Forbes has recently released the list of Billionaires in the world. The total List consists of 793 Billionaires living on this Earth – The economic downturn however has taken a heavy toll – Last year there were total of 1125 billionaires out of which 373 have fallen from grace.
The world’s richest are also a lot poorer. Their collective net worth is $2.4 trillion, down $2 trillion from a year ago. Their average net worth fell 23% to $3 billion. The last time the average was that low was in 2003.
Bill Gates lost $18 billion but regained his title as the world’s richest man !
Now, how many Indians are in the List – that’s what this list is all about – Out of 793 Billionaires – Only 24 of them are Indian Citizens.
In Last year’s billionaire’s list 4 out of top 10 were Indians. Its not so this time around though. We have only 2 Indians in top 10 Billionaire Rankings. Mukesh Ambani at 7th and Laksmi Mittal at 8th. The stock Market crash has eroded their wealth big time !
Here are the list of 24 Indians that figure in the list of Billionaires:
RANK | NAME | CITIZENSHIP | AGE | NET WORTH ($BIL) | RESIDENCE |
7 |
Mukesh Ambani |
India |
51 |
19.5 |
India |
8 |
Lakshmi Mittal |
India |
58 |
19.3 |
United Kingdom |
34 |
Anil Ambani |
India |
49 |
10.1 |
India |
59 |
Sunil Mittal & family |
India |
51 |
7.7 |
India |
83 |
Azim Premji |
India |
63 |
5.7 |
India |
86 |
Shashi & Ravi Ruia |
India |
65 |
5.6 |
India |
98 |
Kushal Pal Singh |
India |
77 |
5.0 |
India |
124 |
Kumar Birla |
India |
41 |
4.2 |
India |
183 |
Adi Godrej & family |
India |
66 |
3.3 |
India |
205 |
Dilip Shanghvi |
India |
53 |
3.0 |
India |
234 |
Savitri Jindal |
India |
59 |
2.7 |
India |
246 |
Malvinder & Shivinder Singh |
India |
33 |
2.6 |
India |
318 |
G M Rao |
India |
58 |
2.1 |
India |
334 |
Micky Jagtiani |
India |
57 |
2.0 |
United Arab Emirates |
397 |
Gautam Adani |
India |
46 |
1.8 |
India |
397 |
Indu Jain |
India |
72 |
1.8 |
India |
430 |
Shiv Nadar |
India |
63 |
1.7 |
India |
468 |
Cyrus Poonawalla |
India |
67 |
1.5 |
India |
468 |
Anil Agarwal |
India |
55 |
1.5 |
United Kingdom |
601 |
Uday Kotak |
India |
50 |
1.2 |
India |
601 |
Kalanidhi Maran |
India |
43 |
1.2 |
India |
601 |
Chandru Raheja |
India |
68 |
1.2 |
India |
647 |
Subhash Chandra |
India |
58 |
1.1 |
India |
701 |
Anurag Dikshit |
India |
37 |
1.0 |
Gibraltar |
All the big hype surrounding Mukesh Ambani becoming the richest man in the world seems to have now vanished into thin air :)