Bill Gates is no more listed as the “Worlds richest person”

For the first time should call themselves the Mexican Carlos Slim the richest man in the world. The telecommunications tycoon has, according to the U.S. magazine Forbes a fortune of 53.3 billion U.S. dollars. Richest Austrian is Billa-founders Karl Wlaschek.

Slim was already several times in the interim scoring forward, now it was the 70-year-old the first time in the annual ranking to conquer the peak. The Mexican has loudly Forbes about 53.3 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of measly 300 million U.S. dollars more than Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who is in second place this time.

Richest Europeans, Bernard Arnault. The Frenchman heads the group LVMH, which owns the rights to luxury brands like Louis Vuitton.

Only 89 women in the Forbes list

Overall, in the Forbes list of all 1011 people are listed which have assets of more than one billion U.S. dollars. Compared with the previous year, this is a significant increase, as there were only 793 billionaires worldwide.

Among the 1,000 billionaires are only 89 women. Most of them have inherited the property, as the richest woman in the world - the U.S. Christy Walton is an American heiress of the U.S. department store chain Wal-Mart and has 22.5 billion dollars. Only 14 women have amassed their wealth themselves.

Elder billionaire is 99 years old

Youngest billionaire is Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, with four billion U.S. dollars. The elders in the ForbesRanking is Walter Haefner with 3.3 billion U.S. dollars. The 99-year-old Swiss is the majority shareholder of the software company CA.

Wlaschek is the most Austrians

Only seven years younger than Haefner is the most Austrians. Karl Wlaschek earned from the sale of the Billa chain he founded a fortune. Since then, he invested in real estate and according to Forbes 4.4 billion dollars.

Second richest Austrians, Red Bull boss Dietrich Mateschitz, which is estimated at 4.1 billion U.S. dollars. Austrian is the largest department store heiress Heidi Horten, with 3.1 billion U.S. dollars. A total of four Austrians in 1011 among the billionaires.

Extract from the Forbes billionaire rankings:

Place	Name	Nation	Assets (in billions of U.S. dollars)	Source of income
1	Carlos Slim	Mexico	53,3	Telecommunications
2	Bill Gates	USA	53,0	Microsoft (software)
3	Warren Buffett	USA	47,0	Berkshire Hathaway (Investment)
4	Mukesh Ambani	India	29,0	Reliance Industries (oil and gas)
5	Lakshmi Mittal	India	28,7	Steel Industry
6	Lawrence Ellison	USA	28,0	Oracle (IT)
7	Bernard Arnault	France	27,5	LVMH (luxury goods)
8	Eike Batista	Brazil	27,0	Oil, mines
9	Amancio Ortega	Spain	25,0	Zara (clothing stores)
10	Karl Albrecht	Germany	23,5	Aldi (supermarket chain)
12	Christy Walton	USA	22,5	Walmart (supermarket chain)
189	Karl Wlaschek	Austria	4,4	Immobile
208	Dietrich Mateschitz	Austria	4,1	Red Bull (Beverage Group)
307	Heidi Horten	Austria	3,1	Department store heiress
721	Helmut Sohmen	Austria	1,4	BW Group (Merchant Shipping)