In 2005, Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, once again topped the list of billionaires in Fortune magazine, and Gates became the richest man in the world for 1 1 year in a row.
Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft Corporation (MSFT), was elected as the richest man in the world with a personal asset of $46.5 billion, slightly lower than $46.6 billion in the same period last year.
Warren Buffett, a talented investor, ranked second with assets of $44 billion. In 2004, his personal assets were $42.9 billion.
Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal owns Mittal Steel, and in 2005, his personal assets were $25 billion, ranking third.
Carlos Slim Elu, a Mexican telecom giant, said this month that Verizon and Quest's bid for MCI was too low. His personal wealth is $23.8 billion, ranking fourth. In 2004, his personal wealth only ranked 17; Prince Walid bin Talal Al Saud of Saudi Arabia ranked fifth; Ingvar Kamprad, the Swedish founder of IKEA, rose to sixth place from 13 last year.
The number of billionaires rose from a record 587 last year to 69 1 person, and their total wealth climbed by $300 billion to $2.2 trillion.
The richest people who fell out of the top 10 included paul allen, one of the founders of Microsoft, and karl albrecht, a German supermarket chain operator. Lawrence Ellison of Oracle Bone Inscriptions Company and S robson walton of Wal-Mart returned to 10.
The other four Walton family members ranked 1 1 to 13 respectively, among which alice walton and Helen Walton won the title of the richest woman again with a wealth of/kloc-0.8 billion US dollars. The total wealth of the five family members of Wal-Mart founder sam walton exceeds $90 billion.
Russian billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky was sentenced to 18 months in prison, and his wealth shrank to1280 million dollars, making him the biggest loser on the list.
The biggest winners are Google founders sergey brin and Larry Page. Both of them have a wealth of about $654.38 billion, and they were selected for the first time in the billionaires list last year.
Among the 65,438+0,365,438+0 billionaires added in 2004, among the 68 female billionaires (compared with 53 last year), Martha Stewart's wealth climbed to $65,438+0 billion. Although Martha Stewart admitted that she lied in the process of selling stocks and served five months in prison, her wealth is still growing.
According to Fortune magazine, the above wealth ranking calculates the wealth value of February 1 1 day and the market value of publicly listed stocks on that day.