Forbes 2017 Billionaires List - Latest Current Affairs for Competitive Exams

Question: On March 20, 2017, 31st Annual Forbes List of Billionaires, 2017 was released. Who has received the title of the world’s richest person in this year’s list?
(A) Amancio Ortega
(B) Mark Zuckerberg
(C) Bill Gates
(D) Warren Buffett
Answer- (c)
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On March 20, 2017, the 31st Annual Forbes World’s Billionaires List, 2017 has been released.
World’s 2043 billionaires (Richest people) are included in this list whose total net worth is $ 7.67 trillion.
This year, the maximum 565 billionaires are from the USA followed by China (319 billionaires), Germany (114 billionaires) and India (101 billionaires).
For the first time, the number of billionaires in India has crossed 100.
Microsoft’s co-founder Bill Gates has received the title of the world’s richest man in the list.
His total asset is of $ 86 billion.
In 2016, his total assets were estimated for 75 billion dollars.
After Gates, Warren Buffett ($ 75.6 billion), Jeff Bezos ($ 72.8 billion), Amancio Ortega (71.3) and Mark Zuckerberg ($ 56 billion) are at second, third, fourth and fifth positions respectively in the list.
American President Donald Trump is 544th in this list with a net worth of $ 3.5 billion.
The richest Indian Mukesh Ambani is at the 33rd position in the list with a net worth of $ 23.2 billiont.
Steel King Lakshmi Mittal ($ 16.4 billion) is 56th , Wipro Chairman Azim Premji
($ 14.9 billion) is 72nd and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries founder Dilip Shanghvi ($ 13.7 billion) is 84th .
In this year’s list, 227 women have been able to make their place, including five Indian women. Total 190 women have got place in the list for year 2016.
According to the Forbes list of billionaires, 2017, Liliane Bettencourt (ranked 14th ) is the world’s richest woman.
Her net wealth worth of $ 39.5 billion.
The number of billionaires who have been included first time in Forbes annual list is 195.
Alexandra Anderson (Norway) is the youngest billionaire in the list for 2017.
20-year-old Alexandra Anderson is ranked 1678th with a property of 1.2 billion dollars.
America’s David Rockefeller, the oldest billionaire (101 years), with a property worth $ 3.3 billion is at 581th position in the list.

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