Américo Amorim, Belmiro de Azevedo and Alexandre Soares dos Santos are all on the list of the world’s richest people. Eighty-year-old Américo Amorim comes in 369th place with a calculated fortune of 4.4 billion US dollars, dropping from 267th place on last year’s list.
Sonae kingpin Belmiro de Azevedo was ranked 949th, with a worth of two billion dollars and is down from 687th place last year.
Alexandre Soares dos Santos, 80, meanwhile fell from 609th place last year to 1054th position this year with an estimated fortune of 1.6 billion dollars.
On its list of 2015 billionaires, Forbes reveals that “despite plunging oil prices and a weakened euro, the ranks of the world’s wealthiest defied global economic turmoil and expanded yet again.”
For their 29th annual guide to the globe’s richest, Forbes found a record 1,826 billionaires with an aggregate net worth of 7.05 trillion US dollars, up from 6.4 trillion dollars a year ago.
Forbes explained in a statement that the total includes 290 newcomers, 71 of whom hail from China.
Young billionaires are on the rise, it said, and revealed a record 46 among the ranks are under the age of 40.
Bill Gates is once again the richest person on the planet, the list shows, and gives him a title he has held for 16 of the past 21 years.
His fortune grew $3.2 billion since last year to $79.2 billion, despite a gift of 1.5 billion US dollars in Microsoft MSFT +0.07 percent shares to The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in November 2014.
Carlos Slim Helu of Mexico comes in again at No. 2, while revered American investor Warren Buffett took back the No. 3 spot from Spain’s Amancio Ortega (now No. 4); not even the largest IPO in history was enough to beat the Oracle of Omaha this year.
Buffett was the list’s biggest gainer, up 14.5 billion dollars to 72.7 billion dollars, thanks to Berkshire Hathaway’s rising share price.
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg moves up five spots to number 16, his first time ranked among the world’s 20 richest. Mark and three Chinese are among the biggest gainers and appear among the 50 richest on the list.
Zuckerberg is also the leader in a youth revolution that has minted 46 billionaires under the age of 40.
The youngest billionaire on the planet is Evan Spiegel, 24, co-founder of photo-messaging app Snapchat.
California, driven by Silicon Valley tech companies, has spawned 23 new billionaires, including cofounders of car-hailing service Uber, Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp, and their first employee Ryan Graves. Elizabeth Holmes, who runs blood-testing firm Theranos, debuts on the global list as the youngest self-made woman at age 31.
The state now has 131 individuals with 10-figure net worths, more than any country besides China and the United States.