Berikut senarai 20 orang terkaya di dunia 2009yang dikeluarkan Majalah Forbes hari ini:
1. Bill Gates (AS$40 bilion - Microsoft - Amerika Syarikat)
2. Warren Buffett (AS$37 bilion - Berkshire Hathaway - AS)
3. Carlos Slim dan keluarga (AS$35 bilion - Telecoms - Mexico)
4. Lawrence Ellison (AS$22.5 bilion) - Oracle - AS)
5. Ingvar Kamprad dan keluarga (AS$22 bilion - Ikea - Sweden)
6. Karl Albrecht (AS$21.5 bilion) - Aldi - Jerman)
7. Mukesh Ambani (AS$19.5 bilion) - petrokamia - India)
8. Lakshmi Mittal (AS$19.3 bilion) - besi - India
9. Theo Albrecht (AS$18.8 bilion) - Aldi - Trader Joe's - Jerman
10. Amancio Ortega (AS$18.3 bilion) - Zara - Sepanyol)
11. Jim Walton (AS$17.8 bilion) - Wal-Mart, AS)
12. Alice Walton (AS$17.6 bilion) - Wal-Mart - AS)
13. Christy Walton dan keluarga (AS$17.6 bilion) - Wal-Mart, AS)
14. S. Robson Walton (AS$17.6 bilion) - Wal-Mart AS)
15. Bernard Arnault (AS$16.5 bilion) - LVMH - Perancis.
16. Li Ka-shing (AS$16.2 bilion) - Hong Kong.
17. Michael Bloomberg (AS$16 bilion) - Bloomberg, AS)
18. Stefan Persson (AS$14.5 bilion) - Hennes and Mauritz, Sweden)
19. Charles Koch, AS$14 bilion - pembuatan, tenaga - AS)
20 David Koch (AS$14 bilion) - pembuatan, tenaga - AS)