20 10 the top ten richest people in the world

1. Carlos. Slim (Mexico) with assets of $53.5 billion. Gates (USA)-$53 billion, Microsoft 3. Warren. Buffett (USA)-$47 billion, Berkshire Hathaway Investment Company 4. Mukesh. Mukesh Ambani (India)-US$ 29 billion, Reliance Industrial Company, engaged in petrochemical, oil and natural gas business. 5. Laxmi? Lakshmi Mittal (India)-$28.7 billion steel giant. Larry? Larry Ellision (USA)-$28 billion, Oracle Bone Inscriptions 7. Bernard? Arnot (French)-$27.5 billion, Louis Vuitton 8. Ek？ Eike batista (Brazil)-$27 billion, mining and oil industry. Amancio? Amancio ortega (Spain)-$25 billion, retail 10. Karl albrecht (German)-$23.5 billion, supermarket chain industry.

20 10 Forbes Global Rich List was released in new york on June 5438+00. Mexican telecom tycoon carlos slim helu became the richest man in the world, while Bill Gates fell from the top to the second. This is also the third time that the world's richest man has changed hands in the past three years.

In the latest ranking, Chinese mainland has 64 rich people on the list, ranking second for the first time, second only to the United States.

/kloc-squeezed out Americans for the first time in 0/6.

This is the 24th time that Forbes has published this list of global billionaires. Forbes said that the average net worth of global billionaires this year was $35 billion, an increase of $500 million over last year. The number of billionaires whose net worth exceeds 10 has also increased from 793 last year to101/this year.

In the first few rich lists, the Japanese always occupied the first place until Gates jumped to the top with 1994. Gates has been the richest man in the world for many years. In 2008, Buffett replaced Gates as the richest man, and Gates regained the title in 2009. It is reported that this is the first time since 16 that a non-American has topped the list, and it is also the first time that a rich man from a developing country has become the richest man in the world.

Slim is a descendant of Lebanese immigrants and began to make money at the age of 10. 1990, Slim persuaded then Mexican President Salinas to buy Telemex and Telemex Northwest of Mexico, which were on the verge of bankruptcy at the price of1700 million dollars, laying the foundation for him to become a super-rich. For more than 40 years, he has lived in an ordinary house and has not changed places. The suit on me is not an international brand, but a plastic watch on my wrist.

In the past 15 years, Microsoft founder Bill Gates 14 was the richest man in the world. Last year, Microsoft's share price rose by 50%, and Gates' total wealth increased by about $654.38+0.3 billion.

Last year, Buffett's total wealth increased by $654.38+00 billion. Buffett said: "We have invested a lot in the market chaos in the past two years. Once the situation improves, gold begins to fall from the sky, and we can always catch the barrel to meet it. "

Mukesh, who graduated from stanford graduate school of business, is introverted, low-key and conservative, and often lacks self-confidence in public because of his poor eloquence. But when it comes to his career, he is not very modest: "There are only two companies in the world that can build large-scale projects from scratch-only Microsoft and my company."

Indian steel giants can buy luxury homes for 70 million pounds; He put his baby daughter's wedding banquet in the French palace; His steel empire is very huge, from the former state-owned steel mills in Kazakhstan, through Europe and Africa, to the United States.