Bill Gates has regained his position as the richest person in the world for the first time in two years.
The Microsoft co-founder has found himself at the top of the charts after Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' vast wealth got a little smaller.
On Friday the Bloomberg Billionaire Index reported that Gates was worth a staggering $110 billion (£85 billion.)
The 64-year-old's rise to the top was in part helped by the Pentagon signing a $10 billion contract with Microsoft for cloud computing services.
While Gates only owns roughly 1% of the company he helped build, that is thought to be worth around $7.3 billion.
The fact the Pentagon chose Microsoft over Bezos's company Amazon caused the online retailers' value to tumble by 2%.
The stock market drop cause the 55-year-old's total wealth to come in at a paltry $108.7 billion.
Bezos fortune took another pummeling recently when he divorced ex-wife MacKenzie, with the 49-year-old receiving a quarter of his Amazon holdings as part of the settlement.
Gates would have been firmly at the top of the billionaire tree had he not given away such a large chunk of his wealth.
Since 1994 he has donated more than $35 billion through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Behind Bezos in third on the richlist is Frenchman Bernard Arnault , chairman and CEO of Moët Hennessy – Louis Vuitton.
He has a cool $15billion more than Berkshire Hathway's Warren Buffet in fourth and $30billion more than Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in fifth.
The top ten richest people in the world - all of whom are men - have a collective fortune of $787.8billion.
That equates to more than $100 for every person on Earth.
