Multiple choice

Who was named as the richest person in the world with $53.5 billion in assets in the US magazine Forbes' annual list of the world's top billionaires released in 2010?

  1. Bill Gates

  2. Carlos Slim

  3. Warren Buffet

  4. Lakshmi Mittal
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Explanation

Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim has emerged the richest person in the world with \$53.5 billion in assets, while Indian industrialist Mukesh Ambani, chief of Reliance Industries, ranks fourth with \$29 billion in U.S. magazine Forbes' annual list of the world's top billionaires released on March 19, 2010.

Slim is followed by William Gates III (Bill Gates), with a net worth of \$53 billion, and Warren Buffet in the third spot with assets worth \$47 billion.

NRI billionaire Lakshmi Mittal ranks fifth with a net worth of \$28.7 billion.
There are 1,011 billionaires in the world now, up from 793 a year ago.
Gates has held the top spot for 14 of the past 15 years.
The U.S. has 403 billionaires — the most in the world — followed by China, which beat Russia to grab the second spot.
New York has more billionaires than any other city.
The youngest billionaire — with a net worth of \$4 billion — is 25-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of social networking website Facebook. The list of Indian billionaires include Mukesh Ambani and Lakshmi Mittal in the top two, along with Azim Premji ($17 billion), Anil Ambani ($13.7 billion), Shashi and Ravi Ruia ($13 billion), Savitri Jindal ($12.2 billion), Kushal Pal Singh ($9 billion), Kumar Birla ($7.9 billion), Sunil Mittal (\$7.8 billion) and Anil Agarwal (\$6.4 billion).

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