The World's Billionaires
The list of The World's Billionaires is a published annually since 1987 by the U.S. business magazine Forbes compilation that lists all individuals worldwide whose estimated personal fortune exceeds one billion U.S. dollars. Billion in English means one billion in German. Dictators and members of royal families are not included in this list.
Overview
Carlos Slim Helú currently leads to a Mexican entrepreneur in the telecommunications industry, the list. Before that, the Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates was at the head. Your assets are still smaller than the total assets of the Walton family, owners of the U.S. retail giant Wal- Mart, but these are given together with $ 83 billion individually on another list seats. The members of the royal families in Saudi Arabia and Brunei are not listed, but are also partly as a rich.
Between 1996 and 2006, the number of billionaires, according to Forbes rose worldwide from 423 to 946 after the cumulative total assets of all persons named in the list declined from 2001 to 2003, it rose again in 2005 to 300 billion to the sum of 2.2 trillion now U.S. dollar. By 2008, the total assets rose to more than four trillion dollars and distributed to 1,125 people. In the wake of the international financial and economic crisis that began in 2008, the number of dollar billionaires dropped from the list in March 2009 to 793 people with a total of approximately 2.4 trillion (2,400 billion ) dollars in assets. But these remaining people lost 1,400 billion U.S. dollars. 2013, the total assets of persons listed in the Forbes list of 1462 amounted to 5.2 trillion ( 5,236 billion ) dollars.
As of 2013, according to this list of billionaires in 1462, most Americans (441 persons ), followed by Russians (110 people) and Chinese (100 people). Germany (see also Chronology of the richest Germans and list of the 500 richest Germans ) is listed with 58 billionaires, with Karl Albrecht, one of the owners of Aldi, number 18 to be the richest. 's Most Swiss of 13 people is number 94 Ernesto Bertarelli, former President of the Board of biotechnology company Serono. Richest Austrians of eight people is at No. 162 Dietrich Mateschitz, co-founder of the energy drink producer Red Bull
The World's Billionaires List 2013
- The top 5 richest people in the world
Carlos Slim Helú (Mexico)
Amancio Ortega ( Spain)
Warren Buffett (United States)
Larry Ellison (United States)
Legend:
- Maintained ▬ position the previous year.
- ▲ won item (s) to the previous year and increased assets.
- ▼ lost item (s) to the previous year and decreased capacity.
Former lists
2005
The list for 2005 called 581 billionaires excluding dictators and members of royal families.