The World’s Top 50 Billionaires

The World’s Top 50 Billionaires -For the third time in three years, the world has a new richest man.
Riding surging prices of his various telecom holdings, including giant mobile outfit America Movil, Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim Helu has beaten out Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the wealthiest person on earth and nab the top spot on the 2010 Forbes list of the World’s Billionaires

Rank	Name	Citizenship	Age	Net Worth ($bil)	Residence
1	Carlos Slim Helu & family	Mexico	70	53.5	Mexico
2	William Gates III	United States	54	53.0	United States
3	Warren Buffett	United States	79	47.0	United States
4	Mukesh Ambani	India	52	29.0	India
5	Lakshmi Mittal	India	59	28.7	United Kingdom
6	Lawrence Ellison	United States	65	28.0	United States
7	Bernard Arnault	France	61	27.5	France
8	Eike Batista	Brazil	53	27.0	Brazil
9	Amancio Ortega	Spain	74	25.0	Spain
10	Karl Albrecht	Germany	90	23.5	Germany
11	Ingvar Kamprad & family	Sweden	83	23.0	Switzerland
12	Christy Walton & family	United States	55	22.5	United States
13	Stefan Persson	Sweden	62	22.4	Sweden
14	Li Ka-shing	Hong Kong	81	21.0	Hong Kong
15	Jim Walton	United States	62	20.7	United States
16	Alice Walton	United States	60	20.6	United States
17	Liliane Bettencourt	France	87	20.0	France
18	S. Robson Walton	United States	66	19.8	United States
19	Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud	Saudi Arabia	55	19.4	Saudi Arabia
20	David Thomson & family	Canada	52	19.0	Canada
21	Michael Otto & family	Germany	66	18.7	Germany
22	Lee Shau Kee	Hong Kong	82	18.5	Hong Kong
23	Michael Bloomberg	United States	68	18.0	United States
24	Sergey Brin	United States	36	17.5	United States
24	Charles Koch	United States	74	17.5	United States
24	David Koch	United States	69	17.5	United States
24	Larry Page	United States	37	17.5	United States
28	Michele Ferrero & family	Italy	83	17.0	Monaco
28	Kwok family	Hong Kong	NA	17.0	Hong Kong
28	Azim Premji	India	64	17.0	India
31	Theo Albrecht	Germany	88	16.7	Germany
32	Vladimir Lisin	Russia	53	15.8	Russia
33	Steven Ballmer	United States	54	14.5	United States
33	Robert Kuok	Malaysia	86	14.5	Hong Kong
35	George Soros	United States	79	14.0	United States
36	Anil Ambani	India	50	13.7	India
37	Paul Allen	United States	57	13.5	United States
37	Michael Dell	United States	45	13.5	United States
39	Mikhail Prokhorov	Russia	44	13.4	Russia
40	Birgit Rausing & family	Sweden	86	13.0	Switzerland
40	Shashi & Ravi Ruia	India	66	13.0	India
42	Mikhail Fridman	Russia	45	12.7	Russia
43	Jeffrey Bezos	United States	46	12.3	United States
44	Savitri Jindal	India	60	12.2	India
45	Donald Bren	United States	77	12.0	United States
45	Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family	United Kingdom	58	12.0	United Kingdom
45	John Paulson	United States	54	12.0	United States
48	Abigail Johnson	United States	48	11.5	United States
48	Jorge Paulo Lemann	Brazil	70	11.5	Brazil
50	Roman Abramovich	Russia	43	11.2	Russia

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