THE WORLD'S BILLIONAIRES 2017

The World's Billionaires

              

Forbes, one of the known and top rated website, has given a list of worlds billionaires for 2017, and for the fourth time Bill Gates is again ranked on the top of the list. Of course Bill Gates needs no introduction. From his renowned source Microsoft, he is on the top of the list again. 

On the other hand there are some surprising changes in the billionaires list and their records. Mark Zuckerberg has beaten Carlos Slim (from Mexico) and attained 5^th position in top five of the billionaires list. After 12 years Carlos Slim is not in the top five ranking as his wealth and assets declined in 2017.

However the overall listing of billionaires is compiled together in a spreadsheet for your ease to read and analysis. 

No.	Name	Net worth (USD)	Nationality	Source of Wealth
1	Bill Gates	$86.0 billion	United States	Microsoft
2	Warren Buffett	$75.6 billion	United States	Berkshire Hathaway
3	Jeff Bezos	$72.8 billion	United States	Amazon.com
4	Amancio Ortega	$71.3 billion	Spain	Inditex, Zara
5	Mark Zuckerberg	$56.0 billion	United States	Facebook
6	Carlos Slim	$54.5 billion	Mexico	América Móvil, Grupo Carso
7	Larry Ellison	$52.2 billion	United States	Oracle Corporation
8	Charles Koch	$48.3 billion	United States	Koch Industries
8	David Koch	$48.3 billion	United States	Koch Industries
10	Michael Bloomberg	$47.5 billion	United States	Bloomberg L.P.

GLOBAL RESEARCH FOR WORLD BILLIONAIRES:

Well the global research for billionaires says that number of billionaires has increased from 1,810 to 2,043, which means there is 13% raise in total billionaires of the world. In this figure The United States of America is still a leader with a record of 565 members followed by China with 319 (Hong Kong with 67  Macau with 1 is excluded). Germany has reached to 114 billionaires and for the first time in history of world India has reached up to 100 billionaires in the world.

DATA COLLECTION:

The above listing of world wealthiest people are gathered by Forbes, whose research methodology is based on about 50 members from different countries. These people were engaged in different types of activities. Some people were engaged directly in monitoring their financial activities, some used the private companies to do research and so on.

CONCLUSION:

The overall research has declared a good news that the total wealth of from World Billionaires Club has touched highest upper cap so far which is approximately $7.67 trillion in 2017. It was $6.5 trillion in 2016 and $7.1 trillion in 2015. These billionaires not only contribute their respective countries in terms of tax but they spend a lot in Charity and welfare work.

                           

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