List of 80 People With as Much Money as 1/2 of Humanity -=

RANK NAME 2014 WEALTH (BILLIONS) COUNTRY SELF-MADE? 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
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