Once again, Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim became the richest person in the world, retaining his crown for the second year in a row. He has made more money than anybody in the past year taking his fortune to $74 billion with a total earning of $20.5 billion last year.Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates held on to second place, growing his wealth to $56 billion from $53 billion last year, and investor Warren Buffett again came in third with $50 billion, up from $47 billion. So, the top three positions are still held by the last year top three billionaires.
In total, the wealth of the world's billionaires jumped 25 percent to $4.5 trillion and their average net worth rose to $3.7 billion from $3.5 billion.
As per Forbes Senior Editor Luisa Kroll, it is possible to meet a billionaire, fall in love and live happily ever after, but it's not all that easy since there are a record number of billionaires around the world in 2011, but just 14 percent of them are eligible.
As per the latest report, in total there are 1210 billionaires across the world, out of which only 175 are available in which 48 are female. In the available 175, 36 have never married, 81 are divorced, 6 are separated and rest 52 are widowed. To add more to it, many of these 175 available billionaires are practically not available including Facebook's Dustin Moskovitz, Mark Zuckerberg and Sean Parker who are having serious affairs with their to be partners.
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