And surprisingly, almost half of them are Americans. In a previous list compiled by Oxfam and Forbes, the 80 wealthiest people on earth pretty much own all of the wealth on earth and then some.
We’re conducting research into the current list, which, will be provided by Forbes and Oxfam when completed.
This list is part of a wealth project we’re conducting on the current state of wealth in the world.
This list was used in conjunction with Oxfam and used only with explicit permission and is to be updated with a 2017 list in the month of December. This chart was used to compare and contrast the growth of the world’s richest.
| RANK | NAME | 2014-2015 WEALTH (BILLIONS) | COUNTRY | SELF-MADE? | SECTOR |
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RANK
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NAME
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2014 WEALTH (BILLIONS)
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COUNTRY
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SELF-MADE?
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SECTOR
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bill Gates | $76 | USA | ✓ | Tech |
| 2 | Carlos Slim Helu | $72 | Mexico | ✓ | Telecom |
| 3 | Amancio Ortega | $64 | Spain | ✓ | Retail |
| 4 | Warren Buffett | $58 | USA | ✓ | Finance |
| 5 | Larry Ellison | $48 | USA | ✓ | Tech |
| 6 | Charles Koch | $40 | USA | Diversified | |
| 7 | David Koch | $40 | USA | Diversified | |
| 8 | Sheldon Adelson | $38 | USA | ✓ | Entertainment |
| 9 | Christy Walton | $37 | USA | Retail | |
| 10 | Jim Walton | $35 | USA | Retail | |
| 11 | Liliane Bettencourt | $35 | France | Product | |
| 12 | Stefan Persson | $34 | Sweden | Retail | |
| 13 | Alice Walton | $34 | USA | Retail | |
| 14 | S. Robson Walton | $34 | USA | Retail | |
| 15 | Bernard Arnault | $34 | France | Luxury | |
| 16 | Michael Bloomberg | $33 | USA | ✓ | Finance |
| 17 | Larry Page | $32 | USA | ✓ | Tech |
| 18 | Jeff Bezos | $32 | USA | ✓ | Retail |
| 19 | Sergey Brin | $32 | USA | ✓ | Tech |
| 20 | Li Ka-shing | $31 | Hong Kong | ✓ | Diversified |
| 21 | Mark Zuckerberg | $29 | USA | ✓ | Tech |
| 22 | Michele Ferrero | $27 | Italy | Food | |
| 23 | Aliko Dangote | $25 | Nigeria | ✓ | Commodities |
| 24 | Karl Albrecht | $25 | Germany | ✓ | Retail |
| 25 | Carl Icahn | $25 | USA | ✓ | Finance |
| 26 | George Soros | $23 | USA | ✓ | Finance |
| 27 | David Thomson | $23 | Canada | Media | |
| 28 | Lui Che Woo | $22 | Hong Kong | ✓ | Entertainment |
| 29 | Dieter Schwarz | $21 | Germany | Retail | |
| 30 | Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud | $20 | Saudi Arabia | ✓ | Finance |
| 31 | Forrest Mars Jr. | $20 | USA | Food | |
| 32 | Jacqueline Mars | $20 | USA | Food | |
| 33 | John Mars | $20 | USA | Food | |
| 34 | Jorge Paulo Lemann | $20 | Brazil | ✓ | Drinks |
| 35 | Lee Shau Kee | $20 | Hong Kong | ✓ | Diversified |
| 36 | Steve Ballmer | $19 | USA | ✓ | Tech |
| 37 | Theo Albrecht Jr. | $19 | Germany | Retail | |
| 38 | Leonardo Del Vecchio | $19 | Italy | ✓ | Luxury |
| 39 | Len Blavatnik | $19 | USA | ✓ | Diversified |
| 40 | Alisher Usmanov | $19 | Russia | ✓ | Extractives |
| 41 | Mukesh Ambani | $19 | India | Extractives | |
| 42 | Masayoshi Son | $18 | Japan | ✓ | Telecom |
| 43 | Michael Otto | $18 | Germany | Retail | |
| 44 | Phil Knight | $18 | USA | ✓ | Retail |
| 45 | Tadashi Yanai | $18 | Japan | ✓ | Retail |
| 46 | Gina Rinehart | $18 | Australia | Extractives | |
| 47 | Mikhail Fridman | $18 | Russia | ✓ | Extractives |
| 48 | Michael Dell | $18 | USA | ✓ | Tech |
| 49 | Susanne Klatten | $17 | Germany | Cars | |
| 50 | Abigail Johnson | $17 | USA | Finance | |
| 51 | Viktor Vekselberg | $17 | Russia | ✓ | Metals |
| 52 | Lakshmi Mittal | $17 | India | Metals | |
| 53 | Vladimir Lisin | $17 | Russia | ✓ | Transport |
| 54 | Cheng Yu-tung | $16 | Hong Kong | ✓ | Diversified |
| 55 | Joseph Safra | $16 | Brazil | ✓ | Finance |
| 56 | Paul Allen | $16 | USA | ✓ | Tech |
| 57 | Leonid Mikhelson | $16 | Russia | ✓ | Extractives |
| 58 | Anne Cox Chambers | $16 | USA | Media | |
| 59 | Francois Pinault | $16 | France | ✓ | Retail |
| 60 | Iris Fontbona | $16 | Chile | Extractives | |
| 61 | Azim Premji | $15 | India | Tech | |
| 62 | Mohammed Al Amoudi | $15 | Saudi Arabia | ✓ | Extractives |
| 63 | Gennady Timchenko | $15 | Russia | ✓ | Extractives |
| 64 | Wang Jianlin | $15 | China | ✓ | Real Estate |
| 65 | Charles Ergen | $15 | USA | ✓ | Telecom |
| 66 | Stefan Quandt | $15 | Germany | Cars | |
| 67 | Germán Larrea Mota Velasco | $15 | Mexico | Extractives | |
| 68 | Harold Hamm | $15 | USA | ✓ | Extractives |
| 69 | Ray Dalio | $14 | USA | ✓ | Finance |
| 70 | Donald Bren | $14 | USA | ✓ | Real Estate |
| 71 | Georg Schaeffler | $14 | Germany | Product | |
| 72 | Luis Carlos Sarmiento | $14 | Colombia | ✓ | Finance |
| 73 | Ronald Perelman | $14 | USA | ✓ | Finance |
| 74 | Laurene Powell Jobs | $14 | USA | Entertainment | |
| 75 | Serge Dassault | $14 | France | Aviation | |
| 76 | John Fredriksen | $14 | Cyprus | ✓ | Transport |
| 77 | Vagit Alekperov | $14 | Russia | ✓ | Extractives |
| 78 | John Paulson | $14 | USA | ✓ | Finance |
| 79 | Rupert Murdoch | $14 | USA | ✓ | Media |
| 80 | Ma Huateng | $13 | China | ✓ | Tech |