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. Click the link to find out the comment about the billionaires:


Rank; Name; Country; Age; Net Worth(USD $billion); Residence
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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