U.S. "Forbes" has published On Wednesday evening the annual Polish time list of billionaires. According to forecasts from Bill Gates officially ceased to be the world's richest man
Never before in the world was not so many people with a fortune of more than a billion dollars. Of the 214 new billion, who appeared on the list for the first time until the 108 comes from the so-called. BRIC countries. Yes, economists define the four rising economic powers, namely Brazil, Russia, India and China. Every fourth
billionaire has come from one of these four countries (five years ago it was a one in five billionaire). A year ago, only in the U.S. lived more than a hundred billionaires. This year, the United States also joined China (115 billionaires) and Russia (101). In Asia today is more billionaires than in Europe.
the world's richest person on the list of Forbes' second consecutive year is a Mexican investor Carlos Slim , who in 2010 earned 20.5 billion dollars. and today is worth 74 billion dollars. In second place was Bill Gates, who last year earned only $ 3 billion. and today has assets worth 56 billion dollars. The third is the American stock market investor Warren Buffett, which was valued at 50 billion dollars.
Gates probably would maintain the first position, were it not for the fact that his wife gave more than 30 billion dollars. his charitable foundation.
six billionaires on the list earned the creation of Facebook. The President of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg is worth 13.5 billion dollars. 26-year-old Dustin Moskovitz, one of the founders of Facebook, is the youngest person on the list of Forbes. Zuckerberg is older by six days.
10 richest people in the world according to Forbes are:
first Carlos Slim, the second
Bill Gates;
third Warren Buffett;
4th Bernard Arnault (LVMH creator, companies trading in luxury goods);
5th Larry Ellison (Oracle founder of computer company);
6th Lakshmi Mittal (owner of the largest steel manufacturer in the world);
7th Amancio Ortega (owner of clothing stores, including Zara);
8th Eike Batista (Brazilian stock market investor);
9th Mukesh Ambani (Indian giant oil and gas);
10th Christy Walton (the richest woman in the world, co-owner Wal-Mart).
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