Mukesh Ambani, Premji and Shanghvi were among the world’s 50 richest people in 2015; Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, January 29, 2016

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2015, Forbes: India is no.4

India's billionaire population fourth highest

TNN | Mar 3, 2015 The Times of India/ PTI

India's billionaire wealth much above country's fiscal deficit

The number of Indian billionaires has increased to 90 with a total wealth of $294 billion, registering a significant jump over last year when there were 56 billionaires with a collective net worth of $191.5 billion.

NEW YORK: According to the latest Forbes rich list for the year 2015, India is home to the fourth largest number of billionaires across the world. US tops the charts followed by China and Germany.

However, there are only five Indians figuring among the 100 wealthiest across the world.

Registering a significant jump over the last year when there were 56 billionaires with a collective net worth of $191.5 billion, the number of Indian billionaires has increased to 90 with a total wealth of $294 billion.

In comparison, the US has as many as 536 billionaires, followed by 213 from China and 103 from Germany.

Meanwhile, the ranks of the world's wealthiest defied global economic turmoil and expanded yet again despite plunging oil prices and a weakened euro.

Among the BRIC countries India is home to the second largest number of billionaires after China. China had 213 super rich people, worth $565 billion, followed by India (90, $294 billion), Brazil (54, $181 billion) and Russia (88, $337 billion).

Moreover, five Indian women have made it to the Forbes list of the world's billionaires that saw a record number of women this year.

The number of Indian women in this year's list witnessed an increase over last year, when only two Indian women were included on the Forbes billionaire list.

24 Indians with $3.4bn plus

Source: Forbes

The following is a complete list of the 24 Indian citizens who figured in the Forbes list of the 550-odd richest people of the world.

Global rank	Name	Net worth	Age	Source of wealth
039	Mukesh Ambani	$21 B	57	petrochemicals, oil & gas
044	Dilip Shanghvi	$20 B	59	pharmaceuticals
048	Azim Premji	$19.1 B	69	software
066	Shiv Nadar	$14.8 B	69	information technology
082	Lakshmi Mittal	$13.5 B	64	steel
142	Kumar Birla	$9 B	47	commodities
185	Uday Kotak	$7.2 B	55	banking
208	Gautam Adani	$6.6 B	52	commodities, infrastructure
208	Sunil Mittal	$6.6 B	57	telecom
208	Cyrus Poonawalla	$6.6 B	73	vaccines
254	Desh Bandhu Gupta	$5.8 B	77	pharmaceuticals
283	Savitri Jindal	$5.3 B	64	steel
291	Micky Jagtiani	$5.2 B	63	retail
330	Adi Godrej	$4.8 B	72	consumer goods
330	Jamshyd Godrej	$4.8 B	66	consumer goods
360	Shashi & Ravi Ruia	$4.5 B	-	diversified
393	Subhash Chandra	$4.2 B	64	media
405	Benu Gopal Bangur	$4.1 B	83	cement
418	Anil Ambani	$4 B	55	diversified
435	Vikram Lal	$3.9 B	72	motorcycles
435	Pankaj Patel	$3.9 B	61	pharmaceuticals
452	Brijmohan Lall Munjal	$3.8 B	91	motorcycles
512	Mangal Prabhat Lodha	$3.4 B	59	real estate
512	Kushal Pal Singh	$3.4 B	83	real estate

Five women with $1bn+

Rank 283 Savitri Jindal $5.3 B 64 steel

Rank 603 Indu Jain $3 B 78 media

Rank 1312 Anu Aga $1.5 B 72 engineering

Rank 1533 Vinod Gupta $1.2 B 69 electrical equipment

Rank 1741 Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw $1 B 61 biotechnology

Diaspora

This list includes only the obvious names that Indpaedia volunteers could think of. Omitted names can be sent to the Facebook page, Indpaedia.com. They will be cross-checked before publication.

Rank 55 Pallonji Mistry $16.3 B 85 construction Ireland

Rank 69 Hinduja Brothers $14.5 B ? diversified United Kingdom

Rank 341 Sri Prakash Lohia $4.7 B 62 polyester Indonesia

Rich List: India, 2015: Forbes

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2015, Forbes: India is no.4

24 Indians with $3.4bn plus

Five women with $1bn+

Diaspora

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