According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Bill Gates has topped the list of the world’s wealthiest individuals. The co-founder of Microsoft has been named the world’s richest person several times and was topping the list from 1997 to 2005. Then he slid from the first place, but later gained his leading positions once again.
Analysts at Bloomberg report that net worth of the richest person alive exceeded whopping 90 billion dollars! Gross domestic product of several countries gives way to Gates’ fortune. For example: GDP of Turkmenistan ($88.6B), GDP of Jordan ($82.7B), GDP of Lithuania ($82.4B), GDP of Latvia ($49.1B), and some other states. In the rating by GDP, the net worth of Bill Gates would take 84th place among 190 countries after Croatia, which GDP amounted to 91.1 billion dollars in 2015, according to the International Monetary Fund.
