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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