विश्व के 100 सर्वाधिक धनी व्यक्तियों की सूची

यह विश्व के 100 सर्वाधिक धनी व्यक्तियों की सूची  दिनांक ११ फरवरी २००८ को, प्रत्येक व्यक्ति की कुल संपत्ति के मूल्य पर आधारित है। The total net worth is an estimate measured in United States dollars, based on the closing stock prices of the stock exchanges on which each person's company is listed, and exchange rates on February 11, 2008. Stock prices are defined as shares of ownership in a corporation, and exchange rates are defined as how much one currency is worth in terms of another. This list only represents each person's valuation on a single day due to daily fluctuations among exchange rates and stock valuations. The list does not include heads of state whose wealth is tied to their position (see list of heads of government and state by net worth).

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 Top billionaires 
The following list is the ranking of the world's richest billionaires on February 11 2008, and does not reflect changes since that date. The top three countries with the most billionaires are: United States with over 400, Russia with 87, and India and Germany with 56 each.

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 No. Name Net worth (USD)  Age Citizenship Residence Sources of wealth Ref.$112.0 billion 78Berkshire Hathaway$90.0 billion 68Telmex, América Móvil$58.0 billion 52Microsoft$45.0 बिलियन 58आर्सेलर मित्तल$43.0 बिलियन 51रिलायंस इंडस्ट्रीज़$42.0 billion 49Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group$31.1 billion 42SCM HoldingsKorrespondent Names Akhmetov Ukraine’s Richest Man  UNIANКорреспондент обнародовал рейтинг самых богатых украинцев. Ахметов – богатейший человек СНГ и Европы  Корреспондент.net and family$31.0 billion 82IKEA$30.0 billion 77DLF Group$28.0 billion 40Rusal$27.0 billion 88ALDI$26.5 billion 79Cheung Kong Holdings, Hutchison Whampoa$26.0 billion 74Las Vegas Sands$25.5 billion 59LVMH Moët Hennessy • Louis Vuitton$25.0 billion 63Oracle Corporation$23.5 billion 41Millhouse Capital$23.0 billion 85ALDI, Trader Joe's$22.9 billion 85L'Oréal$21.2 billion 42Severstal$21.0 billion 51Kingdom Holding Company, Citigroup$20.8 billion 43Alfa Group$20.3 billion 51Novolipetsk Steel$20.2 billion 72Inditex Group$20.0 billion 62Brunei Shell Petroleum, Thomas Kwok, and Walter Kwok$19.9 billion 56, 57, and 58Sun Hung Kai$19.5 billion 42Interros$19.3 billion 47Interros$19.2 billion 53Wal-Mart $19.2 billion 60Wal-Mart$19.2 billion 64Wal-Mart$19.0 billion 80Henderson Land Development$19.0 billion 58Wal-Mart and family $18.9 billion 50The Thomson Corporation$18.7 billion 34Google $18.6 billion 35Google and family$18.2 billion 64Otto GmbH$17.7 billion 60Hennes & Mauritz$17.5 billion 42Gazprom, Sberbank$17.0 billion 72Koch Industries$17.0 billion 67Koch Industries and family$16.9 billion 71PPR$16.4 billion 43Dell$16.0 billion 55Microsoft$16.0 billion 90Tracinda Corporation$15.0 billion 52Microsoft$15.0 billion 46Fidelity Investments and Ravi Ruia$15.0 billion Essar and family$14.0 billion 64M. A. Kharafi & Sons and family$14.0 billion 56Grosvenor Group$14.0 billion 72American Car and Foundry Company$14.0 billion 76Mars, Incorporated$14.0 billion 68Mars, Incorporated$14.0 billion 71Mars, Incorporated and family$14.0 billion 84Tetra Laval and family$14.0 billion 85Enterprise Rent-A-Car$13.9 billion 46TNK-BP$13.2 billion 45BMW$13.0 billion 57LUKoil$13.0 billion 75Irvine Company and Gerard Wertheimer$12.9 billion 59 and 58Chanel$12.8 billion 41Uralkali$12.7 billion 62Wipro Technologies$12.7 billion 53Orascom Telecom Holding$12.6 billion 88Cox Enterprises$11.9 billion 44Uralskaya Gorno-Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya and family$11.8 billion 50Bharti Airtel$11.5 billion 49Evraz Group$11.5 billion 66Bloomberg L.P.$11.2 billion 50Renova Group and family$11.0 billion 81Ferrero SpA$11.0 billion 65BOK Financial Corporation and family$11.0 billion 61EFG Bank European Financial Group$11.0 billion 46Orascom Construction Industries (OCI)$10.8 billion 45Alfa Group$10.4 billion 70Nike$10.4 billion 59Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works$10.3 billion 42Serono$10.2 billion 40Aditya Birla Group$10.0 billion 72Luxottica and family$10.0 billion 79Votorantim Group and family$10.0 billion Antofagasta PLC, Quiñenco$10.0 billion 77Fidelity Investments$10.0 billion 82Tetra Laval$10.0 billion 59Sistema$10.0 billion 47Mechel and family$9.9 billion 82Dassault Group$9.8 billion 75Grupo Bal$9.6 billion 68Unitech Group$9.5 billion 55Dish Network Corporation$9.5 billion 93Metromedia$9.5 billion 65Revlon  and family$9.4 billion 71Fininvest$9.3 billion 45Adani Group$9.3 billion 43PPF Group$9.3 billion 54Metalloinvest$9.2 billion 73Phoenix Pharmahandel$9.2 billion 78Allianz$9.2 billion 61PT Lapindo Brantas$9.1 billion 78Orascom Telecom Holding$9.1 billion 62Corral Petroleum Holdings$9.0 billion 84Perlis Plantations Bhd$9.0 billion 77Soros Fund Management

 Notable-mentions (Claims of being less-known billionaires) 
Notable-mentions lists those people who have been claimed by credible sources to possess fortunes to the tunes of multi-millions and billions but claims which have not directly been endorsed by Forbes. These claims are well-referenced and credible. This list is necessary because it is appropriate neither for Wikipedia nor for others to depend on a single-source (Forbes) to estimate the richest people in the world. 

 Government figures 
 Vladimir Putin 

Former State Duma Speaker Ivan Rybkin claimed that President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, "is the biggest oligarch in Russia" and that Russian businessmen Gennady Timchenko, Mikhail Kovalchuk, Yuriy Kovalchuk, and Roman Abramovich are "looking after Putin's business interests and swallowing up a vast share of the nation's financial flows". Such claims have been supported later by Russian political insider Stanislav Belkovsky

. Economist Anders Åslund, author of "Russia's Capitalist Revolution"Anders Åslund Russia's Capitalist Revolution: Why Market Reform Succeeded and Democracy Failed, 2007, ISBN 978-0-88132-409-9, PDF , described this story in his Moscow Times article:
"Everybody around Putin is completely corrupt, but many think that the president himself is honest. In February 2004, presidential candidate Ivan Rybkin named three men as Putin's bagmen, including Gennady Timchenko, the co-founder of the Gunvor oil-trading company. After Rybkin made this statement, he vanished from the political stage. In September, the Polish magazine Wprost wrote that Timchenko, a former KGB officer and member of Putin's dacha cooperative in St. Petersburg, has a net worth of $20 billion. Officially, Timchenko sells the oil of four Russian oil companies, but how are the prices determined to generate such profits?

In a sensational interview in Germany's Die Welt on Nov. 12, Stanislav Belkovsky, the well-connected insider who initiated the Kremlin campaign against Yukos in 2003, made specific claims about Putin's wealth. He alleged that Putin owned 37 percent of Surgutneftegaz (worth $18 billion), 4.5 percent of Gazprom ($13 billion) and half of Timchenko's company, Gunvor (possibly $10 billion). If this information is true, Putin's total personal fortune would amount to no less than $41 billion, placing him among the 10 richest in the world."

When asked at a press conference on February 14, 2008 if these allegations were true, Putin was quoted as saying the following in response: "This is true. I am the richest person not only in Europe, but also in the world. I collect emotions. And I am rich in that respect that the people of Russia have twice entrusted me with leadership of such a great country as Russia. I consider this to be my biggest fortune. As for the rumors concerning my financial wealth, I have seen some pieces of paper regarding this. This is plain chatter.""Что касается различных слухов по поводу денежного состояния, я смотрел некоторые бумажки на этот счёт: просто болтовня, которую нечего обсуждать, просто чушь. Все выковыряли из носа и размазали по своим бумажкам. Вот так я к этому и отношусь." The President's annual press conference for the Russian and foreign media , February 14, 2008, Kremlin.ru

 References 
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 External links 
 The 400 Richest Americans (2007)
 Sunday Times Rich List 2007 - 1000 Britain's richest 1,000
 India's 40 Richest (2007)
 Greater China's 40 Richest (2007)
 The 100 Richest Russians (2004)

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