More than ten percent of participants were born outside the United States.
The leader of the annual ranking of the 400 richest Americans by Forbes in the 23rd time was the founder of Microsoft bill gates.
His fortune the magazine estimated at 81 billion dollars, which is six billion more than in March when Forbes published the rating of world’s richest people, which was headed by gates.
Second place went to the CEO and founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos with 67 billion dollars. In the global ranking in spring, a billionaire ranked fifth with a fortune estimated at 45.2 billion dollars. It is noted that he earned for the year more than any other member of the list.
The CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett rounded out the top three from 65.5 billion dollars.
Fourth place for the first time took the head of Facebook mark Zuckerberg, whose fortune, according to Forbes, made up of 55.5 billion dollars. Fifth place went to the founder of Oracle, Larry Ellison (49.3 billion us dollars).
It is noted that the number of women on the list rose from 46 to 50. The richest of them was the heir to the Wal-Mart Empire Alice Walton, whose state is estimated at 35.4 billion dollars. In the overall ranking of the 400 richest Americans, it occupies 13-e a place.
The youngest billionaire in the ranking – the 26-year-old Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel. Its condition Forbes estimated at 2.1 billion dollrov (335 place).
More than ten percent of participants were born outside the United States. The richest of them Forbes called the Google co-founder Sergey Brin, whose parents brought him as a child in the United States from the Soviet Union.
In the ranking of Brin closes the first ten, his fortune is estimated at 37.5 milliondollars.
“400 richest in the country richer than ever,” notes Forbes.
