$ 69 billion to keep Carlos Slim, the richest man in the world

Keep a Mexican businessman Carlos Slim on Wednesday top the annual Forbes magazine's list of world's billionaires with a wealth estimated at about $ 69 billion while the rival Mexican Ricardo Salinas Blijo largest increase in wealth.

The U.S. Bill Gates, Microsoft founder of computer programs in second place with $ 61 billion, followed by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway group owner investment worth $ 44 billion.

And keep the Frenchman Bernard Arnault, the richest people in Europe in fourth place. It was four in the same order in this last year. The smallest woman Asamih Sara Blakely (41 years), Foundation for Spanks lingerie The value of wealth billion dollars and occupies the center 1153 of the 104 women in the list.

The 58 countries were represented in the list of billionaires, which included 1226 people, the average wealth per $ 3.7 billion of them. The Forbes list included about 128 new billionaires, including Colombia's Alejandro Santo Domingo (35 years), the richest billionaire in the new world with $ 9.5 billion, the owner of Santo Domingo group after the death of his father last year.

In addition to the usual wealthy elderly and survivors came the founder of the social networking site Facebook and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg (27 years), ranked 35th with $ 5.17 billion dollars. And announced the largest network of social networking in the world announced plans last month for an initial public offering will value Facebook $ 100 billion.

And jumped Zuckerberg 17 centers and net worth increased $ 4 billion while the total wealth of the owners of Facebook seven $ 28.7 billion including 5.3 billion dollars to Dustin Moskowitz (27 years), a fellow Zuckerberg at Harvard University in the past and which was included in the list as the youngest self-made man.

The most prominent of landed from the list of this year, the British novelist J.. KT. Rowling author of the Harry Potter series after its wealth fell to less than one billion dollars, due in part to the high tax rates in Britain and the donation of about $ 150 million to charity. Dropped from the list also Balsela C. Co-CEO and Co-Chair of the Group of Research In Motion BlackBerry producing phones.

The United States topped the list again with 425 billionaires, without being affected by the apparent movement of the "occupation", which sought to highlight the inequality in income. Russia and China for more than occupies the second place with 96 billionaires Milidara compared with 95 for China. Morocco entered the list for the first time in three billionaires.

Moscow topped all cities in the world, as there are 78 billionaires, followed by New York and has 58 billionaires, then London and has 39 billionaires. And occupied the sound (72 years), ranked first in the list for the third consecutive year based on estimates of the value of the assets of Ambratortah communications. Slim and collect most of his fortune pole in the telecommunications industry to expand the activities of retail, finance, commodities and energy.