. dollars
- Larry Ellison U.S. 39.5 billion dollars
- Lakshmi Mittal 31.1 billion U.S. dollars
- Amancio Ortega, 31 billion dollars
- Eike Batista 30 billion U.S. dollars
- Mukesh Ambani's 27 billion U.S. dollars
- Christy Walton 26.5 billion U.S. dollars