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 a record of 256 women listed on the world's billionaires as of 6 March 2018[update].[1] In March 2017, there were 227 female women billionaires, up from 187 in June 2015.[2] Since Liliane Bettencourt died in 2017, her only child and heiress, Françoise Bettencourt Meyers has become listed by some sources as the world's wealthiest female.[3]
The top 10 women billionaires, using the Forbes static ranking as of 7 March 2018[update] are:[1]
| No. | Name | Image | Birth date | Net worth US$ (billions) |
Citizenship | Source | World Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 1
|
Françoise Bettencourt Meyers | 7 October 1949 | 46.5
|
 France
|
L'Oréal | 14
| |
 2
|
Alice Walton | .jpg)
|
10 July 1953 | 41.5
|
 United States
|
Walmart | 19
|
| 3
|
Susanne Klatten | 28 April 1962 | 25.0
|
 Germany
|
Altana, BMW | 32
| |
 4
|
Jacqueline Mars | 
|
10 October 1939 | 23.6
|
United States
|
Mars, Inc. | 34
|
| 5
|
Yang Huiyan |
|
1981 (age 42–43) | 21.9
|
 China, People's Republic of
|
Country Garden Holdings | 43
|
| 6
|
Laurene Powell Jobs | 
|
6 November 1963 | 18.8
|
United States
|
Apple Inc., The Walt Disney Company | 58
|
| 7
|
Gina Rinehart | 
|
9 February 1954 | 17.4
|
 Australia
|
Hancock Prospecting | 80
|
| 8
|
Iris Fontbona |
|
1942 or 1943 (age 81–82) | 16.3
|
 Chile
|
Antofagasta PLC | 80
|
| 9
|
Abigail Johnson | 
|
19 December 1961 | 15.9
|
United States
|
Fidelity Investments | 83
|
| 10
|
Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken |
|
30 June 1954 | 15.8
|
 Netherlands
|
Heineken International | 86
|
See also
References
- ^ a b "The World's Billionaires List". Forbes. 6 March 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
- ^ The World's Billionaires List, Forbes, Retrieved 28 June 2016.
- ^ "The Richest People in the World". Money. Retrieved 8 January 2018.