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Who are the World’s Richest People in 2011?

March 10, 2011 Business Tips Leave a Comment

Who are the richest persons in the world in 2011? As of March 2011, the Forbes Magazine has published the list of the wealthiest people on the planet. Carlos Slim, who is still the world’s richest person, has widened his lead over the No. 2 Bill Gates by $18 billion. Warren Buffett is still at the third place with a net worth of $50 billion.  For this year, there are 1,210 billionaires who made it to the list, with their total net worth amounted to $4.5 trillion.

There are four Americans who are in the top ten. Among them is Christy Walton, the widow of John Walton, who runs one of the biggest companies in the world – Walmart. At no. 10, Walton is the world’s richest woman. Two billionaires from India have also made it to the top 10 (Lakshmi Mittal at No. 6 and Mukesh Ambani at No. 9). This also means that Mittal has now taken over the place of Ambani as the richest man in India and also in Asia. The following are the top ten people who are considered the richest in the world.

The top ten

Rank Name Net Worth Age Source Country
1 Carlos Slim Helu & family $74 B 71 Telecom Mexico
2 Bill Gates $56 B 55 Microsoft United States
3 Warren Buffett $50 B 80 Berkshire Hathaway United States
4 Bernard Arnault $41 B 62 LVMH France
5 Larry Ellison $39.5 B 66 Oracle United States
6 Lakshmi Mittal $31.1 B 60 Steel India
7 Amancio Ortega $31 B 74 Zara Spain
8 Eike Batista $30 B 54 Mining, oil Brazil
9 Mukesh Ambani $27 B 53 Petrochemicals, oil & gas India
10 Christy Walton & family $26.5 B 56 Walmart United States

The top 11 to 20 billionaires

Rank Name Net Worth Age Source Country
11 Li Ka-shing $26 B 82 Diversified Hongkong
12 Karl Albrecht $25.5 B 91 Aldi Germany
13 Stefan Persson $24.5 B 63 H&M Sweden
14 Vladimir Lisin $24 B 54 Steel Russia
15 Liliane Bettencourt $23.5 B 88 L’Oreal France
16 Sheldon Adelson $23.3 B 77 Casinos United States
17 David Thomson & family $23 B 53 Media Canada
18 Charles Koch $22 B 75 Diversified United States
18 David Koch $22 B 70 Diversified United States
20 Jim Walton $21.3 B 63 Walmart United States

Other notable billionaires are Google’s founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin who are tied at No. 24 with net worth of $19.8 billion each, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg who’s in the top No. 52 position with net worth of $13.5 billion, China’s richest man and founder of search site Baidu Robin Li in No. 95 with net worth amounting to $9.4 billion, Apple’s Steve Jobs in No. 110 with $8.3 billion net worth, and maker of Farmville and Mafia Wars application Zynga founder Mark Pincus who becomes a billionaire for the first time with a net worth of $1 billion as of March 2011.

Source: To read the full list please view the Forbes list of the world’s billionaires 2011 here

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