How Much is Bill Gates Worth?

It's an interesting question to ponder. How much money does Bill Gates have?or How much is Bill Gates Worth? The obvious answer is "a bunch," but let's look at how much that actually is. In 2007, Forbes magazine recorded Bill Gates having fifty-six billion dollars. That's six zeros for those who don't know. Now fast forward to 2008 and his net worth has grown to fifty-eight billion. That's an extra two billion or a three and a half percent increase, which is a lot when talking the number of zeros that we are.

What surprising is that Gates isn't even the richest man in the world; that title now belongs to Warren Buffet. You can probably blame the Yahoo.com internet site for that. The Microsoft owner is actually sitting third on Forbes list, down from first last year, which isn't to shabby if you ask me.

For most people, fifty eight billion is a hard number to digest so I'm going to try and put in perspective. If he worked sixteen hours a day, everyday of the year, Bill would make almost nine million per hour. That's more then most people make in their life. He earns about one hundred and sixteen thousand dollars per minute, which turns out to be almost three thousand dollars a second. He makes more in a minute then most people do in a month.

More Interesting Facts:

• The world has a population of about seven billion people. Bill Gates could pay everyone in the world eight dollars and still come out with a few million dollars leftover.
• He could play 232,000,000,000 games of Pacman, or any other arcade game, for twenty five cents a game. If each game lasts ten minutes, Gates would be playing for four hundred and forty thousand years.
• If all of his money was in single dollar bills and were lined up end to end, Gates could travel from Earth to the Moon over seven times.

Now that he's stepped down from being the head of Microsoft day to day operations, it would make sense that Bill will probably fall further down the Forbes list. However, without a doubt Bill Gates is worth a ton of money and will probably stay in the top ten. Now you know exactly how much Bill Gates is worth and can answer your friends when they ask, "how much money does Bill Gates have?"