There are 1210 billionaires in the world as of march 2011 The World billionaires list of Forbes.The world billionaries list total net worth is 4.5 trillion$ and the winner is Carlos Slim from Mexico.
Top 10 Billionaires
1.Carlos Slim Helu
Net Worth : 74.0 billion $
Age : 71
Country of Citizenship : Mexico
Sources of wealth : Telmex, América Móvil, Grupo Carso
2.Bill Gates
Net Worth : 56.0 billion $
Age : 55
Country of Citizenship : United States
Sources of wealth : Microsoft
3.Warren Buffet
Net Worth : 50.0 billion $
Age : 80
Country of Citizenship : United States
Sources of wealth : Berkshire Hathaway
4.Bernard Arnault
Net Worth : 41.0 billion $
Age : 62
Country of Citizenship : France
Sources of wealth : LVMH Moët Hennessy, Louis Vuitton
5.Lawrence Ellison
Net Worth : 39.5 billion $
Age : 66
Country of Citizenship : United States
Sources of wealth : Oracle Corporation
6.Lakshmi Mittal
Net Worth : 31.1 billion $
Age : 60
Country of Citizenship : India
Sources of wealth : Arcelor Mittal
7.Amancio Ortega
Net Worth : 31.0 billion $
Age : 74
Country of Citizenship : Spain
Sources of wealth : Inditex Group
8.Eike Batista
Net Worth : 30.0 billion $
Age : 53
Country of Citizenship : Brazil
Sources of wealth : EBX Group
9.Mukesh Ambani
Net Worth : 27.0 billion $
Age : 53
Country of Citizenship : India
Sources of wealth : Reliance Industries
10.Christy Walton
Net Worth : 26.5 billion $
Age : 53
Country of Citizenship : United States
Sources of wealth : Walmart
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[...] do we as a country get out of this fiscal mess? Taxing the rich is flat out stupid. We could take all the money from all the billionaires on earth, and that would only add up to about $4.5 trillion, or 1/20th of the hole the U.S. is [...]
the thing is, who is this money owed to? banks and the rich. sure we dont have to tax the rich, but what do we have to give them trillions of dollars more for? they already have billions! having poor people be taxed to pay the rich is flat out stupid!!!
I wish people saw the problem
Tax is used non transparency, alot of smart people claim taxing makes rich people richer. People who play video games who are also smart make more the more they have, other smart people claim we live in a deterministic world.
Maybe, just maybe, transparency should be a requirement for all zero-sum transfers?
To him that have, more is given. But to him dat dose not have, even wat he has wil be taken 4rum him.
Realy???? Any one of these peaple can end world hunger. That’s 7 billion peaple fed.
I would hate to be one of these peaple when I get to the “pearly gates” and god asked “what did you do with the gifts I gave you? And they answer I used the knowledge you gave me to make a but load of mony for myself. Even the charity these peaple give is for tax shelter purposes
I am not a hater. I make enough to support my family however I hate unnecessary consumtion
How about joining the 1% than hating them….
I did a small research about wealthy people around the world. I found there are 1200+ billionaires in the world and 350 of them are Americans. America is the second largest country in the world by area. America used to had one of the best free market economy before all these bail outs. And it is only 350 billionaires? For me this is not impressive at all. I am not a hater. I love to be rich and also encourage ever one who works hard.
Now most liberal Americans want all these rich people (1%)to go away, even though economy is depend on this 1 %. Here is my proposition for all the haters, How about make rest of the Non US billionaires go away and become wealthy by working hard and join this 1% of US billionaires……
just a thought!
First Alien, your language skills are pathetic and second, your reasoning is tainted by your hate of something sounding ‘liberal’. Working hard will not lead most to become a billionaire and the thought that redistribution is detrimental to the middle class (which is about as high as most ‘hard-workers may hope to acheive) is nonsense. Up to the beginning of the 20th century, there was the rich and the working class – and they worked hard. When taxes were implemented and redistrubution took hold, the middle class was expanded and led to the wealthiest times (by GDP per capita). Life was better until the past 20-30 years when this reversed and the rich got richer, the poor got poorer and the middle class shrunk.
Canada is the second largest country in the world by area. The us isn’t even third! Review your research . Those 1% made their billions on the sweat of the other 99%. Remember that.
Alien, please go back to school. You have been duped by the 1%. There are over 300 million people in the USA, do you expect us all to work hard and become millionaires? That’s not likely. If the middle class is kept strong, then the economy will be strong and the rich will stay rich, that way everyone’s happy. The problem currently is the rich have become too greedy and are willing to let the middle class fail in order to line their pockets.
Alien, either you are a secret millionaire or a not so secret moron. No offense.
I wonder which one of these 1210 billionaires will just give me $ 1,000,000 just for the hell of it? Each one of these billionaires will blow that much money each year and want even miss it. To these people spending a million dollars would be like me throwing away a $100 bill. GIVE IT UP !!! it’s only one million dollars you will blow anyway on something you will not even see most likely. Trust me it want hurt at all. You will spend it anyway.
Cool List!
Where are the Rothchilds, Warburgs, Morgans, and Rockefellers though? How much did they pay you to keep there wealth data off the list?!
These families own 99% of all the $$$ on the earth.
Yes, a good question but 99% is far fetched!
The Rothchild empire is not united and split between the current 200 family menbers. “… Sir Evelyn De Rothschild the British financier has a net worth of $20 billion. Jacob Rothschild another British investment banker has a net worth of $50 billion. As a modern day an empire, the family’s total net worth and assets combined have been pegged in the $300 – $400 billion range….”
How about some of these guys helping the world?
- buy tigers and rhinos more land of their own
- by a Greek island from the bankrupted Greek government
- reduce cash deposits to get the world economy going.
- invest in labour intesive production
- help make the condom and pill free to everyone in the world
If 1000 billionairs gave half their assets to charity for a secure place in heaven?
RRG2012
Huh. Only one woman and most of those people are from the United States. Interesting.
Rich fu**s. What are they going to do with all that money? Can’t take it with them to the grave. In a joking perspective, if they do, there will be sure to be an increase in grave diggers!
These selfish traitors to humanity are the shittiest role models ever to walk the Earth.