{"id":6482,"date":"2016-03-02T12:38:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T12:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=6482"},"modified":"2016-03-02T12:38:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T12:38:40","slug":"bill-gates-richest-man-in-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/bill-gates-richest-man-in-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates richest man in world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Bill-Gates.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3955 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Bill-Gates.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Gates\" width=\"286\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a>Microsoft&#8217;s co-founder Bill Gates continued his reign as the world&#8217;s richest person with a net worth of $75 billion, according to Forbes&#8217; annual ranking of billionaires, with Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani leading the pack of 84 Indian billionaires in 2016.<br \/>\nForbes&#8217; 2016 list of the World&#8217;s Billionaires includes 1,810 billionaires, down from a record 1,826 a year ago.<br \/>\nTheir aggregate net worth is $6.5 billion, $570 million less than last year.<br \/>\nGates remains the richest person in the world with a net worth of $75 billion, despite being $4.2 billion poorer than a year ago. He has been number one for 3 years in a row and topped the list 17 out of 22 years.<br \/>\nForbes said Ambani, 58, has retained his position as India&#8217;s richest person despite shares of his oil and gas giant Reliance Industries taking a hit due to lower oil prices.<br \/>\nHe is ranked 36th on the list with a net worth of $20.6 billion, the magazine said, adding that &#8220;the $62.2 billion (revenues) firm is likely to resume buying crude oil from Iran after the lifting of sanctions.&#8221;<br \/>\nOccupying the second spot on the list is Spanish billionaire Amancio Ortega, founder of closing retail giant Zara and the richest man in Europe.<br \/>\nOn the third spot is billionaire philanthropist and Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helu (4) and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (5).<br \/>\nAmbani leads a pack of 84 billionaires from India, with pharma magnate Dilip Shanghvi (rank 44 and $16.7 billion networth), Wipro Chairman Azim Premji (55 with $15 billion networth) and HCL co-founder Shiv Nadar (88 and $11.1 billion networth) coming in among the top 100 billionaires.<br \/>\nOther prominent Indian billionaires include ArcelorMittal Chairman Lakshmi Mittal (135), Bharti Airtel&#8217;s Sunil Mittal (219), Ports and power magnate Gautam Adani (453), matriarch Savitri Jindal (453), Bajaj Group&#8217;s Rahul Bajaj (722), Infosys chairman emeritus N R Narayana Murthy (959) and Mahindra Group&#8217;s Chief Anand Mahindra (1577).<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/bill-gates-richest-man-in-world\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s co-founder Bill Gates continued his reign as the world&#8217;s richest person with a net worth of $75 billion, according to Forbes&#8217; annual ranking of billionaires, with Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani leading the pack of 84 Indian billionaires in 2016. 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