List of the 100 wealthiest people in TutorGig Encyclopedia

This list of the 100 wealthiest people is a list of the world's 100 wealthiest people as of February 11 2008, based on each person's total net worth. The total net worth is an estimate measured in United States dollars, based on the closing stock prices of the stock exchanges on which each person's company is listed, and exchange rates on February 11, 2008. Stock prices are defined as shares of ownership in a corporation, and exchange rates are defined as how much one currency is worth in terms of another. This list only represents each person's valuation on a single day due to daily fluctuations among exchange rates and stock valuations.

Top billionaires

The following list is the ranking of the world's richest billionaires on February 11 2008, and does not reflect changes since that date. The top three countries with the most billionaires are: United States with over 400, Russia with 87, and India and Germany with 56 each.

Name	Net worth (USD)	Age	Residence	Sources of wealth	Ref.
	$62.0 billion	77		Berkshire Hathaway	^[1]
	$60.0 billion	68		Telmex, América Móvil	^[1]
	$58.0 billion	52		Microsoft	^[1]
	$45.0 billion	57		Arcelor Mittal	^[2]
	$43.0 billion	50		Reliance Industries	^[2]
	$42.0 billion	48		Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group	^[2]
and family	$31.0 billion	81		IKEA	^[2]
	$30.0 billion	76		DLF Group	^[2]
	$28.0 billion	40		Rusal	^[2]
	$27.0 billion	88		ALDI	^[2]
	$26.5 billion	79		Cheung Kong Holdings, Hutchison Whampoa	^[3]
	$26.0 billion	74		Las Vegas Sands	^[4]
	$25.5 billion	59		LVMH Moët Hennessy ? Louis Vuitton	^[5]
	$25.0 billion	63		Oracle Corporation	^[1]
	$23.5 billion	41		Millhouse Capital	^[6]
	$23.1 billion	62		Brunei Shell Petroleum	^[7]
	$23.0 billion	85		ALDI, Trader Joe's	^[8]
	$22.9 billion	85		L'Oréal	^[1]
	$21.2 billion	42		Severstal	^[6]
	$21.0 billion	51		Kingdom Holding Company, Citigroup	^[9]
	$20.8 billion	43		Alfa Group
	$20.3 billion	51		Novolipetsk Steel	^[10]
	$20.2 billion	72		Inditex Group	^[11]
, Thomas Kwok, and Walter Kwok	$19.9 billion		Sun Hung Kai
	$19.5 billion	42		Interros	^[10]
	$19.3 billion	47		Interros	^[10]
and family	$19.2 billion	53		Wal-Mart	^[12]
	$19.2 billion	60		Wal-Mart	^[12]
	$19.2 billion	64		Wal-Mart	^[12]
	$19.0 billion	80		Henderson Land Development
	$19.0 billion	58		Wal-Mart	^[12]
and family	$18.9 billion	50		The Thomson Corporation	^[13]
	$18.7 billion	34		Google	^[1]
	$18.6 billion	35		Google	^[1]
and family	$18.2 billion	64		Otto GmbH
	$17.7 billion	60		Hennes & Mauritz
	$17.5 billion	42		Gazprom, Sberbank
	$17.0 billion	72		Koch Industries	^[14]
	$17.0 billion	67		Koch Industries	^[14]
and family	$16.9 billion	71		PPR
	$16.4 billion	43		Dell
	$16.0 billion	55		Microsoft	^[9]
	$16.0 billion	90		Tracinda Corporation	^[4]
	$15.0 billion	52		Microsoft	^[15]
	$15.0 billion	46		Fidelity Investments
and Ravi Ruia	$15.0 billion		Essar
and family	$14.0 billion	64		M. A. Kharafi & Sons
and family	$14.0 billion	56		Grosvenor Group	^[16]
	$14.0 billion	72		American Car and Foundry Company	^[4]
	$14.0 billion	76		Mars, Incorporated	^[4]
	$14.0 billion	68		Mars, Incorporated	^[4]
	$14.0 billion	71		Mars, Incorporated	^[4]
and family	$14.0 billion	84		Tetra Laval
and family	$14.0 billion	85		Enterprise Rent-A-Car
	$13.9 billion	46		TNK-BP
	$13.2 billion	45		BMW
	$13.0 billion	57		LUKoil
	$13.0 billion	75		Irvine Company
and Gerard Wertheimer	$12.9 billion		Chanel
	$12.8 billion	41		Uralkali
	$12.7 billion	62		Wipro Technologies
	$12.7 billion	53		Orascom Telecom Holding
	$12.6 billion	88		Cox Enterprises
	$11.9 billion	44		Uralskaya Gorno-Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya
and family	$11.8 billion	50		Bharti Airtel
	$11.5 billion	49		Evraz Group
	$11.5 billion	66		Bloomberg L.P.	^[11]
	$11.2 billion	50		Renova Group
and family	$11.0 billion	81		Ferrero SpA
	$11.0 billion	65		BOK Financial Corporation
and family	$11.0 billion	61		EFG Bank European Financial Group
	$11.0 billion	46		Orascom Construction Industries (OCI)
	$10.8 billion	45		Alfa Group
	$10.4 billion	70		Nike
	$10.4 billion	59		Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works
	$10.3 billion	42		Serono
	$10.2 billion	40		Aditya Birla Group
	$10.0 billion	72		Luxottica
and family	$10.0 billion	79		Votorantim Group
and family	$10.0 billion		Antofagasta PLC, Quiñenco
	$10.0 billion	77		Fidelity Investments
	$10.0 billion	82		Tetra Laval	^[16]
	$10.0 billion	59		Sistema
	$10.0 billion	47		Mechel
and family	$9.9 billion	82		Dassault Group
	$9.8 billion	75		Grupo Bal
	$9.6 billion	68		Unitech Group
	$9.5 billion	55		Dish Network Corporation
	$9.5 billion	93		Metromedia	^[11]
	$9.5 billion	65		Revlon
and family	$9.4 billion	71		Fininvest
	$9.3 billion	45		Adani Group	^[3]
	$9.3 billion	43		PPF Group
	$9.3 billion	54		Metalloinvest
	$9.2 billion	73		Phoenix Pharmahandel
	$9.2 billion	78		Allianz
	$9.1 billion	78		Orascom Telecom Holding
	$9.1 billion	62		Corral Petroleum Holdings
	$9.0 billion	84		Perlis Plantations Bhd
	$9.0 billion	77		Soros Fund Management
	$8.9 billion	54		Mashreq Bank	^[17]

List of the 100 wealthiest people

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