Tuesday, 3 March 2015

Bill Gates tops chat of richest people in the world again

Bill Gates has been declared the richest man in the world for the 16th time, by Forbes. His fortune grew $3.2 billion since last year to $79.2 billion, despite a gift of $1.5 billion in Microsoft shares to The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in November 2014. 

Carlos Slim Helu of Mexico comes in again at No. 2 while revered American investor Warren Buffett took back the No. 3 spot from Spain’s Amancio Ortega (now No. 4).

This year’s rich list features a record 1,826 billionaires across the world with an aggregate net worth of $7.05 trillion, up from last year's $6.4 trillion. 197 of them are women, 290 newcomers and 29 self-made. 71 of them hail from China and a record of 46 billionaires are under the age of 40.

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg moves up 5 spots to number 16, his first time ranked among the world’s 20 richest and Zuckerberg is also the leader in a youth revolution that has minted 46 billionaires under the age of 40. The youngest billionaire on the planet is Evan Spiegel, 24, co-founder of photo- messaging app Snapchat.

Included in the list for the first time are the two co-founders of taxi app Uber - Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp - and the first person they hired, Ryan Graves.

Kalanick and Camp have a net worth of $5.3billion each, while Graves, who answered a job advert on Twitter five years ago with the words “hire me” is now worth $1.4billion.

The year’s biggest loser in dollar terms is Aliko Dangote of Nigeria, whose fortune dropped to $14.7 billion from $25 billion last year, propelled downward by a weaker Nigerian currency and shrinking demand for cement, his largest asset. He still retains the title of Africa’s richest man. 

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