Richest persons list: Dangote slides to 37th in 24 hours

Billionaire business mogul, Aliko Dangote, slid down 14 places to 37^th position in the World Richest Persons list within 24 hours.

Dangote, the President, Dangote Group, who remains Africa’s richest person, was ranked 23^rd on Thursday by Forbes.

A check on Forbes website on Friday, however, revealed that the business mogul, who is said to be worth about $21bn, is now ranked 37^th richest person.

Before Thursday’s ranking as the world’s 23^rd richest person, Dangote, the first black person to be so ranked, occupied the 43^rd position in the world.

Rank	Name	Worth	Country of Citizenship
1	Bill Gates	$82.1 bn	US
2	Carlos Slim Helu & family	$80.2 bn	Mexico
3	Warren Buffett	$70.2 bn	US
4	Amancio Ortega	$58.1 bn	Spain
5	Larry Ellison	$50.2 bn	US
6	Charles Koch	$42.6 bn	US
6	David Koch	$42.6 bn	US
8	Christy Walton & family	$38.5 bn	US
9	Jim Walton	$37.2 bn	US
10	Michael Bloomberg	$35.8 bn	US
11	Alice Walton	$35.7 bn	US
12	Robson Walton	$35.7 bn	US
13	Liliane Bettencourt & family	$35.4 bn	France
14	Mark Zuckerberg	$33.2 bn	US
15	Bernard Arnault & family	$31.2 bn	France
16	Stefan Persson	$31 bn	Sweden
17	Li Ka-shing	$30.9 bn	Hong Kong
18	Sheldon Adelson	$30.3 bn	US
19	Larry Page	$30.1 bn	US
20	Sergey Brin	$29.6 bn	US
21	Jeff Bezos	$27.7 bn	US
22	Carl Icahn	$25.7 bn	US
23	Michele Ferrero & family	$24.9 bn	Italy
24	David Thomson & family	$24.2 bn	Canada
25	George Soros	$24 bn	US
26	Forrest Mars Jr	$23.8 bn	US
26	Jacqueline Mars	$23.8 bn	US
26	John Mars	$23.8 bn	US
29	Jack Ma	$23.5 bn	China
30	Steve Ballmer	$23.1 bn	US
31	Mukesh Ambani	$22.6 bn	India
32	Jorge Paulo Lemann	$22.2 bn	Brazil
33	Lee Shau Kee	$22.1 bn	Hong Kong
34	Phil Knight	$22 bn	US
35	Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud	$21.5 bn	Saudi Arabi
36	Michael Dell	$21.4 bn	US
37	Aliko Dangote	$21.3 bn	Nigeria
38	Dilip Shanghvi	$19.6 bn	India
39	Len Blavatnik	$19.2 bn	US
40	Tadashi Yanai & family	$18.4 bn	Japan
41	Leonardo Del Vecchio	$18.1 bn	Italy
42	Alisher Usmanov	$17.8 bn	Russia
43	Laurene Powell Jobs & family	$17.2 bn	US
44	Robin Li	$17.1 bn	China
45	Paul Allen	$17.1 bn	US
46	Theo Albrecht Jr & family	$16.9 bn	Germany
47	Michael Otto & family	$16.6 bn	Germany
48	Charles Ergen	$16.6 bn	US
49	Masayoshi Son	$16.5 bn	Japan
50	Anne Cox Chambers	$16.1 bn	US

...Punch