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Leading the list are two men who manage to keep getting richer as they give more and more money away. Microsoft founder Bill Gates cliched the tile of the world's richest person for the 13th straight year, beating out friend and fellow philanthropist Warren Buffett, chairperson of Berkshire Hathaway.

The top 20 richest billionaires in the world are - (by name, home country, age, wealth and source of the money):

Bill Gates, Washington, 51, $56bn, Microsoft
Warren Buffett, Nebraska, 76, $52bn, Berkshire Hathaway
Carlos Slim Helu, Mexico, 67, $49bn, telecom
Ingvar Kamprad & family, Sweden, 80, $33bn, Ikea
Lakshmi Mittal, India, 56, $32bn, steel
Sheldon Adelson, Nevada, 73, $26.5bn, casinos, hotels
Bernard Arnault, France, 58, $26bn, Lvmh
Amancio Ortega, Spain, 71, $24bn, Zara
Li Ka-Shing, Hong Kong, 78, $23bn, diversified
David Thomson & family, Canada, 49, $22bn, inheritance
Lawrence Ellison, California, 62, $21.5bn, Oracle
Liliane Bettencourt, France, 84, $20.7bn, L'Oreal
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud, Saudi Arabia, 50, $20.3bn, investments
Mukesh Ambani, India, 49, $20.1bn, petrochemicals
Karl Albrecht, Germany, 87, $20bn, Aldi
Roman Abramovich, Russia, 40, $18.7bn, oil
Stefan Persson, Sweden, 59, $18.4bn, Hennes & Mauritz
Anil Ambani, India, 47, $18.2bn, diversified
Paul Allen, Washington, 54, $18bn, Microsoft, investments
Theo Albrecht, Germany, 84, $17.5bn, Aldi, Trader Joe's

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