India's Richest

India emerging economic clout has made it Asia's top spot for billionaires. This year, for the first time in two decades of wealth tracking, we counted more Indian than Japanese billionaires in our annual ranking of the world's wealthiest people. India produced 36 people with 10-figure fortunes, worth a total of $191 billion, versus Japan's 24, who are worth a total of $64 billion. Three Indians even made it to the list of the top 20 of the world's richest. Only the U.S. had more billionaires in the top global ranks.