For The First Time Ever There Are Now More Than 2,000 Billionaires In The World

For the first time ever there are now more than 2,000 billionaires in the world (2,089 to be precise) and this is according to the 2015 Hurun Global Rich List.  In the list, India has for the first time surpassed Britain and Russia in terms of the number of residents with at least $1,000,000,000 (£656 million) in the bank.

Mark Zuckerberg & Bill Gates

The list also revealed that Microsoft founder Bill Gates remains the richest human alive, with a reported wealth of $85 billion, with Mexico’s Carlos Slim Helu a close second with $83 billion.

Out of the 2,089 billionaires, 40 people listed were under the age of forty, with Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, 30, being placed as the seventh richest man in the world.Snapchat founders Evan Spiegel, 24, and Bobby Murphy, 26, have also found themselves to be the youngest billionaires on the list.

Only 279 women made the list, and the USA and China by far contain the most billionaires.