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India now has 23 billionaires, up from 13 a year ago, Forbes magazine said on Thursday. Non-resident Indian Lakshmi Mittal however dropped two places to find the fifth spot among the world's richest. Interestingly only three of them are based on software or technology. The combined net worth of the Indian billionaires comes to $99 billion. This exceeded the net worth of Japan's 27 billionaires, estimated at $67 billion to create the largest concentration of wealth in Asia.
The collective net worth of 40 richest persons in India is $106 billion. To be included in the Forbes list, an Indian has to have a net worth of $590 million.
The following are the list of Indian billionaires:
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Ranking: | Name: | Age: | Net worth: | Industry |
| 5. | Lakshmi Mittal, | 55, | $23.5b | Steel |
| 25. | Azim Premji, | 60, | $13.3b | Software |
| 56. | Mukesh Ambani, | 48, | $8.5b | Petrochemicals |
| 104. | Anil Ambani, | 46, | $5.7b | Diversified | |
| 114. | Kushal Pal Singh,
| 74, | $5b | Real estate |
| 125. | Sunil Mittal, | 48, | $4.9b | Telecom |
| 140. | Kumar Birla, | 38, | $4.4b | Commodities |
| 168. | Shiv Nadar, | 60, | $4b | Technology |
| 185. | Pallonji
Mistry, | 76, | $3.6b | Construction |
| 207. | Anurag Dikshit,
| 34, | $3.3b | Online
gambling |
| 245. | Anil Agarwal, | 52, | $2.8b | Mining,
metals |
| 245. | Ravi and Shashi
Ruia, | | $2.8b | Diversified |
| 278. | Adi Godrej and family,
| 63, | $2.6b | Diversified |
| 317. | Indu Jain, | 69, | $2.4b | Media |
| 317. | Dilip Shanghvi, | 50, | $2.4b | Pharmaceuticals |
| 512. | Naresh Goyal, | 56, | $1.5b | Aviation |
| 562. | Baba Kalyani, | 57, | $1.4b | Engineering |
| 562. | Tulsi Tanti, | 48, | $1.4b | Wind energy |
| 645. | N.R. Narayana Murthy,
| 59, | $1.2b | Software |
| 698. | Uday Kotak, | 47, | $1.1b | Banking |
| 746. | Subhash Chandra,
| 55, | $1b | Media |
| 746. | Habil Khorakiwala,
| 63, | $1b | Pharmaceuticals |
| 746. | Vijay Mallya, | 50, | $1b | Liquor |
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