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Have you ever wondered who the richest people in the world are? There are some names that everyone seems to already know – like Bill Gates of course although I am surprised he is still number one as I thought he had long since been overtaken, but it’s interesting to see who else is on the ‘rich list’, where they made their money and what country they are from.

I was just looking at a graphic that shows all this information on Visual Economics and was not surprised to see that the majority of the richest come from the USA – of course it makes sense that the worlds richest country would have the worlds richest people in it. There is only one person from the UK on the list – I know we are a little country but I have to say I thought there would be more than that, come on UK, buck up your ideas and try harder next time

I’d love to be rich, who wouldn’t? But the riches some of these people have is just insane, what could anyone ever really do in a lifetime with $40b? You’d need 100 lifetimes!