Warren Buffet tops Bill Gates as world's richest

US financier Warren Buffett has overtaken Bill Gates as the world's richest man, according to Forbes annual billionaire's list, which this year saw Russia, China and India making increasing inroads.

Buffett, the 77-year-old chief of the Berkshire Hathaway holding company, saw his wealth jump from 52 billion dollars last year to 62 billion, pushing Microsoft co-founder Gates into third position after 13 years at the top.

Mexico's telecom mogul Carlos Slim Helu grabbed second place with a tidy nest egg of 60 billion dollars, up from 49 billion last year.

Buffett, who announced in 2006 he was giving the majority of his fortune to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, saw his wealth spike mostly due to the rising value of his Berkshire Hathaway stock.

In total, this year's list sees 1,125 people around the world making the billionaire's list, up from 946 last year. Their total net worth stands at 4.4 trillion dollars, up from 3.5 trillion dollars in 2007.

By nationality, the United States still easily led the rankings with 469 billionaires up from 415 last year, but Russia replaced Germany as the second placed country with 87 billionaires.

Third-placed India saw the number of its super-rich jump to 53 entries on the list -- four of them in the top 10 -- although China and Hong Kong if taken together would overtake it, with 42 and 26 billionaires respectively.

Japan, although still the second largest economy in the world, saw its number of billionaires trailing at 24 -- overtaken by Turkey, which this year saw its number of mega-tycoons on the list jump from 22 in 2007 to 35.

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The complete list!

May the real Slim Shady please stand up

The World's Richest Jew. Sheldon Adelson, dropped from 6th place to 12th place.

איך נפלו הגבורים

I wish it would say which business they're in.

Can someone pull all the Jewish names from the list? I saw an Eliezer something in Brazil.

I'll do my best with the top 500...

12 Sheldon Adelson
15 Alexei Abramovich
20 Mikhail Fridman
65 Michael Bloomberg
67 Viktor Vekselberg
87 Ronald Perelman
97 George Soros
101 Joseph Safra
137 Steven Cohen
140 Sammy Ofer
178 David & Simon Reuben
222 Stef Wertheimer
227 Lev Leviev
256 Shari Arison
256 Leonard Stern
260 Simon Halabi
260 Eliezer Steinbruch
296 Beny Steinmetz
307 Bruce Kovner
307 Yitzchak Tshuva
327 Haim Saban
368 Steven Spielberg
412 Moise Safra
462 David Rubenstein

Thanks!

Do you know what business they're in?

Nope (except for the obvious ones like Safra=Banking and Real Estate, Steven Spielberg=movies)

You left off:
40 Michael Dell
If you don't know what business he's in you live under a rock!

Can somebody please put a cherem against this lowlife for his grossly unethical dealings and causing anti-Semitism?

Eli

How did you figure?

Who on Earth is Alexei Abramovich ?

Look at the last name and tell me where you see it most often.

Eli