Amazon owner Jeff Bezos took first place in the annual ranking of the richest people in the world, which is the magazine Forbes. The publication promulgated it on Tuesday, March 6. Now the state of Bezos is estimated at 112 billion dollars, a year earlier it was 72.8 billion dollars. Shares of his company for the past year rose in price by 59 percent.

In second place in the rating - the founder of Microsoft Bill Gates, his magazine estimated the state of $ 90 billion.

The third line is occupied by the head of Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett (84 billion dollars).

The fourth in the rating is the president of the group of companies Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy Bernard Arnault (72 billion dollars), the fifth - the creator of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg (71 billion dollars).

In total, following the results of 2017, the total state of the 20 richest people is 1.2 trillion dollars - this is 13 percent of the total state of 2208 billionaires of the world, writes Forbes.

Source: DW.