Forbes has once again announced its annual list of the worlds billionaires for 2009.
The main overall change to the list is the drop in overall Net Worth of the majority of billionaires due to the current economic conditions and as a result there are less billionaires in 2009 than there were 2008.
Another interesting change is that Bill Gates (co-founder of Microsoft) is once again the worlds richest person with a net worth of $40 Billion. Warren Buffet (Berkshire Hathaway CEO) has been pushed down to second place with his net worth currently $37 Billion.
One of the 44 billionaires who were able to increase their net worth was Oprah Winfrey who is now worth $ 2.7 billion and ranked 234 on list. A interesting name appearing on the 2009 list is the Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera who has a net worth of $1 billion.
|
Rank
|
Name
|
Citizenship
|
Age
|
Net Worth ($bil)
|
Residence
|
|
1
|
William Gates III
|
United States
|
53
|
40
|
United States
|
|
2
|
Warren Buffett
|
United States
|
78
|
37
|
United States
|
|
3
|
Carlos Slim Helu & family
|
Mexico
|
69
|
35
|
Mexico
|
|
4
|
Lawrence Ellison
|
United States
|
64
|
22.5
|
United States
|
|
5
|
Ingvar Kamprad & family
|
Sweden
|
83
|
22
|
Switzerland
|
|
6
|
Karl Albrecht
|
Germany
|
89
|
21.5
|
Germany
|
|
7
|
Mukesh Ambani
|
India
|
51
|
19.5
|
India
|
|
8
|
Lakshmi Mittal
|
India
|
58
|
19.3
|
United Kingdom
|
|
9
|
Theo Albrecht
|
Germany
|
87
|
18.8
|
Germany
|
|
10
|
Amancio Ortega
|
Spain
|
73
|
18.3
|
Spain
|
|
11
|
Jim Walton
|
United States
|
61
|
17.8
|
United States
|
|
12
|
Alice Walton
|
United States
|
59
|
17.6
|
United States
|
|
12
|
Christy Walton & family
|
United States
|
54
|
17.6
|
United States
|
|
12
|
S Robson Walton
|
United States
|
65
|
17.6
|
United States
|
|
15
|
Bernard Arnault
|
France
|
60
|
16.5
|
France
|
|
16
|
Li Ka-shing
|
Hong Kong
|
80
|
16.2
|
Hong Kong
|
|
17
|
Michael Bloomberg
|
United States
|
67
|
16
|
United States
|
|
18
|
Stefan Persson
|
Sweden
|
61
|
14.5
|
Sweden
|
|
19
|
Charles Koch
|
United States
|
73
|
14
|
United States
|
|
19
|
David Koch
|
United States
|
68
|
14
|
United States
|
|
21
|
Liliane Bettencourt
|
France
|
86
|
13.4
|
France
|
|
22
|
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud
|
Saudi Arabia
|
54
|
13.3
|
Saudi Arabia
|
|
23
|
Michael Otto & family
|
Germany
|
65
|
13.2
|
Germany
|
|
24
|
David Thomson & family
|
Canada
|
51
|
13
|
Canada
|
|
25
|
Michael Dell
|
United States
|
44
|
12.3
|
United States
|
|
26
|
Donald Bren
|
United States
|
76
|
12
|
United States
|
|
26
|
Sergey Brin
|
United States
|
35
|
12
|
United States
|
|
26
|
Larry Page
|
United States
|
36
|
12
|
United States
|
|
29
|
Steven Ballmer
|
United States
|
53
|
11
|
United States
|
|
29
|
Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family
|
United Kingdom
|
57
|
11
|
United Kingdom
|
|
29
|
George Soros
|
United States
|
78
|
11
|
United States
|
|
32
|
Paul Allen
|
United States
|
56
|
10.5
|
United States
|
|
32
|
Kwok family
|
Hong Kong
|
NA
|
10.5
|
Hong Kong
|
|
34
|
Anil Ambani
|
India
|
49
|
10.1
|
India
|
|
35
|
Abigail Johnson
|
United States
|
47
|
10
|
United States
|
|
35
|
Susanne Klatten
|
Germany
|
46
|
10
|
Germany
|
|
35
|
Ronald Perelman
|
United States
|
66
|
10
|
United States
|
|
35
|
Hans Rausing
|
Sweden
|
83
|
10
|
United Kingdom
|
|
39
|
Birgit Rausing & family
|
Sweden
|
85
|
9.9
|
Switzerland
|
|
40
|
Michele Ferrero & family
|
Italy
|
82
|
9.5
|
Monaco
|
|
40
|
Mikhail Prokhorov
|
Russia
|
43
|
9.5
|
Russia
|
|
40
|
Jack Taylor & family
|
United States
|
86
|
9.5
|
United States
|
http://caveviews.blogs.com/cave_news/2009/03/mexican-drug-lord-on-forbes-billionaire-list.html
http://blog.sharenet.co.za/index.php/der/2009/03/12/forbes_billionaires_list_2009
http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/11/worlds-richest-people-billionaires-2009-billionaires_land.html
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