The World's Billionaires | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-13

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00:02:20 1 Methodology
00:04:19 2 Annual rankings
00:04:43 2.1 Legend
00:04:51 2.2 2019
00:05:47 2.3 2018
00:06:56 2.4 2017
00:08:37 2.5 2016
00:09:58 2.6 2015
00:12:48 2.7 2014
00:15:12 2.8 2013
00:17:43 2.9 2012
00:20:21 2.10 2011
00:23:03 2.11 2010
00:26:00 2.12 2009
00:26:24 2.13 2008
00:26:45 2.14 2007
00:27:23 2.15 2006
00:27:48 2.16 2005
00:28:09 2.17 2004
00:28:31 2.18 2003
00:28:52 2.19 2002
00:29:16 2.20 2001
00:29:46 2.21 2000
00:30:24 3 Statistics



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The World's Billionaires is an annual ranking by documented net worth of the world's wealthiest billionaires compiled and published in March annually by the American business magazine Forbes. The list was first published in March 1987. The total net worth of each individual on the list is estimated and is cited in United States dollars, based on their documented assets and accounting for debt. Royalty and dictators whose wealth comes from their positions are excluded from these lists. This ranking is an index of the wealthiest documented individuals, excluding and ranking against those with wealth that is not able to be completely ascertained.In 2018, there was a record of 2,208 people on the list, that included 259 newcomers mostly from China and the U.S.; there were 63 people under 40 and it had a record number of 256 women. The average net worth of the list came in at US$4.1 billion, up US$350 million from 2017. Added together, the total net worth for 2018's billionaires was US$9.1 trillion, up from US$7.67 trillion in 2017. As of 2018, Microsoft founder Bill Gates had topped the list 18 of the past 24 years, while Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is ranked at the top for the first time and he became the first centibillionaire included in the ranking. Additionally, Mark Zuckerberg is currently the only person in the top 10 billionaires list who is under the age of 50, and the only one in the top 20 billionaires list who is under the age of 40.In 2017, 500 of the richest people in the world became richer by $1 trillion, according to a report by Bloomberg News. According to a 2017 Oxfam report, the top eight billionaires own as much combined wealth as "the poorest half of the human race".