{"id":9639,"date":"2016-03-08T12:36:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T12:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=9639"},"modified":"2016-03-08T12:36:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T12:36:21","slug":"forbes-list-billionaires-2016-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/forbes-list-billionaires-2016-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbes list of Billionaires 2016 released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: On 1 March 2016 the 30th edition of annual ranking of World\u2019s Billionaires- 2016 was released the by Forbes magazine. Who topped the list?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Warren Buffett<br \/>\n(b) Bill Gates<br \/>\n(c) Mark Zuckerberg<br \/>\n(d) Amancio Ortega<br \/>\n<strong>Ans (b)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>March 2016 the 30th edition of annual ranking of World\u2019s Billionaires- 2016 \u00a0 was released the by\u00a0Forbes.<\/li>\n<li>Forbes included 1810 billionaires in 2016 with net worth <strong>$6.48 trillion<\/strong> compared to 1826 in 2015.<\/li>\n<li>In this list US has maximum\u00a0540 billionaires\u00a0followed by China\u00a0with 251, Germany\u00a0with 120, Russia with 77 and India with 84.<\/li>\n<li>With a net worth of $75 billion Bill Gates has been declared the richest man in the world for the 17th time and for the third consecutive yearby the magazine.<\/li>\n<li>During the last one year the assets of Bill Gates decreased by $ 4.2 billion.<\/li>\n<li>It may be recalled that his net worth in 2015 was estimated at $ 79.2 billion.<\/li>\n<li>The list is followed by Amancio Ortega ($67 Billon) as second, Warren Buffett ($60.8 Billion) as third and Carlos Slim Helu ($50 Billion) as fourth.<\/li>\n<li>India\u2019s richest person Mukesh Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Industries was placed at 36th position with net fortune of $19.3 billion. He was followed by Dilip Shanghvi ($16.7 Billion, 44th) the founder and managing director of Sun Pharmaceuticals and Azim Premji ($15 Billion, 55th) the chairman of Wipro Limited.<\/li>\n<li>This year 190 women included in the list while in 2015 the number was 197.<\/li>\n<li>The highest ranking woman on the rich list is French\u00a0businesswoman and socialite Liliane Bettencourt. The billionaire, who holds a 27.5% stake in L&#8217;Oreal.<\/li>\n<li>With assets of $ 36.1 billion she is ranked 11<sup>th<\/sup> in the list.<\/li>\n<li>This year 198 newcomers joined the list.<\/li>\n<li>World\u2019s youngest billionaire is 19 year old Norwegain Alexandra Andresen was ranked 1,476th with fortune of $1.2 billion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/luisakroll\/2016\/03\/01\/forbes-2016-worlds-billionaires-meet-the-richest-people-on-the-planet\/#b87c4c841cbf\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/luisakroll\/2016\/03\/01\/forbes-2016-worlds-billionaires-meet-the-richest-people-on-the-planet\/#b87c4c841cbf<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/billionaires\/list\/#version:static\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/billionaires\/list\/#version:static<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: On 1 March 2016 the 30th edition of annual ranking of World\u2019s Billionaires- 2016 was released the by Forbes magazine. Who topped the list? (a) Warren Buffett (b) Bill Gates (c) Mark Zuckerberg (d) Amancio Ortega Ans (b) Related facts: March 2016 the 30th edition of annual ranking of World\u2019s Billionaires- 2016 \u00a0 was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}