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More and more billionaires in the world, Bill Gates still No. 1

Publié02-03-2015 at 6:16 p.m.Updated 04-03-2015 at 3:10

The Forbes list of billionaires in 2015 (c) AFP

New York ( AFP ) - The world has a record number of billionaires, increasingly rich, the most fortunate of all is the American Bill Gates , according to the annual ranking of Forbes magazine on Monday.

In one year, the fortune of the co-founder of Microsoft rose 3.2 billion to $ 79.2 billion.Mexico's Carlos Slim, telecommunications magnate, number 2 ranking, saw his fortune to spend 72 to $ 77.1 billion, and that of the American businessman Warren Buffett jumped $ 14.5 billion in one year, reaching 72.7 billion, which earned him third place. It relegates to the fourth Spaniard Amacio Ortega, founder of the clothing brand Zara (64.5 billion, 0.5 billion more than in 2014).

This is the only disruption compared to last year, for the five richest men in the world : The fifth remains Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle, with $ 54.3 billion.

In total , Forbes list this year has a record number of 1,826 billionaires, against 1,645 last year, of which 46 are under 40 years old, another record.The first 17 have all seen their fortunes rise since last year.

And the accumulated wealth of the ultra-rich now reached 7.050 billion, against 6,400 in 2014.

In French, Liliane Bettencourt , 92, heiress of L'Oreal, 10th arrives with $ 40.1 billion (5.6 billion compared to 2014). Bernard Arnault , owner of the luxury group LVMH , is 13th, with $ 37.2 billion (33.5 in 2014), followed by Patrick Drahi , president of the telecommunications multinational Altice (57, 16 billion), Serge Dassault (62, 15.3 billion) and François Pinault (65th, 14.9 billion).

-The Youngest is 24 years -

At 30, the founder of Facebook , Mark Zuckerberg , among the top 20, now 16th with $ 33.4 billion (against 28.5 last year).

The youngest of the list is the California Evan Spiegel, 24, CEO of Snapchat , ephemeral messaging application that he created in 2011 with Bobby Murphy, 25 years. Both occupy 1.250e place ranking with a fortune equivalent to $ 1.5 billion.

Among the age of 40, as are the two founders of Uber, the application launched in 2009 that allows you to call a car with driver: Travis Kalanick, 38, and Garrett Camp, 36, are tied for the 283rd Place (5.3 billion). The CEOof Uber Ryan Graves, 31, is 1.324e (1.4 billion).

Also billionaires the three co-founders of the rental site Airbnb, Nathan Blecharczyk, 31, Brian Chesky, 33, and Joe Gebbia, 33, all at the 1006th site (1.9 billion).

-Women More numerous -

The number of women still limited, however, is in progress: 197 against 172 in 2014.

The richest is the heir supermarkets Wal-Mart Christy Walton, in 8th place (41.7 billion) followed in 10th place by Mrs. Bettencourt . Among the French, also appear including Elisabeth Badinter (1.173e 1.7 billion) and Marie Beauvalot Besnier, Lactalis Group héritère (737th, $ 2.5 billion). The United States have 67 billionaires women, followed by Germany (19) and Brazil (13).

The good performance of the technology sector and the increase in the dollar against the euro strengthened the American position in the ranking in 2015: they are 536 to be included, followed by China (213), of Germany (103) of India (90) and Russia (88).

the Europe has 482 billionaires.

Most of these billionaires (1191) states Forbes , built their fortune. Only 230 have inherited, and if 405 have at least partially inherited, they work to make it grow.