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The number of people on Forbes' list climbed to 1,210 billionaires, setting a record with combined wealth of $4.5 trillion, up from $3.6 trillion a year ago.
While the biggest slice of that wealth, $1.5 trillion, is controlled by people in the US, the publication said more than half of the new billionaires came from Brazil, Russia, India and China.
A look at Indians who made it to the list, the youngest and oldest billionaires, and other interesting facts...
Image: The two richest Americans in the world - Warren Buffett (the sage of Omaha) and his good friend Bill Gates.
Text: Agencies
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