As they do every year for the last 29 years, Forbes Magazine has released their World’s Billionaires list. The list has a total number of 1,826 individuals, the highest number to date, and includes the usual suspects as well as some new members who made it to the coveted list. Bill Gates tops it again with a net worth of $ 79.5 billion which is attributed to his Microsoft conglomerate. The youngest members are the founders of Snapchat Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy who are 24 and 26 respectively.

Africa was represented too with fifteen men and one woman.

List of African billionaires:

Photo	Rank	Name	Net Worth	Age	Source of Wealth	Country of Citizenship
	#201	Nicky Oppenheimer	$6.7 B	69	Diamonds	South Africa
	#393	Mike Adenuga	$4.2 B	61	Telcom, Oil	Nigeria
	#534	Isabel dos Santos	$3.3 B	41	Investments	Angola
	#577	Issad Rebrab	$3.1 B	71	Food	Algeria
	#577	Naguib Sawiris	$3.1 B	60	Telecom	Egypt
	#847	Patrice Motsepe	$2.2 B	53	Mining	South Africa
	#894	Stephen Saad	$2.1 B	50	Pharmaceuticals	South Africa
	#1054	Onsi Sawiris	$1.8 B	85	Construction, Telecom	Egypt
	#1226	Allan Gray	$1.6 B	77	Investing	South Africa
	#1415	Miloud Chaabi	$1.3 B	86	Diversified	Morocco
	#1500	Mohammed Dewji	$1.3 B	39	Diversified	Tanzania
	#1638	Sudhir Ruparelia	$1.1 B	59	Real estate	Uganda
	#1712	Samih Sawiris	$1.1 B	58	Real estate, Hotels	Egypt
	#1741	Rostam Azizi	$1 B	50	Telecom, Investments	Tanzania
	#1741	Femi Otedola	$1 B	52	Gas stations	Nigeria
	#1741	Abdulsamad Rabiu	$1 B	55	Cement, Sugar, Flour	Nigeria

Table compiled from Forbes list.