Billionaire
Statistics
The table below lists numerous statistics relating to billionaires, including the total number of known billionaires and the net worth of the world's wealthiest individual for each year since 2008.

Billionaire

Section Title: Statistics
Table Section Text: The table below lists numerous statistics relating to billionaires, including the total number of known billionaires and the net worth of the world's wealthiest individual for each year since 2008.

Year	Total number of billionaires	Combined wealth of known billionaires	Number of U.S. billionaires	Number of Chinese billionaires	Number of Russian billionaires	Number of Indian billionaires	World's wealthiest individual	Wealthiest individual's net worth

2018	2,754	$9.2 trillion	680	338	–	117	Jeff Bezos	$133 billion

2017	2,043	$7.71 trillion	565	319	–	101	Jeff Bezos	$99.6 billion

2016	1,810	$6.48 trillion	540	251	75	90	Bill Gates	$75 billion

2015	1,826	$7.05 trillion	536	213	88	88	Bill Gates	$79.2 billion

2014	1,645	$6.4 trillion	492	152	111	56	Bill Gates	$78 billion

2013	1,426	$5.4 trillion	442	122	110	–	Carlos Slim	$73 billion

2012	1,226	$4.6 trillion	425	95	96	–	Carlos Slim	$73 billion

2011	1,210	$4.5 trillion	413	115	101	–	Carlos Slim	$74 billion

2010	1,011	$3.6 trillion	404 (est.)	89	62	–	Carlos Slim	$53.5 billion

2009	793	$2.4 trillion	359	28	32	–	Bill Gates	$40 billion

2008	1,125	$4.4 trillion	470 (est.)	–	87	–	Warren Buffett	$62 billion

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There were 1,826 billionaires in 2015.

final_sentence: There were 1,826 billionaires in 2015.