Forbes company recently conducted a survey to figure out the world’s Billionaires list and has released it listing the top 20 names of the Billionaires. The company says that for the third time in the last three years the world has a new richest man for this year. So it means that Bill Gates was beaten up by someone else in world. Who is the new richest man in the world?

Forbes.Com announced the richest man in world and this time it is not Bill Gates. But it is Carlos Slim Helu who is into Telecom industry. Carlos lives in Mexico and he had the third richest man’s place last year. Having shown a Net worth of $ 53.5 Billion, Carlos has increased $18.5 Billion in a year. Carlos swooped on the privatization of Mexico’s national telephone service during the last decade and now has achieved the world’s first richest man.

Following Carlos, in the second position is Bill Gates with the Nett worth of $53 Billion. As Bill Gates requires no great introduction, lets move on to the next place. The third place is occupied by Warren Buffett followed by Mukesh Ambani and Lakshmi Mittal in fourth and fifth places respectively.

The top 20 names of world’s richest people, their occupation and the Nett worth that they hold are

S.No	Name	Nett Worth (in $ Billion)	Source of Income
1	Carlos Slim Helu	53.5	Telecom
2	Bill Gates	53	Microsoft
3	Warren Buffett	47	Investments
4	Mukesh Ambani	29	Petrochemical, Oil and Gas
5	Lakshmi Mittal	28.7	Steel
6	Lawrence Ellison	28	Oracle
7	Bernard Arnault	27.5	Luxury Goods
8	Eike Batista	27	Mining, Oil
9	Amancio Ortega	25	Fashion, Retail
10	Karl Albrecht	23.5	Supermarkets
11	Ingvar Kamprad and Family	23	IKEA
12	Christy Walton and Family	22.5	Wal-Mart
13	Stefan Persson	22.4	H & M
14	Li Ka-shing	21	Diversified
15	Jim C. Walton	20.7	Wal-Mart
16	Alice Walton	20.6	Wal-Mart
17	Liliane Bettencourt	20	L’Oreal
18	S. Robson Walton	19.8	Wal-Mart
19	Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Alsaud	19.4	Diversified
20	David Thomson and Family	19	Thomson Reuters

Source: Forbes and Image Credit : kevindooley

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