Bill Gates World's Richest Person In 2015

According to 29th annual list of world richest people, containing 1,826 billionaires with a total wealth of $7.05 trillion. In the ranking 2015 there are 290 new billionaires out of which 71 belong to china and 46 out of these are under the age of 40.

Bill Gates once again remained the top billionaire with $79.2 billion in 2015.According to Forbes  Bill Gates holds this title 16 times in the past 21 years. Charles Slim Helu from Mexico is at the second and Warren Buffett is at number 3.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has got a new ranking and moved up 5 places and stands at number 16.

The youngest billionaire on earth is the 24 year old Evan Spigal, the co-founder of Snapchat. 

 As the fast growing technology produces new billionaires and this year the silicon valley produced 23 new billionaires including Ubee founders Travis Kalanick and Garret Camp and their very first employee Ryan Graves.

Forbes Ranking of Richest People 2015

1. Bill Gates $79.2bn (Microsoft)

2. Carlos Slim Helu $77.1bn (Phones & construction in Mexico)

3. Warren Buffett $72.7bn (Global investor)

4. Amancio Ortega $64.5bn (Zara & other fashion chains)

5. Larry Ellison $54.3bn (Oracle data storage technology)

6. Charles Koch $42.9bn (Industrialist)

7. David Koch $42.9bn (Industrialist)

8. Christy Walton $41.7bn (Walmart retail giant)

9. Jim Walton $40.6bn (Walmart retail giant)

10. Liliane Bettencourt $40.1bn (L’Oreal cosmetics firm)

src:forbes