Net Worth Calculated March 2011

Alhaji Aliko Dangote (born April 10, 1957) is a businessman based in Nigeria. He is the owner of the Dangote Group, which has operations in Nigeria and several other countries in Africa, including Benin, Cameroon, Ghana, South Africa and Zambia.^[3] A wealthy supporter of erstwhile President Olusegun Obasanjo and the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Dangote controls much of Nigeria’s commodities trade through his corporate and political connections. With an estimated current net worth of around US$ 13.8 billion, he was ranked by Forbes as one of the richest African citizens^[4] and richest person of African descent in the world toppling Mohammed Al Amoudi ($12.3 billion) and Oprah Winfrey ($2.7 billion.)^[5]

Aliko Dangote emerges the Richest man. The 53 years old is number 51 on the World’s Richest list. The Nigerian businessman’s fortune surged 557% in the past year, making him the world’s biggest gainer in percentage terms and Africa’s richest individual for the first time. The catalyst was listing Dangote Cement, which integrated his investments across Africa with his previously public Benue Cement; it now accounts for a quarter of the Nigeria Stock Exchange‘s total market cap. Already the continent’s biggest cement maker, he has plants under construction in Zambia, Tanzania, Congo and Ethiopa and is building cement terminals in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast and Liberia, among other places. Dangote, who recently bought himself a $45 million Bombardier aircraft for his birthday, has been shuttling back and forth to London for months, in anticipation of a public offering there later this year.

Rank	Name	Net Worth	Age	Source	Country of Citizenship
1	Carlos Slim Helu & family	$74 B	71	telecom	Mexico
2	Bill Gates	$56 B	55	Microsoft	United States
3	Warren Buffett	$50 B	80	Berkshire Hathaway	United States
4	Bernard Arnault	$41 B	62	LVMH	France
5	Larry Ellison	$39.5 B	66	Oracle	United States
6	Lakshmi Mittal	$31.1 B	60	Steel	India
7	Amancio Ortega	$31 B	75	Zara	Spain
8	Eike Batista	$30 B	54	mining, oil	Brazil
9	Mukesh Ambani	$27 B	53	petrochemicals, oil & gas	India
10	Christy Walton & family	$26.5 B	56	Walmart	United States
11	Li Ka-shing	$26 B	82	Diversified	Hong Kong
12	Karl Albrecht	$25.5 B	91	Aldi	Germany
13	Stefan Persson	$24.5 B	63	H&M	Sweden
14	Vladimir Lisin	$24 B	54	Steel	Russia
15	Liliane Bettencourt	$23.5 B	88	L’Oreal	France
16	Sheldon Adelson	$23.3 B	77	casinos	United States
17	David Thomson & family	$23 B	53	media	Canada
18	Charles Koch	$22 B	75	Diversified	United States
18	David Koch	$22 B	70	Diversified	United States
20	Jim Walton	$21.3 B	63	Walmart	United States
21	Alice Walton	$21.2 B	61	Walmart	United States
22	S. Robson Walton	$21 B	67	Walmart	United States
23	Thomas & Raymond Kwok & family	$20 B	N/A	real estate	Hong Kong
24	Larry Page	$19.8 B	38	Google	United States
24	Sergey Brin	$19.8 B	37	Google	United States
26	Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud	$19.6 B	56	Investments	Saudi Arabia
27	Iris Fontbona & family	$19.2 B	N/A	Mining	Chile
28	Lee Shau Kee	$19 B	83	real estate	Hong Kong
29	Alexei Mordashov	$18.5 B	45	Steel	Russia
30	Michael Bloomberg	$18.1 B	69	Bloomberg	United States
30	Jeff Bezos	$18.1 B	47	Amazon	United States
32	Michele Ferrero & family	$18 B	84	chocolates	Italy
32	Mikhail Prokhorov	$18 B	45	Investments	Russia
34	Vladimir Potanin	$17.8 B	50	nonferrous metals	Russia
35	Alisher Usmanov	$17.7 B	57	steel, telecom, stocks	Russia
36	Azim Premji	$16.8 B	65	Software	India
36	Oleg Deripaska	$16.8 B	43	aluminum	Russia
38	Michael Otto & family	$16.6 B	67	Retail	Germany
39	German Larrea Mota Velasco & family	$16 B	57	Mining	Mexico
39	Rinat Akhmetov	$16 B	44	steel, coal mines	Ukraine
39	John Paulson	$16 B	55	hedge funds	United States
42	Shashi & Ravi Ruia	$15.8 B	67	Diversified	India
43	Mikhail Fridman	$15.1 B	46	oil, banking, telecom	Russia
44	Michael Dell	$14.6 B	46	Dell	United States
44	Susanne Klatten	$14.6 B	48	BMW, pharmaceuticals	Germany
46	Steve Ballmer	$14.5 B	55	Microsoft	United States
46	George Soros	$14.5 B	80	hedge funds	United States
48	Berthold & Theo Jr. Albrecht & family	$14.4 B	N/A	Aldi, Trader Joes	Germany
49	Birgit Rausing & family	$14 B	87	packaging	Sweden
50	Vagit Alekperov	$13.9 B	60	Lukoil	Russia
51	Aliko Dangote	$13.8 B	53	sugar, flour, cement	Nigeria
52	Mark Zuckerberg	$13.5 B	26	Facebook	United States
53	Anne Cox Chambers	$13.4 B	91	Cox Enterprises	United States
53	Roman Abramovich	$13.4 B	44	steel, investments	Russia
55	Jorge Paulo Lemann	$13.3 B	71	beer	Brazil
56	Savitri Jindal & family	$13.2 B	61	Steel	India
57	Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family	$13 B	59	real estate	United Kingdom
57	Paul Allen	$13 B	58	Microsoft, investments	United States
57	Viktor Vekselberg	$13 B	53	oil, metals	Russia
60	Phil Knight	$12.7 B	73	Nike	United States
61	Robert Kuok	$12.5 B	87	Diversified	Malaysia
61	Carl Icahn	$12.5 B	75	leveraged buyouts	United States
63	Mohammed Al Amoudi	$12.3 B	66	oil	Saudi Arabia
64	Donald Bren	$12 B	78	real estate	United States
64	Ronald Perelman	$12 B	68	leveraged buyouts	United States
66	Alberto Bailleres Gonzalez & family	$11.9 B	79	Mining	Mexico
67	Francois Pinault & family	$11.5 B	74	Retail	France
68	Joseph Safra	$11.4 B	72	banking	Brazil
69	Abigail Johnson	$11.3 B	49	Fidelity	United States
70	Viktor Rashnikov	$11.2 B	62	Steel	Russia
71	Leonardo Del Vecchio	$11 B	75	eyewear	Italy
72	John Fredriksen	$10.7 B	66	shipping	Cyprus
72	Stefan Quandt	$10.7 B	44	BMW	Germany
74	James Simons	$10.6 B	72	hedge funds	United States
75	Luis Carlos Sarmiento	$10.5 B	78	banking	Colombia
75	Horst Paulmann & family	$10.5 B	76	Retail	Chile
77	Eliodoro, Bernardo & Patricia Matte	$10.4 B	N/A	paper	Chile
77	Nasser Al-Kharafi & family	$10.4 B	67	construction	Kuwait
79	Sammy Ofer & family	$10.3 B	89	shipping	Israel
80	Len Blavatnik	$10.1 B	53	Access Industries	United States
81	Hans Rausing	$10 B	85	packaging	Sweden
81	Ernesto Bertarelli & family	$10 B	45	biotech	Switzerland
81	John Mars	$10 B	74	candy, pet food	United States
81	Jacqueline Mars	$10 B	71	candy, pet food	United States
81	Forrest Mars	$10 B	79	candy, pet food	United States
81	Klaus-Michael Kuhne	$10 B	73	shipping	Germany
81	Gautam Adani	$10 B	48	commodities, infrastructure	India
88	Iskander Makhmudov	$9.9 B	47	mining, metals, machinery	Russia
89	Johanna Quandt	$9.8 B	84	BMW	Germany
89	George Kaiser	$9.8 B	68	oil & gas, banking	United States
89	Maria-Elisabeth & Georg Schaeffler	$9.8 B	N/A	ball bearings	Germany
92	German Khan	$9.6 B	49	oil, banking, telecom	Russia
93	Ananda Krishnan	$9.5 B	73	telecom	Malaysia
93	Dmitry Rybolovlev	$9.5 B	44	fertilizer	Russia
95	Robin Li	$9.4 B	42	Internet	China
96	Serge Dassault & family	$9.3 B	86	aviation	France
97	Kumar Birla	$9.2 B	43	commodities	India
97	Petr Kellner	$9.2 B	46	insurance	Czech Republic
99	Leonid Mikhelson	$9.1 B	55	Natural gas	Russia
100	Cheng Yu-tung	$9 B	85	real estate	Hong Kong