The richest man in the world is an old acquaintance of the Forbes list of the richest and remains firmly in the saddle. In its latest report, the American magazine Forbes also notes that there are currently 1,810 billionaires in the world, who have a total fortune of 6,480 billion US dollars. Only 190 of them are women.
The richest man in the world is according to the magazine's research Forbes for the third year in a row Bill Gates. The 60-year-old founder of Microsoft po report for 2016 sits on assets worth 75 billion US dollars, and his pile decreased by 4.2 billion compared to the previous year. Bill Gates is subscribed to the first place on the Forbes list, as he was declared the richest man in the world already 17th time in the last 22 years. He came closest to him this time Amancio Ortega, a 79-year-old Spaniard who is making fabulous profits in the fashion industry. Property of the founder of the textile giant Inditex, which also owns the brand Zara, is estimated at 67 billion dollars. This is 2.5 billion more than last year, which pushed it from fourth place to second.
He did not let the third place out of his hands Warren Buffett, which won the lowest rung with an "estimate" of 60.8 billion dollars. Follow him Carlos Slim, the Mexican telecommunications tycoon, is the biggest loser on Forbes' 2016 list, with his fortune down by as much as $27.1 billion, making him the year's biggest loser across the board, though not as many places. On the other hand, the biggest jump in the rankings was achieved by "milk tooth" Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) and To Jeff Bezos (Amazon), which broke into the top ten richest for the first time, where they made it from 16th or 15th place. The father of Facebook moved to sixth place with $44.6 billion in assets (11.2 billion more than last year), and the aforementioned 52-year-old CEO of the online colossus remains ahead of him this year. Amazon, which is valued at $45.2 billion, bumping it up to fifth place.
Of the women listed 190 (197 last year), is the richest Liliane Bettencourt. The French L'Oréal heiress is in 11th place with a fortune of $36.1 billion. The youngest billionaires are a Norwegian teenager and a professional equestrian Alexandra Andresen and her sister Katharina Andresen (they own 42% of their father's Tiedemanns tobacco empire).
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According to the latest data from the magazine Forbes (estimates are formed by tracking the ownership of shares, real estate and luxury items), the world lives 1810 billionaires, which is a slight drop compared to the year before, when Forbes listed them as 1,826. As some lost their billionaire status, the total value of assets also melted, which "crashed" from 7,050 billion to 6480 billion dollars. Forbes attributes the fall to turbulent events in world markets. It made it to the list of the richest people in the world for 2016 198 newcomers. Most of them come from China (70), but otherwise the status of the country with the most billionaires remains firmly in the hands of the USA, which has 540, followed by China in second place with 251. In Europe, you will find a billionaire the easiest in Germany, where there are 120. It is followed by India with 84 and Russia with 77 billionaires.
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