List of female billionaires
Template:Short description Forbes magazine annually ranks the world's wealthiest female billionaires. This list uses the static rating published once a year by Forbes, usually in March or April. There were 337 women listed on the world's billionaires since 4 April 2023[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., up from 327 in 2022.[1] Since 2021, Françoise Bettencourt Meyers has been listed as the world's wealthiest woman.
According to a 2021 billionaire census, women make up 11.9% of the billionaire cohort, and "just over half of all female billionaires are heiresses, with an additional 30% having a combination of inherited and created wealth." In the overall female billionaire cohort, 16.9% of billionaires are self-made and 53.5% gained their wealth through a combination of inheritance and self-made wealth as of 2017.[2]
2025 list
The top 10 women billionaires, using the Forbes static ranking since 4 April 2023[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., are:[1]
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2022 list
The top 10 women billionaires, using the Forbes static ranking since 5 April 2022[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., are:[3]
2021 list
In January 2021, CEOWORLD Magazine announced that if her family's wealth is included in her total fortune, then Francoise Bettencourt Meyers's wealth is estimated to stand at $71.4 billion.[4]
The top 10 women billionaires, using the Forbes static ranking since 17 March 2021[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., are:[5]
2020 list
The top 10 women billionaires, using the Forbes static ranking since 18 March 2020[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., are:[7]
| No. | Name | Image | Birth date | Net worth Template:US$ (billions) |
Citizenship | Source | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Increase 1 | Alice Walton | File:Alice Walton (cropped).jpg | Script error: No such module "age".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Increase 65.9 | File:Flag of the United States.svg United States | Walmart | Steady 12 |
| Decrease 2 | Françoise Bettencourt Meyers | Script error: No such module "age".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Increase 65.4 | File:Flag of France.svg France | L'Oréal | Steady 13 | |
| Increase 3 | MacKenzie Scott | File:MacKenzie Scott.jpg | Script error: No such module "age".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Increase 62.3 | File:Flag of the United States.svg United States | Amazon | Decrease 17 |
| Increase 4 | Julia Koch | File:Julia Koch.jpg | Script error: No such module "age".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Increase 44.9 | File:Flag of the United States.svg United States | Koch industries | Increase 24 |
| Increase 5 | Jacqueline Mars | Script error: No such module "age".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Increase 28.9 | File:Flag of the United States.svg United States | Mars, Inc. | Increase 38 | |
| Decrease 6 | Yang Huiyan | Script error: No such module "age".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Increase 27.3 | File:Flag of Cyprus.svg Cyprus[6] | Country Garden Holdings | Decrease 43 | |
| Decrease 7 | Susanne Klatten | File:Susanne Klatten 2017.jpg | Script error: No such module "age".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Increase 23.9 | File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany | Altana, BMW | Decrease 54 |
| Decrease 8 | Laurene Powell Jobs | File:Laurene Powell Jobs.jpg | Script error: No such module "age".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Increase 19.9 | File:Flag of the United States.svg United States | Apple Inc., The Walt Disney Company | Decrease 67 |
| Increase 9 | Zhong Huijuan | 1961 (age 64–65)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Increase 18.8 | File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China | Hansoh Pharmaceutical | Increase 70 | |
| Decrease 10 | Gina Rinehart | File:Gina Rinehart June 2015.jpg | Script error: No such module "age".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Increase 16.1 | File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia | Hancock Prospecting | Decrease 103 |
See also
References
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