Bill Gates remains the richest person in the world, according to the magazine's annual ranking of billionaires Forbes. The Microsoft founder has a net worth (as of Feb. 12) of $75 billion, and despite losing $4,2 billion, he topped the list for the third consecutive year and for the 22th time in the last XNUMX years. In second place is the Spaniard Amancio Ortega, founder of the Zara chain, with 67 billion; in third place, 'the oracle of Omaha', Warren Buffett, with 60,8 billion, and in fourth place Mexican Carlos Slim, who fell from second place due to a collapsed assets of 27,1 billion to 50 billion dollars, due to the collapse of the shares of America Movil, the mobile phone company he founded.
Of all the billionaires, Mark Zuckerberg was the one who had the best year: the founder of Facebook increased his assets by 11,2 billion dollars, moving from sixteenth to sixth position in the ranking with 44,6 billion; Zuckerberg and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, fifth with 45,2 billion, entered the top ten billionaires in the world for the first time. Another novelty is the arrival in the top twenty of the Chinese Wang Jianlin, who bought the AMC cinemas in the United States and who dreams of 'moving' Hollywood to China.
The richest woman is Liliane Bettencourt, 93, main shareholder of L'Oréal, with 36,1 billion dollars. In thirtieth place is the Italian premiere, Maria Franca Fissolo, widow of Michele Ferrero, with 22,1 billion dollars; in 37th place is Leonardo Del Vecchio, owner of Luxottica, with 18,7 billion dollars. The other Italians in the first 400 positions in the standings are the entrepreneur Stefano Pessina in 62nd place, with 13,4 billion; Massimiliana Landini Aleotti, leader of the Menarini group, with 10,1 billion in 101st place; Silvio Berlusconi with 6,2 billion in position 188, Giorgio Armani with 6,1 billion in 196th place; then Augusto and Giorgio Perfetti, with 5,7 billion, in 219th place.
The United States has 540 billionaires, followed by mainland China with 251 (Hong Kong then has 69), Germany with 120 and Russia with 77; there are 43 Italian billionaires; in all, there are 1.810 billionaires in the world – 16 fewer than last year – including 190 women.
