The leader of the annual Forbes ranking in 23 time was the co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates. This is stated in the Forbes ranking. His fortune Forbes estimated at 81 billion dollars. It's $ 6 billion more than in March when Forbes published a rating of the richest people in the world, headed by Gates. Second place went to the head and founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos. According to the magazine estimated his fortune at 67 billion. In the global ranking of the spring billionaire ranked fifth with a fortune estimated at 45.2 billion dollars. As the newspaper writes, Bezos for the year earned more than any other member of the list. This allowed him to press on the list of the general director of Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett, who held second place after Gates for 15 years. In the new list, Buffett closes the top three, his fortune Forbes estimated at 65.5 billion dollars (March estimate was 60.8 billion US dollars). Fourth place for the first time took the head of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, whose fortune, according to Forbes estimates, reached 55.5 billion dollars (in March - to $ 44.6 billion). Fifth place was taken by the founder of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, his fortune Forbes estimated at 49.3 billion dollars (in March - to $ 43.6 billion). The number of women in the list increased from 46 to 50. The richest of them Forbes named one of the heirs of Wal-Mart empire, Alice Walton, whose state is estimated at US $ 35.4 billion. In the overall ranking of 400 richest Americans, it ranks 13th. The youngest billionaire in the ranking - 26-year-old co-founder of Snapchat (September renamed Snap) Evan Spiegel. His fortune Forbes estimated at $ 2.1 billion, Spiegel takes 335 place. More than 10% of the US rate (42 people) were born outside the US.
The richest of them Forbes named the Google co-founder Sergey Brin, whose parents brought him as a child in the United States from the Soviet Union. In the ranking of Bryn closes the top ten, his fortune is estimated at $ 37.5 billion. US presidential candidate from the Republican Party, Donald Trump dropped to 35 lines and 156 took place. His fortune is estimated at $ 3.7 billion - 800 million less than a year earlier. Earlier, Forbes reported that 18 of the 28 assets Trump for the year dropped significantly. Average condition list of participants has reached $ 6 billion, total - $ 24 trillion, this record levels, says the magazine.
The rating for the first time the Americans were 22 people, including the heiress developer Sol Goldman Jane, whose fortune is estimated at US $ 3 billion. 26 people withdrew from the list for various reasons: the majority have lost his fortune as founder Theranos Elizabeth Holmes, six died, the media mogul Anne Cox Chambers divided their money between three children (they debuted in the rankings).
Original article: It became known, who is leading in the top 400 richest Americans.