A lot could have happened in the financial world because a check on Forbes website on Friday, revealed that Dangote, with an estimated wealth of $21bn, is now ranked 37th richest person.
American billionaire and Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, returned to the number one spot after staying four years behind Mexico's telecoms mogul, Carlos Slim Helu, who is now second.
Below is the list of the top 50 richest people in the world
Name Worth Country of Citizenship
1 Bill Gates $82.1 bn US
2 Carlos Slim Helu & family $80.2 bn Mexico
3 Warren Buffett $70.2 bn US
4 Amancio Ortega $58.1 bn Spain
5 Larry Ellison $50.2 bn US
6 Charles Koch $42.6 bn US
6 David Koch $42.6 bn US
8 Christy Walton & family $38.5 bn US
9 Jim Walton $37.2 bn US
10 Michael Bloomberg $35.8 bn US
11 Alice Walton $35.7 bn US
12 Robson Walton $35.7 bn US
13 Liliane Bettencourt & family $35.4 bn France
14 Mark Zuckerberg $33.2 bn US
15 Bernard Arnault & family $31.2 bn France
16 Stefan Persson $31 bn Sweden
17 Li Ka-shing $30.9 bn Hong Kong
18 Sheldon Adelson $30.3 bn US
19 Larry Page $30.1 bn US
20 Sergey Brin $29.6 bn US
21 Jeff Bezos $27.7 bn US
22 Carl Icahn $25.7 bn US
23 Michele Ferrero & family $24.9 bn Italy
24 David Thomson & family $24.2 bn Canada
25 George Soros $24 bn US
26 Forrest Mars Jr $23.8 bn US
26 Jacqueline Mars $23.8 bn US
26 John Mars $23.8 bn US
29 Jack Ma $23.5 bn China
30 Steve Ballmer $23.1 bn US
31 Mukesh Ambani $22.6 bn India
32 Jorge Paulo Lemann $22.2 bn Brazil
33 Lee Shau Kee $22.1 bn Hong Kong
34 Phil Knight $22 bn US
35 Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud $21.5 bn Saudi Arabi
36 Michael Dell $21.4 bn US
37 Aliko Dangote $21.3 bn Nigeria
38 Dilip Shanghvi $19.6 bn India
39 Len Blavatnik $19.2 bn US
40 Tadashi Yanai & family $18.4 bn Japan
41 Leonardo Del Vecchio $18.1 bn Italy
42 Alisher Usmanov $17.8 bn Russia
43 Laurene Powell Jobs & family $17.2 bn US
44 Robin Li $17.1 bn China
45 Paul Allen $17.1 bn US
46 Theo Albrecht Jr & family $16.9 bn Germany
47 Michael Otto & family $16.6 bn Germany
48 Charles Ergen $16.6 bn US
49 Masayoshi Son $16.5 bn Japan
50 Anne Cox Chambers $16.1 bn US
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