According to Forbes' World Billionaires list Bill Gates (pictured) topped the list of the world’s richest billionaires for the 17th time in 22 years, it has been revealed.
Though the 60-year-old Microsoft net worth of $75billion has put him in the top spot of the spot on for the third year in a row, after overcoming Mexico’s Carlos Slim Helu in 2014.
Helu came in fourth in Forbes’ 2016 list of 1,810 billionaires, behind Gates, Zara’s Amancio Ortega and business mogul Warren Buffett, respectively.
Others who made the top ten include Amazon’s Jeff Bezos at fifth on the list, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook at sixth, Oracle’s Larry Ellison at seventh, Michael Bloomberg at eighth, and tied for ninth are David and Charles Koch.
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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg broke the list's top ten this year, moving up from number 16 to number six on the list
Oracle's Larry Ellison (left) is ranked seventh on Forbes' billionaires list, with a net worth of $43.6billion. Michael Bloomberg (right) is not far behind in eighth, with a net worth of $40billion
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