The following list is Forbes ranking of an assessment of the wealth and assets of the world's billionaires as of March 10, 2011, and does not reflect changes since then. There are 1,210 names in this year’s list.
This is the 25th year the rich list had tracked the richest people on the planet, here is the top 20 from 2012.
jim Walton.
21.1 billion - as of september 2011
source - Wallmart
age - 63
USA
Sheldon Adelson
21.5 billion - as of september 2011
Source - Casinos, self made
age - 77
USA
David Thomson
23 billion - as of march 2011
source - media, inherited
age - 53
Canada
Liliane Bettencourt
23.5 billion - as of march 2011
Source - L'oreal, inherited
age - 88
France
Vladimir Lisin
24 billion - as of march 2011
Source - steel, self made
age - 54
Russia
Stefan Persson
24.5 billion - march 2011
Hennes & mauritz
63
Sweden
Christy Walton
24.5 billion - september 2011
Walmart
56
USA
David kotch
25 billion
Diversified, inherited and growing
70
USA
Charles koch
25 billion - september 2011
Diversified, inherited and growing
75
USA
26 billion - march 2011
Diversified, self made
82
Hong kong
Mukesh Ambani
27 billion - march 2011
Petrochemicals, oil and gas
53
India
Eike Batista
30 billion - march 2011
Mining, oil
54
Brazil
Amancio Ortega
31 billion - march 2011
Zara, self made
74
Spain
Lakshmi Mittal
31.1 billion - march 2011
Steel
60
India
Larry ellison
33 billion - september 2011
Oracle
66
USA
Warren Buffet
39 billion - september 2011
Berkshire hathaway
80
USA
Bernard Arnault
41 billion - march 2011
LVMH
62
France
Bill Gates
59 billion - september 2011
Microsoft
55
USA
Carlos Slim Helu
74 billion - march 2011
Telecom
71
Mexico
Some of the numbers here are astonishing, $74 billion earned in a year, i mean its number so big you cant even comprehend them. Nobody need that amount of money.
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