In the USA Forbes magazine has published its annual list of the richest people in the world. Bill Gates of Microsoft is the richest man again for the eleventh successive year with a fortune of forty-four billion dollars.
There are a record 691 dollar billionaires according to Forbes magazine. Between them they have a fortune of two point two trillion dollars. The highest concentration of the ultra-rich is in New York followed by Moscow and San Fransisco and then London and Los Angeles. But in total the very wealthy live in forty seven different countries with Iceland Kazakstan Ukraine and Poland entering the list for the first time this year.
Laksmi Mittal an Indian born steel tycoon enjoyed the biggest increase in personal fortune. His net worth has quadrupled to thirteen billion dollars making him the world＇third richest man. Ingvar Kamprad founder of the Swedish furniture chain Ikea also saw a big increase in wealth taking him to sixth place. Developing countries make more of a showing than in past years - there are for example three Russians and four Indians in the top sixty richest people though surprisingly perhaps none from China excluding Hong Kong. Asian wealth is probably under-represented as its usually spread among families whereas Forbes looks at individuals.
Relatively few women feature in the list - among them is JK Rowling author of the Harry Potter novels ranked 620th with a fortune of 519 million dollars. New entrants to the list include the founders of the internet search group Google Sergie Brin and Larry Page each worth more than seven billion dollars after their company＇s recent stock market debut. The richest Italian is the prime minister Silvio Berlusconi ranked number 25 in the global wealth league.
在美国《福布斯》推出的全球富豪排行榜上，比尔-盖茨已连续坐这个位子11年了。
世界上最富有的人--比尔-盖茨(图)
美国的《福布斯》杂志每年都要推出她的全球富豪排行榜。微软的比尔-盖茨以440亿美元的资产再次坐上全球首富的交椅，他已连续坐这个位子11年了。
在美国《福布斯》推出的全球富豪排行榜上，比尔-盖茨已连续坐这个位子11年了。
此次入围《富布斯》榜单的亿万富翁共有691人，资产总和达了2.2万亿美元。富翁最多的地方是纽约，然后依次分别是莫斯科、旧金山、伦敦和洛杉矶。从整体上看，富翁们分别来自47个国家，而冰岛、哈萨克斯坦、乌克兰和波兰的富翁今年是第一次进入该榜单。
出生在印度的钢铁大亨拉什米-米塔尔的个人财富增长最快，他的净资产增长了四倍达130亿美元，使他成为了世界上第三位富有的人。瑞典宜家家居的创始人英格瓦-卡普拉德也因财富的迅速增长而上升到了第六位。发展中国家同过去相比已经有了善好的表现。除香港外，尽管前60名中没有一个来自中国内地，但是却有3个俄罗斯人和4个印度人进入。不过亚洲的统计可能不具代表性，因为他们通常都是家族式发展，而《福布斯》看重的是个人。
相比而言，榜单上的女性比较少，《哈利-波特》小说的作者JK-罗琳就以519，000，000美元的资产排名620位。新入选榜单的富翁包括网络搜索巨头Google的创建人布琳和裴基，在他们公司的股票上市后，他俩每人的财富都超过了70亿美元。意大利最富有的人是总理贝卢斯科尼，他在这次全球财富排名中排到了第25位。(鹿洁/译)
