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双语阅读：墨西哥大亨取代盖茨 成世界首富 2010年03月12日10:06英语点津我要评论 0 字号：T|T Worlds mega-rich adding wealth, Carlos Slim No. 1 A combination photo of Carlos Slim, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim is the worlds richest person, Forbes magazine said on Wednesday. Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim is the worlds richest person, knocking Microsoft founder Bill Gates into second spot, as the wealth of the worlds billionaires grew by 50 percent over the last year, Forbes magazine said on Wednesday. It is only the second time since 1995 that Gates has lost the crown, the magazine said, estimating Slims net worth at $53.5 billion, compared to Gatess $53 billion fortune, while investor Warren Buffett came in at No. 3 with $47 billion. The?trioregained $41.5 billion of the $68 billion they had lost the previous year, Forbes said. The number of billionaires around the world has nearly recovered in 2010 after dropping by a third last year during the global financial crisis. There are now 1,011 billionaires, compared with 793 last year and 1,125 in 2008. The net wealth of those billionaires grew to $3.6 trillion from $2.4 trillion last year, but is still down from 2008s $4.4 trillion, according to the 24th annual Forbes list, which took a snapshot of wealth on February 12 to compile its ranking. The average billionaire is now worth $3.5 billion, up $500 million from last year. And the number of women on the list rose to 89 from 72 last year. The global economy is recovering and its reflected in what you see in the list this year, Steve Forbes, chief executive of Forbes, told a news conference. Financial markets have also made an even more impressive comeback from the lows of just about a year ago, particularly in emerging markets. Asia is leading the comeback, Forbes said. The number of billionaires in the Asia-Pacific region grew by 80 percent to 234 and their net worth almost doubled to $729 billion, which the Forbes ranking attributed to the areas swelling stock markets and severa