--- title: Bill Gates Is Once Again the Richest Person in the World description: Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder and one of the richest people in history, once again comes out on top, with a net worth of $87.4 billion. authors: - name: Alicia Adamczyk url: https://money.com/author/alicia-adamczyk/ at_money_since: 2015 articles: 201 covers: - Business - Banking - Career Advice - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Personal Finance - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://x.com/aliciaadamczyk former_staff: true published: '2016-01-26T17:49:15.000Z' modified: '2024-04-16T09:48:47.000Z' section: Business tags: - 1% - rich - Wealth word_count: 341 canonical: https://money.com/bill-gates-richest-person-on-earth-2016/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Bill Gates, the co-Founder of the Microsoft company and co-Founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation arrives at the Elysee Palace for a meeting with French President Francois Hollande on June 25, 2015, in Paris, France.](https://img.money.com/2016/01/160126_em_wealthiest.jpg?crop=0px%2C45px%2C2100px%2C1181px&quality=85) *Bill Gates* A fresh list of the wealthiest people in the world is out, and is it any surprise who claimed the number one spot? [Bill Gates](https://money.com/bill-gates-best-career-advice/), Microsoft co-founder and one the richest people in human history, once again comes out on top, with a net worth of $87.4 billion. [Wealth-X](http://www.wealthx.com/home/), a wealth-tracking website, provided *Business Insider* with its newest figures on the assets of the ultra-rich. Wealth-X collects information on more than 110,000 ultra-high-net-worth people, according to BI, tracking each person's assets and adjusting "to account for currency-exchange rates, local taxes, savings rates, investment performance, and other factors." Gates crushes the second place finisher, Spain's Amancio Ortega, by more than *$20 billion*. Ortega, founding chairman of clothing retailer Inditex, is pegged at a net worth of $66.8 billion (though forgive us for not feeling more sympathetic). ***Read next: These Are the 10 Richest Women of All Time*** Other notable placements on the list? Potential presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg ranks as the ninth wealthiest person on earth, with a net worth north of $42 billion. Fellow political billionaire Donald Trump doesn't make the list (sorry, Donald). Alice Walton, Walmart heiress, is the wealthiest woman, ranking #15 overall with a net worth of $33.2 billion. L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt is the next woman on the list, sitting just below Walton at #17 with a net worth of $29 billion. The only other woman to crack the top 50 is Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of the late Steve Jobs, tied at 47th with [$14.4 billion](http://www.wealthx.com/billionaires/laurene-powell-jobs/) to her name. **The 10 Richest People in the World** | Name | Net Worth | | --- | --- | | Bill Gates | $87.4 billion | | Amancio Ortega | $66.8 Billion | | Warren Buffett | $60.7 Billion | | Jeff Bezos | $56.6 Billion | | David Koch | $47.4 Billion | | Charles Koch | $46.8 Billion | | Larry Ellison | $45.3 Billion | | Mark Zuckerberg | $42.8 Billion | | Michael Bloomberg | $42.1 Billion | | Ingvar Kamprad | $39.3 Billion | To make the list, you'd have to have a net worth of at least $14.3 billion. Better luck next year. And don't miss Money's ranking of the richest people of all time (Gates barely makes the list). \[[Business Insider](http://www.businessinsider.com/50-richest-people-on-earth-2016-1)\] ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/bill-gates-richest-person-on-earth-2016/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Business", "item": "https://money.com/business/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Entrepreneurship", "item": "https://money.com/entrepreneurship/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Bill Gates Is Once Again the Richest Person in the World" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/bill-gates-richest-person-on-earth-2016/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/bill-gates-richest-person-on-earth-2016/", "name": "Bill Gates Is Once Again the Richest Person in the World", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2016-01-26T17:49:15.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/bill-gates-richest-person-on-earth-2016/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/bill-gates-richest-person-on-earth-2016/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-04-16T09:48:47.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "Bill Gates Is Once Again the Richest Person in the World", "articleSection": "Business", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2016/01/160126_em_wealthiest.jpg?crop=0px%2C45px%2C2100px%2C1181px&quality=85", "width": 1012, "height": 569, "caption": "160126_EM_wealthiest" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alicia Adamczyk", "url": "https://money.com/author/alicia-adamczyk/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/alicia-adamczyk/#author", "image": "https://img.money.com/2016/01/alicia-headshot-2.jpg?quality=85&w=640&h=640&crop=1", "email": "alicia.adamczyk@moneymail.com", "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/aliciaadamczyk" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2016-01-26T17:49:15.000Z", "description": "Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder and one of the richest people in history, once again comes out on top, with a net worth of $87.4 billion.", "abstract": "Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder and one of the richest people in history, once again comes out on top, with a net worth of $87.4 billion.", "@id": "https://money.com/bill-gates-richest-person-on-earth-2016/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2024-04-16T09:48:47.000Z", "wordCount": 341, "keywords": [ "1%", "rich", "Wealth" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Business", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Entrepreneurship", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneurship" ] } ] } ] } ```