Who are the World’s Richest People in 2011?

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