Richest People in 2017 – Hyper Countries

This article presents the list of the 50 richest people in the world, listed in descending order, according to information from Forbes magazine.

The list of the 50 richest people in the world in 2017, prepared by Forbes magazine and presented in March 2017, is led by Bill Gates , founder of Microsoft , for the fourth year in a row, with a net worth that amounts to 86 billion dollars. Warren Buffett, 86 years old, is the second richest man in the world and Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, closes the podium. In the list, the first woman appears in 14th place, with a fortune of 39.5 billion dollars. In the top 50 of the richest in 2016 there is no Portuguese, with the most represented country being the United States of America.

#	Name	Parents	Net worth	revenue source
1	bill Gates	USA	86 billion dollars	Microsoft
2	Warren Buffett	USA	75.6 billion dollars	Berkshire Hathaway
3	Jeff Bezos	USA	72.8 billion dollars	Amazon.com
4	Amancio Ortega	Spain	71.3 billion dollars	Zara
5	Mark Zuckerberg	USA	56 billion dollars	Facebook
6	Carlos Slim Helu	Mexico	54.5 billion dollars	Telecommunications
7	Larry Ellison	USA	52.2 billion dollars	software
8	Charles Koch	USA	48.3 billion dollars	diversified
9	David Koch	USA	48.3 billion dollars	diversified
10	Michael Bloomberg	USA	47.5 billion dollars	Bloomberg LP
11	Bernard Arnault	France	41.5 billion dollars	LVMH
12	Larry Page	USA	40.7 billion dollars	Google
13	Sergey Brin	USA	39.8 billion dollars	Google
14	Liliane Bettencourt	France	39.5 billion dollars	L’Oréal
15	S. Robson Walton	USA	34.1 billion dollars	Wal-Mart
16	Jim Walton	USA	34 billion dollars	Wal-Mart
17	Alice Walton	USA	33.8 billion dollars	Wal-Mart
18	Wang Jianlin	China	31.3 billion dollars	real estate
19	Li Ka-shing	Hong Kong	31.2 billion dollars	diversified
20	Sheldon Adelson	USA	30.4 billion dollars	casinos
21	Steve Ballmer	USA	30 billion dollars	Microsoft
22	Jorge Paulo Lemann	Brazil	29.2 billion dollars	Brewery
23	Jack Ma	China	28.3 billion dollars	e-commerce
24	Beate Heister & Karl Albrecht Jr.	Germany	27.2 billion dollars	supermarkets
25	David Thomson	Canada	27.2 billion dollars	Average
26	Jacqueline Mars	USA	27 billion dollars	Candy
27	John Mars	USA	27 billion dollars	Candy
28	Phil Knight	USA	26.2 billion dollars	Nike
29	Maria Franca Fissolo	Italy	25.2 billion dollars	chocolates
30	George Soros	USA	25.2 billion dollars	venture funds
31	Ma Huateng	China	24.9 billion dollars	Digital Media
32	Lee Shau Kee	Hong Kong	24.4 billion dollars	real estate
33	Mukesh Ambani	India	23.2 billion dollars	Oil and Gas
34	Masayoshi Son	Japan	21.2 billion dollars	Telecommunications
35	Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen	Denmark	21.1 billion dollars	Lego
36	Georg Schaeffler	Germany	20.7 billion dollars	Automobiles
37	Joseph Safra	Brazil	20.5 billion dollars	banking
38	Michael Dell	USA	20.4 billion dollars	Dell computers
39	Susanne Klatten	Germany	20.4 billion dollars	BMW, Pharmaceuticals
40	Len Blavatnik	USA	20 billion dollars	Diversified
41	Laurene Powell Jobs	USA	20 billion dollars	Apple, Disney
42	Paul Allen	USA	19.9 billion dollars	Microsoft , Investments
43	Stefan Persson	Sweden	19.6 billion dollars	H&M
44	Theo Albrecht, Jr.	Germany	18.8 billion dollars	Aldi, Trader Joe’s
45	Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud	Saudi Arabia	18.7 billion dollars	investments
46	Leonid Mikhelson	Russia	18.4 billion dollars	Gas, Chemicals
47	Charles Ergen	USA	18.3 billion dollars	satellite TV
48	Stefan Quandt	Germany	18.3 billion dollars	BMW
49	James Simons	USA	18 billion dollars	venture funds
50	Leonardo Del Vecchio	Italy	17.9 billion dollars	Glasses

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