Forbes magazine yesterday, released the 2011 World’s Richest People list with Nigeria’s own industrialist, Aliko Dangote rated as the 51st Richest man in the world, with a networth of $13.8bn and richer than Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg who made the list for the first time with a networth of $13.5bn at the 52nd position.
Despite the recent political crisis in Egypt, the Arab country led other African countries with 8 billionaires on the list , followed by South Africa with 4 billionaires, while Nigeria came 3rd with 2 billionaires. Chief Mike Adenuga joined Dangote on the Forbes’ list rated 597 in the world, and worth $2bn. However, Dangote, according to Forbes is the richest African .
Globally, Mexico’s Carlos Slim Helú is holding on to the title of world’s richest man – for the 2nd year running, worth $74bn while Bill Gates is 2nd and worth $58bn.
See the top 10 richest people, below.
Name Networth
1. Carlos Slim Helú & Family $71bn
2. Bill Gates $56bn
3. Warren Buffet $50bn
4.Bernard Arnault $41bn
5.Larry Ellison(Oracle) $39.5bn
6.Lakshmi Mittal $31.1bn
7.Amancio Ortega $31bn
8.Eike Batista $30 bn
9. Mukesh Ambani $27 bn
10.Christy Walton & family $26.5 bn
Forbes’ list also revealed that Facebook, the social networking giant, with over 500million members, produced 6 billionaires that included Co-founders, Dustin Moskovitz and Eduardo Saverin, and Facebook’s first president, Sean Parker.
Slim Helú, Gates, Dangote and Zuckerberg
With this year’s list, Forbes marked 25years of publishing the World’s Rich list breaking two records: the highest number of billionaires (1,210) and a combined wealth of $4.5 trillion(the highest ever.)
Also, China and Russia joined the United States as countries with over a 100 billionaires. China now has 115 and Russia 101.
Posted: at 10-03-2011 06:44 AM (14 years ago) | Upcoming
Dan_Fulani at 10-03-2011 07:03 AM (14 years ago) (m)
An impressive list. That is alot of wealth concentrated in a few families. I hope these super rich people remember to help the less fortunate people in many regions of the world. Lots of people are hungry, homeless, and desperastely need help to survive.
dan fulani
Posted: at 10-03-2011 07:03 AM (14 years ago) | Gistmaniac
AlphaOscar at 10-03-2011 12:10 PM (14 years ago) (m)
Quote from: Dan_Fulani on 10-03-2011 07:03 AM
An impressive list. That is alot of wealth concentrated in a few families. I hope these super rich people remember to help the less fortunate people in many regions of the world. Lots of people are hungry, homeless, and desperastely need help to survive.
dan fulani
Na today?, most of them are wicked and possessed that they will even want to take from those who are in need.
Posted: at 10-03-2011 12:10 PM (14 years ago) | Upcoming
Bill Gates and co ain't gat maney, just a chicken- change, when u tolk of maney think of The super rich NEGLITO. Founder, Neglito global group. net worth in euro 1.5 TRILLION. Corporate HQ. Neglito Towers. Orlu. Rep. of Biafra.
Posted: at 10-03-2011 04:34 PM (14 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Doing something evil is a necessary condition to get there but not sufficient. Dangote got his wealth as a result of monopoly. He's virtually the only supplier of cement in Nigeria. So i'm not surprised. I don't think he pays tax. He should be paying personal income tax, corporate tax, and investment stuffs. The govt should use him as a major source of revenue.
Posted: at 14-03-2011 02:22 AM (14 years ago) | Newbie
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