List of female billionaires
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. There were 244 women listed on the world's billionaires as of 18 March 2020[update], up from 234 in March 2020.[1] Since 2020, Alice Walton is listed as the world's wealthiest woman.
According to a 2020 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 billionaire cohort, 58% of billionaires are self-made and 29.6% gained their wealth through a combination of inheritance and self-made wealth.[2]
List
The top 10 women billionaires, using the Forbes static ranking as of 18 March 2020[update], are:[1]
No. | Name | Image | Birth date | Net worth US$ (billions) |
Citizenship | Source | World rank |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Alice Walton | 10 July 1949 | 65.9 | United States | Walmart | 12 | |
2 | Françoise Bettencourt Meyers | 10 July 1953 | 65.4 | France | L'Oréal | 13 | |
4 | MacKenzie Scott | 7 April 1970 | 62.3 | United States | Amazon | 17 | |
5 | Julia Koch | 1 April 1962 | 44.9 | United States | Koch industries | 24 | |
6 | Jacqueline Mars | 10 October 1939 | 28.9 | United States | Mars, Inc. | 38 | |
7 | Yang Huiyan | July 20, 1981 | 27.3 | Cyprus [3] | Country Garden Holdings | 43 | |
8 | Susanne Klatten | 28 April 1962 | 23.9 | Germany | Altana, BMW | 54 | |
9 | Laurene Powell Jobs | 6 November 1963 | 19.9 | United States | Apple Inc., The Walt Disney Company | 67 | |
10 | Zhong Huijuan | (age 59) | 18.8 | China | Hansoh Pharmaceutical | 70 | |
11 | Gina Rinehart | 9 February 1954 | 16.1 | Australia | Hancock Prospecting | 103 |
See also
References
- ^ a b "The top 10 richest women in the world". Forbes. 18 March 2020. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
- ^ Wealth-X Billionaire Census 2020. The census does not define "self-made wealth."
- ^ Taiwan News