Forbes Announcing The World’s Top 20 Billionaires
- by Suganya
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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