The American magazine Forbes traditionally announced the list of the richest people in the world following the results of the past year. The 32nd annual world ranking, published on March 6, 2018, included 2,208 people from 72 countries of the globe, each of whom owns a fortune of at least $1,000,000,000. At the same time, the total amount of income of billionaires from all over planet Earth increased by 18% compared to last year and amounted to 9.1 trillion dollars. We suggest that you familiarize yourself with the list of this year and the types of activities to which billionaires owe their capital.
Businessmen, software developers, representatives of the fashion industry, publishing, the media and the mobile communications market were among the ten absolute world leaders in terms of the size of the earned fortune.
The first ten people from the list of the richest people in the world according to Forbes for 2018:
- Jeff Bezos ($112 billion) topped the 2018 Forbes Billionaire List for the first time and became the richest person in the world. The rapid rise in the price of shares of his offspring Amazon by 59% allowed the 53-year-old Bezos to add $ 39,200,000,000 to his own fortune compared to last year.
Interesting! Jeff Bezos managed not only to lead the top richest people in the world in 2018, but also to become the first billionaire whose fortune is estimated at 12 figures.
- Bill Gates ($90 billion) ranks 2nd on the Forbes list. Despite the fact that Microsoft brought him fame and the bulk of his fortune, today Gates' share in the company does not exceed 3%. Now he earns mainly from a machine-building company, an investment fund and a number of other sources.
- Warren Buffett ($84 billion) is the 3rd richest person in 2018. The 87-year-old billionaire has earned income throughout his life from the investment holding Berkshire Hathaway, which owns different shares of shares in more than 60 companies.
- Bernard Arnault ($72 billion) was able to get to 4th place in the Forbes top and increase his fortune by $30,500,000,000 (whereas in 2017 he was only in the second ten). The 69-year-old Frenchman is the sole owner of the LVMH Moët Hennessy holding, which represents the luxury brands Louis Vuitton, Sephora, Christian Dior (since 2017), etc.
- Amancio Ortega ($70 billion), founder of the Inditex holding, which includes well-known brands Zara, Bershka, Massimo Dutti and others, is the 6th billionaire in the world. The 80-year-old Spaniard also buys property in prestigious locations in Europe and America and receives solid dividends from its resale or rental.
- Carlos Slim Elu ($67.1 billion) is number seven on the Forbes World Billionaire List. The Mexican is the owner of the mobile operator America Movil, as well as a co-owner of the New York Times newspaper, a number of real estate and mining companies.
- Charles Koch ($60 billion) is on the eighth line of the 2018 Forbes top. Together with his brother, he is the owner of the Koch Industries holding. The history of the latter began in 1940, when their father founded an oil refinery.
- David Koch ($60 billion) is the second co-owner of Koch Industries, who, thanks to the decision to buy out the Times publishing house, managed to add $11,700,000,000 to his capital and take the 9th line in the rating of world billionaires.
- Larry Ellison ($58.5 billion) - American from the 10th line of the Forbes list is the founder of the Oracle IT company, which has recently been developing cloud services. Allison also actively invests in her favorite pastime, sailing, and does not spare money for charitable causes.
The richest people in Russia in 2018
Among the richest people in the world in the Forbes 2018 list, there are 102 people from Russia, whose total fortune was estimated at $410,800,000,000. Most of them made their fortune in the oil and gas sector or in other commodity markets. So, the ten most wealthy representatives of the Forbes list from Russia:
- Vladimir Lisin ($19.1 billion) - is in 2018 the richest person in Russia and is on the 57th line of the Forbes global rating. Lisin is the chairman and majority shareholder of NLMK (steel sector) and Universal Cargo Logistics Holding.
On a note! Vladimir Lisin is Vice President of the International Shooting Sports Organization. It was thanks to him that the largest rifle complex in Europe, Lisya Nora, appeared in the Moscow region.
- Alexey Mordashov ($18.7 billion) is second (as last time) among the richest Russians and 60th in the world top. The capital of the co-owner of Severstal, tour operator TUI and gold mining company Nord Gold N.V increased by $1,200,000,000.
- Leonid Mikhelson ($18 billion) - the winner of last year's Forbes Russian rating in 2018, dropped to 3rd place (64th place in the Forbes top). The fortune of the co-owner of the chemical holding "Sibur" and the largest private gas company "Novatek" decreased by $400,000,000.
- Vladimir Potanin ($15.9 billion) - ranks 6th and 83rd in the Forbes lists of Russia and the world, respectively. Owning shares in Norilsk Nickel, the Petrovax Pharm concern, and the most famous ski resort in Russia, Rosa Khutor, brought Potanin an additional $1,600,000,000.
- Andrey Melnichenko ($15.5 billion) is the main owner of EuroChem, SGK (energy) and SUEK (coal mining) in 2018 ranked 7th in Russia and 88th in the international list of billionaires according to Forbes 2018 .
- Mikhail Fridman ($15.1 billion) – $700,000,000 increase in his own finances allowed the founder of Alfa Bank, co-owner of Alfa Group and LetterOne, to be on the 8th line of the Forbes list in 2018.
- Viktor Vekselberg ($14.4 billion) - ranks 9th among the richest people in Russia (89th in the world). The lion's share of his income is now brought to him by the Suzler company from Switzerland (manufacturers of pumping equipment). In addition to her, Vekselberg also receives income from the activities of the Renova Group, of which he is the founder.
Interesting! The private collection of Viktor Vekselberg contains the most famous works of art, including 9 Faberge eggs, for which he paid the Forbes family about $ 100,000,000.
- Alisher Usmanov ($12.5 billion) - closes the top 10 richest people in Russia according to Forbes 2018 and ranks 118 in the world top. Having started a business with the production of polyethylene products during the Soviet era, today Usmanov is a co-owner of the Metalloinvest holding, Megafon, Mail.ru Group, FC Arsenal and a stake in Xiaomi.
For the fourth year in a row, the rating was topped by the owner of the telecommunications empire America Movil in Latin America. Carlos Slim Helu. It is a monopoly in this area and controls up to 90% of mobile and fixed telephone communications.
His capital is estimated at 73 billion US dollars. This amount is approximately 2-3% of Mexico's total GDP. In addition to developing his corporation, the richest person in the world is engaged in:
- tobacco production,
- financial activities,
- construction,
- mining.
- producing music artists
- charity.
In addition, Carlos Helu has already acquired 3 football clubs.
In fact, the billionaire has a network of companies in all areas of industry and life in Mexico. Every inhabitant of this country from birth to death, one way or another, uses the services of companies owned by the richest man in the world.
Carier start
Carlos Slim inherited his business acumen from his father, Julian Slim, who from an early age taught his children to control their own expenses. At first, he simply entered his income and expenses in a special notebook, and then he became seriously interested in finance. It was at the suggestion of his father that the future richest man in the world began to study the basics of stock investing and at the age of 17 he earned his first million.
Gradually, the capital increased and Carlos bought the insurance business, as well as a chain of economy class stores. Well, then everything went on increasing. He did not miss profitable offers, bought companies, updated them and sold them at a much higher price.
It was this strategy that led to the fact that Carlos Slim is by far the richest man in the world.
Top 10 according to Forbes
The remaining places in the top ten richest people in the world are as follows.
2nd place
Bill Gates
Nationality: American.
Citizenship: USA.
Status: $67 billion.
He is the co-founder and chairman of Microsoft, firmly holding the title of the largest software developer in the world. Bill Gates also has a stake in a large investment fund.
3rd place
Amancio Ortega 
Nationality: Spaniard.
Citizenship: Spain.
Net Worth: $57 billion.
Owns enterprises in the field of textile industry and trade. Amancio Ortega owns the world famous Zara brand. The businessman also invests in tourism, banking, real estate and the gas industry.
4th place
Warren Buffett 
Nationality: American.
Citizenship: USA.
Net Worth: $53.5 billion.
He got rich with the help of his own investment fund, Berkshire Hathaway. Currently, he is the owner of a whole holding engaged in insurance, investment, and production. Owns some information publications and media.
5th place
Larry Ellison 
Nationality: American.
Citizenship: USA.
Status: $43 billion.
He is at the head of Oracle and is also its largest shareholder. The corporation is engaged in software development and is second only to Microsoft in terms of sales. Allison also successfully sells server hardware.
6th and 7th place
Brothers Charles and David Koch
Nationality: American.
Citizenship: USA.
Status: $34 billion.
The brothers own an industrial concern in the field of petrochemical production. Since they have the same amount of assets, they occupy one line - 6th place. According to the rating rules, 7th place in this case is absent.
8th place
Li Ka Shing 
Nationality: Chinese.
Nationality: China.
Status: $31 billion.
Actively engaged in construction, controls up to 70% of the total cargo turnover in the Hong Kong port. It is the owner of retail chains, mobile communications and electric power enterprises.
9th place
Liliane Bettencourt
Nationality: French.
Citizenship: France.
Status: $30 billion.
Liliane Bettencourt has become the richest woman in the world. She owns the famous empire L "Oreal. Sales of branded cosmetics are constantly growing, so her appearance in the top ten Forbes has become natural.
10th place
Bernard Arnault 
Nationality: French.
Citizenship: France.
Net Worth: $29 billion.
Bernard Arnault owns 42% of the world's largest group of companies producing luxury goods - LVMN. It includes a myriad of brands such as Kenzo, Christian Lacroix, Givenchy, Dom Perignon and many more.
The situation is constantly changing, some companies are growing and developing, others are going through hard times, so the Forbes ranking of the richest people in the world is updated annually.
As you can see, there is something to strive for.)
In 2017, Bloomberg announced its annual ranking of the 500 richest people in the world. We will focus only on the top ten. So, richest people in the world according to the Big Rating magazine.
Ingvar Kamprad
The Swedish businessman's fortune is estimated at $42.8 billion. Over the past year, Kamprad has become richer by a billion dollars. As you know, he is the founder of IKEA. At the moment, Ingvar is at a pretty decent age - 90 years old. He divorced his first wife back in 1960, after ten years of marriage, married a second time in 1963, but his wife died in 2011. Now he has four children.
Larry Ellison
An American businessman has capital in $45.4 billion. He has risen quite well this year - his fortune has increased by $ 1.8 billion. He is one of the co-owners of the Oracle corporation, which is engaged in the production and release of computer hardware and software. At the moment, Ellison is 72 years old. During his turbulent life, he managed to marry and divorce as many as four times. There are two children left from the second marriage.
David Koch
Today, his condition is estimated at $47.8 billion. David increased his net worth over the past year by $8.2 billion. Now he is 76 years old and he is still married, from which he has three children.
Charles Koch
Brother of David Koch, who is also a co-owner of Koch Industries Corporation. The company has a different range of activities - from oil to polymeric materials. Like his brother, he enriched himself by 8.2 billion dollars in a year. He is married and has two children. His condition is estimated at $47.8 billion.
Carlos Slim
The sixth line of today's rating is occupied by a Mexican businessman, who dropped down from the third place in the rating. Today its budget is estimated at 53.3 billion dollars, because last year he increased his fortune by 3.3 billion dollars.
It should be noted that Slim is very versatile in terms of business projects. He owns various companies, ranging from construction to telecommunications.
At the moment he is 77 years old. He is not married, having been widowed in 1999. Six children remained from the marriage.
Mark Zuckerberg
The fifth line of the ranking is occupied by the youngest billionaire. Despite his young years, compared to his closest competitors (only 32 years old), he managed to earn $59.3 billion in past years. This year, he raised his fortune by $14.7 billion. Surprisingly, the founder of the world's largest social network Facebook leads a very modest lifestyle. He is married and had a daughter in 2015.
Amancio Ortega
The Spanish entrepreneur is steadily moving forward and takes the fourth place in the ranking, with a result of $68.9 billion. This year was successful and brought him 1.9 billion dollars. Ortega has an extensive business and is the owner of Inditex, which owns several large-scale ready-to-wear retail chains. One of them is Zara.
The Spanish billionaire is now 81 years old and has not been very lucky in marriages. His first marriage broke up and in 2001 he married again. Now he has three children (two from his first marriage and one from his second).
Jeff Bezos
The third position was quickly taken by the owner of the largest company Amazon. He is moving towards the top spot at an incredible rate, as his internet company brought him $28.1 billion this year - an incredible result. Bezos was engaged in trade, but recently he has become more actively investing in various projects from the field of new technologies. In general, he is still quite young and is now 53 years old. Has a wife and three children. Today he has $82.1 billion.
Warren Buffett
A unique person in this top, because he is exclusively engaged in investments that brought him $ 10.8 billion this year. In sum, the state of the American is estimated at about $79 billion.
Buffett is famous for his accurate market predictions. This allowed him and his clients to make profitable transactions and successfully invest money. Now he is 86 years old. His first wife died in 2004, and 2 years later he married a second time. After his first marriage, he has three children.
Bill Gates
It is not surprising that he has been at the top of the rankings for many years. The world-famous owner of Microsoft has made $10.6 billion this year. Bill's general condition is estimated at $85.6 billion. His company is the main supplier of various software all over the world. Now the businessman is 61 years old and he is married, from whom he has three children.
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In 2017, Forbes counted 2043 billionaires worldwide, a year ago there were 1810: commodity and financial markets are growing.
The combined wealth of the world's billionaires rose to $7.7 trillion from $6.5 trillion, while the average wealth increased to $3.8 billion from $3.6 billion.
The United States leads the list both in terms of the number of billionaires and the size of their total wealth.
We present the Top 10 countries by the number of billionaires living in them according to Vesti.Ekonomika.
1. USA
Number of billionaires: 565
Billionaire Net Worth: $2,800 billion
National GDP: $18,600 billion
Richest person: Bill Gates. With a fortune of $86 billion, he is the richest person in the world in 2017.
2. China
Number of billionaires: 319
Billionaire net worth: $809 billion
National GDP: $11,100 billion
Richest person: Wang Jianlin, worth $31.3 billion in 2017. Real estate and entertainment business, owner of Dalian Wanda Group, retains the title of China's richest person for the fourth year in a row.
3. Germany
Number of billionaires: 114
Billionaire net worth: $467.8 billion
National GDP: $3,500 billion
Wealthiest person: Karl Albrecht Jr. and Beate Heister (net worth $27.2 billion) are the heirs of discount chain Aldi Sud.
4. Russia
Number of billionaires: 96
Billionaire net worth: $386.3 billion
National GDP: $1200 billion
The richest person: NOVATEK Chairman of the Board Leonid Mikhelson is the richest person in Russia for the second year in a row. His fortune in 2017 is $18.4 billion.
5. India
Number of billionaires: 101
Billionaire net worth: $325.2 billion
National GDP: $2,300 billion
Richest person: Mukesh Ambani ($23.2 billion) has been the nation's richest person every year since 2003. Owns Reliance Industries, a petrochemical holding founded by his father.
6. Hong Kong
Number of billionaires: 68
Billionaire net worth: $272.1 billion
National GDP: $362 billion
Richest person: Li Ka-shing ($31.2 billion) is the richest person in Hong Kong and owns real estate developer Cheung Kong Property. Kashin invested in the Postal Savings Bank of China last year and has invested more than $28 billion in European companies over the past five years.
7. Brazil
Number of billionaires: 43
Billionaire net worth: $172.1 billion
National GDP: $1,800 billion
Richest person: Jorge Paulo Lehmann is Brazil's richest man with $22.9 billion and a shareholder in the world's largest beer company Anheuser-Busch InBev, Kraft Heinz and Burger King parent Restaurant Brands International. Lives in Switzerland.
8. UK
Number of billionaires: 55
Total net worth of billionaires: $164.4 billion
National GDP: $2,600 billion
Richest Man: With $15.4 billion, the richest people in the UK are Indian brothers Sri and Gopi Hinduja, owners of the Hinduja Group, which specializes in the automotive and defense industries.
9. Spain
Number of billionaires: 25
Billionaire net worth: $124.7 billion
National GDP: $1200 billion
Richest person: Amancio Ortega ($71.3 billion) is the richest person not only in Spain, but in all of Europe. The main source of his wealth is the company Zara, which he created in 1975.
10. Sweden
Number of billionaires: 31
Billionaire net worth: $117.5 billion
National GDP: $510.5 billion
Richest Man: H&M Chairman Stefan Persson is Sweden's richest man with a net worth of $19.9 billion. His father Erling Persson founded the chain in 1947.
In March 2017, the annual rating of billionaires was published. 1st place for the 16th time in 21 years is occupied by American Bill Gates, who regained leadership from last year after several years of superiority by Carlos Slim Ellu, the Mexican telecommunications magnate. Previously, the state of the computer genius was focused only on his own Microsoft corporation, but over the past 15 years, the businessman has been gradually reducing his stake in the company in favor of charitable work.
Forbes rating 2017
In the top of Forbes magazine, Bill Gates did not always occupy the top positions. The richest man in the world has experienced incredible falls from time to time, for example, in April 2000, about $ 12 million was lost, which hit the capital of the genius of the computer segment hard: the reason for the losses was the decline in Microsoft quotes. But this is not the only loss of the rich man's capital, he can remember about a dozen major losses, and if you add other unsuccessful business projects here, then the ascent of the richest man in the world to Olympus will no longer seem easy.
Biography of Bill Gates
The future genius was born in the American city of Seattle on October 28, 1955 in the family of a famous lawyer. His grandfather was the president of the national bank, and his great-grandfather was the mayor of the city. Little Bill grew up as a shy and unsociable boy who was not interested in games and the company of peers, which caused concern to his parents. No one then even thought that this child could change the world. But an experienced psychologist was able to discern a strong character behind the child's isolation and hastened to reassure the boy's father and mother.
Gradually, Bill Gates began to show unique mathematical abilities, and the rich heir wrote his first computer program at the age of 15. It was a traffic control project that earned the programmer his first $20,000. Following the traditions of his family, the seventeen-year-old rich heir went to study at Harvard as a lawyer. Although the unsociable nature did not contribute to advancement in this profession, the student did not dare to quit his studies.
Only 2 years later, when Gates saw a photo of the first computer created for the mass user in Popular Electronics magazine, the future entrepreneur realized that he had a unique chance. The computer market was born before our eyes, so the world needed new software, which the computer genius did not fail to take advantage of. He created and sold the program code to MITS, after which Microsoft was born in 1975, which has been bringing new trends to the global computer market for 40 years.
How does the richest man in the world live?
Bill Gates spends huge amounts of money to fight diseases, poverty, and supports education. But the fortune of the computer genius is only increasing, so the billionaire can afford to live luxuriously. The programmer's house is located on the shores of Lake Washington near Seattle. Bill bought the mansion for $2 million, spending over $63 million and 7 years of his life to renovate it. Now this mansion is worth 147.5 million dollars.
Bill Gates' house is a marvel of automation, where systems are installed that regulate lighting, temperature, music, which respond to microchips. Each room of the billionaire's house, where a person with a microchip enters, adapts to his desires: a guest can watch his favorite movie, listen to his favorite song, or ask for the optimal air temperature for himself.
The richest man in the world and the owner of the fortune loves motor boats, cars, playing bridge and poker. The billionaire has a manic passion for competition, which is reflected in the incredible performance. But this passion is not reflected in Bill Gates' personal life - the computer genius is a happy family man. For more than 40 years, his wife - Melinda French, a former employee of Microsoft, the couple has three children.
Bill Gates fortune
The fortune of the richest man in the world and the owner of the company exceeds 79 billion dollars. Compared to last year, the computer genius has grown another 3.2 billion, and this does not include the fact that the rich man invested $ 1.5 billion in his wife Melinda's charitable foundation. Each year, Gates' fortune increases by 5.3% due to interest paid by banks for keeping money.
The richest person in 2017 unofficially
Bill Gates is in the lead even according to unofficial sources. The computer genius earned the respect of people all over the world for making his fortune not on oil or gas, but using his own brains. A billionaire never succumbs to difficulties, is not afraid to defend the interests of his company, takes risks and mercilessly fights competitors. But the winners are not judged, and the victory is obvious - now Microsoft products are installed on 90% of the world's computers.
Bill Gates deserved his wealth and fortune, he is one of the greatest people of our time. This man created a corporation that in 40 years has greatly changed the face of the world, and what kind of electronic object the computer genius will show us tomorrow - one can only guess. The billionaire claims that over the next ten years, computers of various kinds will change our lives even more. And we believe him, because this computer genius is still the master of world information, and already during his lifetime he went down in history.
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