5 Billionaires Surprisingly Richer Than An Entire Nation

2. Carlos Slim Helu

Total Wealth: $68.8  Billion

Carlos is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of telecommunications companies Telmex and America Movil. The richest person in the world from 2010 to 2013, he was pushed to the second position this year, by Bill Gates, owing to a steep decline in the share price of his mining company Minera Frisco. Besides, Forbes also considers him as one of the world’s most powerful people. Moreover, Carlos has stakes in various real estate, finance and infrastructure development companies. He was declared the World's Biggest Givers after he donated $4 billion to his foundation in 2011. His net worth is $74 billion, which is more when compared to Cuba’s GDP in 2012 that’s around $68.23 billion. The Cuban state adheres to socialist principles in organizing its largely state-controlled planned economy and they are major producers of mineral resources like nickel.

3. Warren Buffet

Total Wealth: $63.3 Billion

There is no need of any introduction for the king of the stock market, Warren Buffet, who is the most remarkable investor of the twentieth century. He is the Chairman and the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway that operates a very broad collection of businesses. The businesses includes, Insurance (Geico), Manufacturing (Clayton Homes), Energy (MidAmerican Energy, Lubrizol) and Service (NetJets) also one of the largest shareholders.

Being born to an affluent family, Buffet built his own business without depending on his family’s fortune. He initially started off his business carrier by selling chewing gums, Coca-Cola and newspapers and entered into stock market at the age of 11 and there’s no looking behind since then. A consistent top holder in the list of world’s wealthiest people made a net worth of $12.7 billion in 2013. Today Buffet’s current net worth is more than Uzbekistan’s GDP in 2012 that’s around $51.1 billion. Uzbekistan is considered having the fourth largest gold deposits in the world and the country mines around 80 tons of gold annually.

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