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Carlos Slim Richest People in the World

Liputan6.com, New York: Recently, Forbes magazine says there are about 1011 billionaires in the world in 2009. This amount rose as much as 218 points from the previous year undergoing degeneration due to financial crisis. Most of the current new billionaires comes from developing economies in Asia, like China and India.

United States business magazine also reported that of Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim became the richest man in the world. The owner of the largest mobile phone company in Latin America has assets of about U.S. $ 53.5 billion.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates who had become the richest person in the second diposisi. Meanwhile, the richest man in Japan achieved Forbes Uniqlo clothing brand owners, Tadashi Yanai. Yanai was in 89th position overall with estimated assets of U.S. $ 7.6 billion.

A social networking company's president, Yoshikazu Tanaka (33 years), is one of Japan's 22 billionaires are in position 721 as a whole, as reported by NHK, Thursday (11 / 3).

The number of millionaires in China and India more than doubled compared to 2009 survey. Forbes said there were 64 Chinese billionaires in 2009, up 28 from the previous year, while the number of Indian billionaires increased from 24 to 49. (RST / ADO)