| RANK | NAME | CITIZENSHIP | AGE | NET WORTH ($BIL) | RESIDENCE |
| 1 | Carlos Slim Helu & family | Mexico | 70 | 53.5 | Mexico |
| 2 | William Gates III | United States | 54 | 53.0 | United States |
| 3 | Warren Buffett | United States | 79 | 47.0 | United States |
| 4 | Mukesh Ambani | India | 52 | 29.0 | India |
| 5 | Lakshmi Mittal | India | 59 | 28.7 | United Kingdom |
| 6 | Lawrence Ellison | United States | 65 | 28.0 | United States |
| 7 | Bernard Arnault | France | 61 | 27.5 | France |
| 8 | Eike Batista | Brazil | 53 | 27.0 | Brazil |
| 9 | Amancio Ortega | Spain | 74 | 25.0 | Spain |
| 10 | Karl Albrecht | Germany | 90 | 23.5 | Germany |
| 11 | Ingvar Kamprad & family | Sweden | 83 | 23.0 | Switzerland |
| 12 | Christy Walton & family | United States | 55 | 22.5 | United States |
| 13 | Stefan Persson | Sweden | 62 | 22.4 | Sweden |
| 14 | Li Ka-shing | Hong Kong | 81 | 21.0 | Hong Kong |
| 15 | Jim Walton | United States | 62 | 20.7 | United States |
| 16 | Alice Walton | United States | 60 | 20.6 | United States |
| 17 | Liliane Bettencourt | France | 87 | 20.0 | France |
| 18 | S. Robson Walton | United States | 66 | 19.8 | United States |
| 19 | Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud | Saudi Arabia | 55 | 19.4 | Saudi Arabia |
| 20 | David Thomson & family | Canada | 52 | 19.0 | Canada |
| 21 | Michael Otto & family | Germany | 66 | 18.7 | Germany |
| 22 | Lee Shau Kee | Hong Kong | 82 | 18.5 | Hong Kong |
| 23 | Michael Bloomberg | United States | 68 | 18.0 | United States |
| 24 | Sergey Brin | United States | 36 | 17.5 | United States |
| 24 | Charles Koch | United States | 74 | 17.5 | United States |
| 24 | David Koch | United States | 69 | 17.5 | United States |
| 24 | Larry Page | United States | 37 | 17.5 | United States |
| 28 | Michele Ferrero & family | Italy | 83 | 17.0 | Monaco |
| 28 | Kwok family | Hong Kong | NA | 17.0 | Hong Kong |
| 28 | Azim Premji | India | 64 | 17.0 | India |
| 31 | Theo Albrecht | Germany | 88 | 16.7 | Germany |
| 32 | Vladimir Lisin | Russia | 53 | 15.8 | Russia |
| 33 | Steven Ballmer | United States | 54 | 14.5 | United States |
| 33 | Robert Kuok | Malaysia | 86 | 14.5 | Hong Kong |
| 35 | George Soros | United States | 79 | 14.0 | United States |
| 36 | Anil Ambani | India | 50 | 13.7 | India |
| 37 | Paul Allen | United States | 57 | 13.5 | United States |
| 37 | Michael Dell | United States | 45 | 13.5 | United States |
| 39 | Mikhail Prokhorov | Russia | 44 | 13.4 | Russia |
| 40 | Birgit Rausing & family | Sweden | 86 | 13.0 | Switzerland |
| 40 | Shashi & Ravi Ruia | India | 66 | 13.0 | India |
| 42 | Mikhail Fridman | Russia | 45 | 12.7 | Russia |
| 43 | Jeffrey Bezos | United States | 46 | 12.3 | United States |
| 44 | Savitri Jindal | India | 60 | 12.2 | India |
| 45 | Donald Bren | United States | 77 | 12.0 | United States |
| 45 | Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family | United Kingdom | 58 | 12.0 | United Kingdom |
| 45 | John Paulson | United States | 54 | 12.0 | United States |
| 48 | Abigail Johnson | United States | 48 | 11.5 | United States |
| 48 | Jorge Paulo Lemann | Brazil | 70 | 11.5 | Brazil |
| 50 | Roman Abramovich | Russia | 43 | 11.2 | Russia |
| 51 | Susanne Klatten | Germany | 47 | 11.1 | Germany |
| 52 | Iris Fontbona & family | Chile | NA | 11.0 | Chile |
| 52 | Forrest Mars Jr | United States | 78 | 11.0 | United States |
| 52 | Jacqueline Mars | United States | 70 | 11.0 | United States |
| 52 | John Mars | United States | 73 | 11.0 | United States |
| 52 | Ronald Perelman | United States | 67 | 11.0 | United States |
| 57 | Oleg Deripaska | Russia | 42 | 10.7 | Russia |
| 58 | Vagit Alekperov | Russia | 59 | 10.6 | Russia |
| 59 | Leonardo Del Vecchio | Italy | 74 | 10.5 | Italy |
| 59 | Carl Icahn | United States | 74 | 10.5 | United States |
| 61 | Vladimir Potanin | Russia | 49 | 10.3 | Russia |
| 62 | Philip Knight | United States | 72 | 10.2 | United States |
| 63 | Ricardo Salinas Pliego & family | Mexico | 54 | 10.1 | Mexico |
| 64 | Mohammed Al Amoudi | Saudi Arabia | 65 | 10.0 | Saudi Arabia |
| 64 | Ernesto Bertarelli & family | Switzerland | 44 | 10.0 | Switzerland |
| 64 | Anne Cox Chambers | United States | 90 | 10.0 | United States |
| 64 | George Kaiser | United States | 67 | 10.0 | United States |
| 64 | Hans Rausing | Sweden | 84 | 10.0 | United Kingdom |
| 64 | Joseph Safra | Brazil | 71 | 10.0 | Brazil |
| 70 | Alexei Mordashov | Russia | 44 | 9.9 | Russia |
| 71 | Viktor Rashnikov | Russia | 61 | 9.8 | Russia |
| 72 | German Larrea Mota Velasco & family | Mexico | 56 | 9.7 | Mexico |
| 73 | Sheldon Adelson | United States | 76 | 9.3 | United States |
| 74 | Silvio Berlusconi & family | Italy | 73 | 9.0 | Italy |
| 74 | Dan Duncan | United States | 77 | 9.0 | United States |
| 74 | Kushal Pal Singh | India | 78 | 9.0 | India |
| 77 | Nasser Al-Kharafi & family | Kuwait | 66 | 8.7 | Kuwait |
| 77 | Francois Pinault & family | France | 73 | 8.7 | France |
| 79 | Dmitry Rybolovlev | Russia | 43 | 8.6 | Russia |
| 80 | Iskander Makhmudov | Russia | 46 | 8.5 | Russia |
| 80 | James Simons | United States | 71 | 8.5 | United States |
| 82 | Alberto Bailleres & family | Mexico | 77 | 8.3 | Mexico |
| 83 | German Khan | Russia | 48 | 8.2 | Russia |
| 84 | Eliodoro, Bernardo & Patricia Matte | Chile | NA | 8.1 | Chile |
| 85 | Edward Johnson III | United States | 79 | 8.0 | United States |
| 86 | Kumar Birla | India | 42 | 7.9 | India |
| 87 | Sunil Mittal | India | 52 | 7.8 | India |
| 88 | John Fredriksen | Cyprus | 65 | 7.7 | United Kingdom |
| 89 | Serge Dassault & family | France | 84 | 7.6 | France |
| 89 | Petr Kellner | Czech Republic | 45 | 7.6 | Czech Republic |
| 89 | Ananda Krishnan | Malaysia | 71 | 7.6 | Malaysia |
| 89 | Tadashi Yanai & family | Japan | 61 | 7.6 | Japan |
| 93 | Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber | Saudi Arabia | 51 | 7.5 | Saudi Arabia |
| 93 | Len Blavatnik | United States | 52 | 7.5 | United Kingdom |
| 93 | David & Simon Reuben | United Kingdom | 67 | 7.5 | United Kingdom |
| 93 | Nobutada Saji & family | Japan | 64 | 7.5 | Japan |
| 93 | Alain & Gerard Wertheimer | France | NA | 7.5 | NA |
| 93 | Vladimir Yevtushenkov | Russia | 61 | 7.5 | Russia |
| 99 | August von Finck | Germany | 80 | 7.3 | Switzerland |
| 100 | Lee Kun-Hee | South Korea | 68 | 7.2 | South Korea |