India climbs back to third spot in billionaires list
Written by : SMTV24x7 | Sat, Mar 03, 2018, 01:27 PM
New Delhi, Mar 03: With 31 new Indians on the list, India comes third after China and USA on Hurun's Global Rich List 2018. However, China with 819 names and USA with 571 are way ahead in terms of number of billionaires.
In this regard, Hurun Report's Global Rich List 2018 that came out on Wednesday shows India as the country with the third-largest number of billionaires, behind only China and the US and ahead of countries like the United Kingdom, Germany and Russia.
Industrialist Mukesh Ambani remains India's richest person with a sharp surge of 30 per cent in his net worth to $26 billion, pushing his global rank to 21st on a worldwide rich list topped by Bill Gates. The list ranked 2,694 billionaires from 68 countries and from 2,157 companies in another record-breaking year for the world’s billionaires.