Bill Gates vs Carlos Slim: how much does the fortune of the creator of Windows exceed that of the Mexican magnate

Carlos Slim and Bill Gates have been in the ranking of the richest people in the world for several decades.

Bill Gates He is one of the most famous and rich businessmen in the world. According to the latest list of the American magazine specializing in financial issues Forbesthe American billionaire currently has a fortune amounting to USD 129 billionwhich makes it the fourth richest person on the planetsurpassed only by Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bernard Arnault.

Gates’ fortune stems from microsoft, a technology company co-founded by him. Bill even got to being considered the richest person in the world on several occasions. Since the mid-1990s, and for 13 consecutive years, the Microsoft co-founder he was the richest person in the world. It first became number one on the list of Forbes in 1995, with a fortune of $12.5 billion. A day like today, August 24, of that year, was launched on the market, in the United States, the Windows 95 operating system, by Microsoft. In that place he remained, with his wealth increasing, until 2008, when Warren Buffett surpassed him.

In 2009 it took the first position again, however, in 2010 he was ousted again, nothing more and nothing less than by the Mexican Carlos Slim, who was in that position from 2010 to 2013. In 2014 he would occupy the first position again, with a fortune, according to Forbesof $76 billion. He remained in that position until 2018, when he was ousted by Jeff Bezos, owner of Amazon.

In 2021 and 2022 Gates has been ranked 4 among the wealthiest people on the planet.

Bill Gates is currently the fourth richest person in the world. (Getty Images)
Bill Gates is currently the fourth richest person in the world. (Getty Images)

As previously mentioned, Carlos Slim has been the only Mexican who has become the richest person in the world, since Forbes started with that rankingin the late 1980s. For that very reason, He has been the only Mexican to unseat Bill Gates from first place on the list.

And it is that in 2010, Slim managed to accumulate a fortune of USD 53 thousand 500 millionwhile Gates accumulated $500 million less, or $53 billion. In this way and according to the figures reported by the financial magazine, since 1994 for the first time the title of the richest man in the world did not fall on a billionaire from the United States.

In 2013, Gates took the crown from Slim and took, again, the first position. Gates remained in that place until 2018, but not Slim, who over the years has been falling in the list of the richest in the world. Last year, in 2021, Slim dropped to position 15, however, this 2022 managed to recover a couple of places and reached the 13th place.

Bill Gates has remained in the top 5 of the richest in the world, currently occupying position 4.

Slim's current fortune is USD 81.2 billion, while Bill Gates's is USD 129 billion.
Slim’s current fortune is USD 81.2 billion, while Bill Gates’s is USD 129 billion.

The Mexican tycoon currently has a fortune amounting to USD 81 thousand 200 millionwhile the fortune of Bill Gates, according to the latest Forbes ranking, amounts to USD 129 billion. This means that The fortune of the American businessman and tycoon exceeds that of Carlos Slim, who is of Lebanese descent, by USD 47.8 billion.

This amount of money is even higher than the estimated fortune of the Mexican businessman German Larrea Mota Velascowho is considered the second richest person in Mexico, only behind Slim, since he has USD 30 thousand 850 million according to Forbes.

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Bill Gates vs Carlos Slim: how much does the fortune of the creator of Windows exceed that of the Mexican magnate