Monday, August 04, 2008

World's Billionaires for 2008

Bill Gates' reign the title as the world's richest person for 13th consecutive year, now is in the 3rd rank in world billionaires. According to Forbes

Independent survey company, recent survey for The World's Billionaires for 2008 that was held on 3 May 2008 yield the following result.

Below is the list of the first 25 billionaires around the world.

Rank

Name

Citizenship

Age

Net Worth (USD $billion)

Residence

1

Warren Buffett

United States

77

62.0

United States

2

Carlos Slim Helu & family

Mexico

68

60.0

Mexico

3

William Gates III

United States

52

58.0

United States

4

Lakshmi Mittal

India

57

45.0

United Kingdom

5

Mukesh Ambani

India

50

43.0

India

6

Anil Ambani

India

48

42.0

India

7

Ingvar Kamprad & family

Sweden

81

31.0

Switzerland

8

KP Singh

India

76

30.0

India

9

Oleg Deripaska

Russia

40

28.0

Russia

10

Karl Albrecht

Germany

88

27.0

Germany

11

Li Ka-shing

Hong Kong

79

26.5

Hong Kong

12

Sheldon Adelson

United States

74

26.0

United States

13

Bernard Arnault

France

59

25.5

France

14

Lawrence Ellison

United States

63

25.0

United States

15

Roman Abramovich

Russia

41

23.5

Russia

16

Theo Albrecht

Germany

85

23.0

Germany

17

Liliane Bettencourt

France

85

22.9

France

18

Alexei Mordashov

Russia

42

21.2

Russia

19

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud

Saudi Arabia

51

21.0

Saudi Arabia

20

Mikhail Fridman

Russia

43

20.8

Russia

21

Vladimir Lisin

Russia

51

20.3

Russia

22

Amancio Ortega

Spain

72

20.2

Spain

23

Raymond, Thomas & Walter Kwok

Hong Kong

NA

19.9

Hong Kong

24

Mikhail Prokhorov

Russia

42

19.5

Russia

25

Vladimir Potanin

Russia

47

19.3

Russia

Malaysia Ranking in world billionaires:

Rank

Name

Citizenship

Age

Net Worth USD ($billion)

Residence

131

Ananda Krishnan

Malaysia

69

7.2

Malaysia

173

Lee Shin Cheng

Malaysia

68

5.7

Malaysia

334

Teh Hong Piow

Malaysia

78

3.3

Malaysia

524

Quek Leng Chan

Malaysia

67

2.3

Malaysia

573

Yeoh Tiong Lay & family

Malaysia

78

2.1

Malaysia

605

Syed Mokhtar AlBukhary

Malaysia

56

2.0

Malaysia

1014

Tiong Hiew King

Malaysia

72

1.1

Malaysia



Nota: Hanya sorang je melayu dalam banyak-banyak ni.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

anak pak lah xde ke? hehe

romzi seli said...

Chot,

Takder ler plak jumpa nama dalam ni. Tapi kalau dalam top 40 Malaysia, memang ada nama dia.