Forbes Magazine released its 30th annual list of the world’s richest people, featuring 1,810 billionaires around the world. Their total net worth was $6.48 trillion.
- Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates sat again at top position for the third consecutive year with a net worth of $75 billion.
- The US has 540 billionaires followed by mainland China with 251 and Germany with 120.
| Rank | Name | Net Worth | Source | Country |
| 1 | Bill Gates (60) | $75 B | Microsoft | United States |
| 2 | Amancio Ortega (79) | $67 B | Zara | Spain |
| 3 | Warren Buffett (85) | $60.8 B | Berkshire Hathaway | United States |
| 4 | Carlos Slim Helu (76) | $50 B | Telecom | Mexico |
| 5 | Jeff Bezos (52) | $45.2 B | Amazon.com | United States |
| 6 | Mark Zuckerberg (31) | $44.6 B | United States | |
| 7 | Larry Ellison (71) | $43.6 B | Oracle | United States |
| 8 | Michael Bloomberg (74) | $40 B | Bloomberg LP | United States |
| 9 | Charles Koch (80) | $39.6 B | Diversified | United States |
| 9 | David Koch (75) | $39.6 B | Diversified | United States |
- The youngest billionaire in the world is a 19 year old Norwegain heiress, Alexandra Andresen, who has a 42% in her family’s business.
Among Indian Billionaires:
There are 84 Indian billionaires listed in the Forbes annual ranking of the world’s billionaires for 2016, which is topped by Mukesh Ambani while IndiGo’s Father and son Kapil and Rahul Bhatia made their debut in list with a net worth of $3.1 billion.
Here is the list of top 10 Indian Billionaires:
| Rank | Name | Net Worth | Source |
| 36 | Mukesh Ambani (58) | $20.6B | Reliance |
| 44 | Dilip Shanghvi (60) | $16.7 B | Sun Pharmaceuticals |
| 55 | Azim Premji (70) | $15 B | Wipro Ltd |
| 88 | Shiv Nadar (70) | $11.1 B | HCL |
| 133 | Cyrus Poonawalla (74) | $8.5 B | Serum Institute of India |
| 135 | Laxmi Mittal (65) | $8.4 B | Steel |
| 184 | Uday Kotak (56) | $6.3 B | Kotak Mahindra |
| 196 | Kumar Birla (48) | $6.1 B | Aditya Birla group |
| 219 | Sunil Mittal (58) | $5.7 B | Bharti Airtel |
- There are 5 Indian women billionaires who have marked their names in the list and are – Savitri Jindal (OP Jindal group), Indu Jain (Bennett, Coleman & Co), Smita Crishna Godrej (Godrej), Leena Tiwari (USV) and Vinod Gupta (Havells India).
- The youngest Indian billionaires are the Bansal duo of Flipkart – Sachin and Binny Bansal with net worth of 1.2 billion.
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