Forbes list of billionaires (2005)

This list of billionaires is based on the annual ranking of the world's wealthiest people compiled and published by Forbes magazine on March 10, 2005. The listed net worth represents the estimated value of assets less debt as of February 11, 2005. There were 691 officially known billionaires in the world as of 2005.

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  1st - Bill Gates - U.S.

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  2nd - Warren Buffett - U.S.

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  3rd - Lakshmi Mittal - India

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  6th - Ingvar Kamprad - Sweden

Top 15 billionaires

#	Name	Nationality	Net Worth
1	Bill Gates	United States	$46.5 billion
2	Warren Buffett	United States	$44.0 billion
3	Lakshmi Mittal	India	$25.0 billion
4	Carlos Slim Helú	Mexico	$23.8 billion
5	Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud	Saudi Arabia	$23.7 billion
6	Ingvar Kamprad	Sweden	$23.0 billion
7	Paul Allen	United States	$21.0 billion
8	Karl Albrecht	Germany	$18.5 billion
9	Larry Ellison	United States	$18.4 billion
10	S. Robson Walton	United States	$18.3 billion
11	Jim Walton	United States	$18.2 billion
12	Alice Walton	United States	$18.0 billion
13	Helen Walton	United States	$18.0 billion
14	Lord Thomson of Fleet and family	Canada	$17.9 billion
15	Liliane Bettencourt	France	$17.2 billion

Other lists

• Sunday Times Rich List
• List of Canadians by net worth
• List of Danes by net worth
• List of Dutch by net worth
• French Rich List
• Korean rich list
• List of heads of government and state by net worth
• List of Singaporeans by net worth
• List of Swedes by net worth
• List of Turks by net worth
• Business oligarch, for New Russian billionaries

External links

• Forbes: The World's Billionaires