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, 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, are:[1]

No. Name Image Birth date Net worth US$
(billions)		 Citizenship Source World
rank
1 Alice Walton (1949-07-10) 10 July 1949 65.9  United States Walmart 12
2 Françoise Bettencourt Meyers (1953-07-10) 10 July 1953 65.4  France L'Oréal 13
4 MacKenzie Scott (1970-04-07) 7 April 1970 62.3  United States Amazon 17
5 Julia Koch (1962-04-01) 1 April 1962 44.9  United States Koch industries 24
6 Jacqueline Mars (1939-10-10) 10 October 1939 28.9  United States Mars, Inc. 38
7 Yang Huiyan (1981-07-20) July 20, 1981 27.3  Cyprus [3] Country Garden Holdings 43
8 Susanne Klatten (1962-04-28) 28 April 1962 23.9  Germany Altana, BMW 54
9 Laurene Powell Jobs (1963-11-06) 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 (1954-02-09) 9 February 1954 16.1  Australia Hancock Prospecting 103

See also

References
  1. "The top 10 richest women in the world". Forbes. 18 March 2020. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
  2. Wealth-X Billionaire Census 2020. The census does not define "self-made wealth."
  3. Taiwan News
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