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List of female billionaires

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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 , up from 327 in 2022. From 2021 to 2024 Françoise Bettencourt Meyers was 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.

2025

The top 10 women billionaires, using the Forbes static ranking , are:

No.	Name	Image	Birth date	Net worth
(billions)	Citizenship	Source	World
rank
1	Alice Walton	[[File:Alice Walton (cropped).jpg	80px]]		101	United States	Walmart	15
2	Françoise Bettencourt Meyers			81.6	France	L'Oréal	20
3	Julia Koch	[[File:Julia Koch.jpg	80px]]		74.2	United States	Koch industries	21
4	Jacqueline Mars			42.6	United States	Mars, Inc.	33
5	Rafaela Aponte-Diamant			37.7	Italy / Switzerland	Mediterranean Shipping Company	44
6	Savitri Jindal			35.5	India	Jindal Group	48
7	Abigail Johnson	[[File:Abigail Johnson at Village Global (cropped).jpg	80px]]		32.7	United States	Fidelity Investments	55
8	Miriam Adelson	[[File:Miriam Adelson June 2019.jpg	80px]]		32.1	Israel / United States	Las Vegas Sands	56
9	Marilyn Simons			31	United States	Renaissance Technologies	57
10	Melinda French Gates	[[File:Melinda Gates 2014.jpg	80px]]		30.4	United States	Microsoft	58

2024

The top 10 women billionaires, using the Forbes static ranking , are:

No.	Name	Image	Birth date	Net worth
(billions)	Citizenship	Source	World
rank
1	Françoise Bettencourt Meyers			99.5	France	L'Oréal	15
2	Alice Walton	[[File:Alice Walton (cropped).jpg	80px]]		72.3	United States	Walmart	21
3	Julia Koch	[[File:Julia Koch.jpg	80px]]		64.3	United States	Koch industries	23
4	Jacqueline Mars			38.5	United States	Mars, Inc.	35
5	MacKenzie Scott	[[File:MacKenzie Scott.jpg	80px]]		35.6	United States	Amazon.com	43
6	Savitri Jindal			33.5	India	Jindal Group	46
7	Rafaela Aponte-Diamant			33.1	Italy / Switzerland	Mediterranean Shipping Company	48
8	Miriam Adelson	[[File:Miriam Adelson June 2019.jpg	80px]]		32	Israel / United States	Las Vegas Sands	53
9	Gina Rinehart	[[File:Gina Rinehart June 2015.jpg	80px]]		30.8	Australia	Hancock Prospecting	56
10	Abigail Johnson	[[File:Abigail Johnson at Village Global (cropped).jpg	80px]]		29	United States	Fidelity Investments	58

2023

The top 10 women billionaires, using the Forbes static ranking , are:

No.	Name	Image	Birth date	Net worth
(billions)	Citizenship	Source	World
rank
1	Françoise Bettencourt Meyers			74.8	France	L'Oréal	11
2	Julia Koch	[[File:Julia Koch.jpg	80px]]		59	United States	Koch industries	17
3	Alice Walton	[[File:Alice Walton (cropped).jpg	80px]]		56.7	United States	Walmart	21
4	Jacqueline Mars			38.3	United States	Mars, Inc.	31
5	Miriam Adelson	[[File:Miriam Adelson June 2019.jpg	80px]]		35	Israel / United States	Las Vegas Sands	35
6	Rafaela Aponte-Diamant			31.2	Italy	Mediterranean Shipping Company	43
7	Susanne Klatten	[[File:Susanne Klatten 2017.jpg	80px]]		27.4	Germany	Altana, BMW	51
8	Gina Rinehart	[[File:Gina Rinehart June 2015.jpg	80px]]		27	Australia	Hancock Prospecting	52
9	MacKenzie Scott	[[File:MacKenzie Scott.jpg	80px]]		24.4	United States	Amazon.com	60
10	Iris Fontbona			23.1	Chile	Antofagasta plc	65

2022

The top 10 women billionaires, using the Forbes static ranking , are:

No.	Name	Image	Birth date	Net worth
(billions)	Citizenship	Source	World
rank
1	Françoise Bettencourt Meyers			74.8	France	L'Oréal	14
2	Alice Walton	[[File:Alice Walton (cropped).jpg	80px]]		65.3	United States	Walmart	18
3	Julia Koch	[[File:Julia Koch.jpg	80px]]		60	United States	Koch industries	21
4	MacKenzie Scott	[[File:MacKenzie Scott.jpg	80px]]		43.6	United States	Amazon.com	30
5	Jacqueline Mars			31.7	United States	Mars, Inc.	41
6	Gina Rinehart	[[File:Gina Rinehart June 2015.jpg	80px]]		30.2	Australia	Hancock Prospecting	46
7	Miriam Adelson	[[File:Miriam Adelson June 2019.jpg	80px]]		27.5	Israel / United States	Las Vegas Sands	50
8	Susanne Klatten	[[File:Susanne Klatten 2017.jpg	80px]]		24.3	Germany	Altana, BMW	56
9	Iris Fontbona			22.8	United States	Antofagasta plc	67
10	Abigail Johnson	[[File:Abigail Johnson at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center on April 24, 2012.jpg	80px]]		21.2	United States	Fidelity Investments	75

2021

The top 10 women billionaires, using the Forbes static ranking , are:

No.	Name	Image	Birth date	Net worth
(billions)	Citizenship	Source	World
rank
1	Françoise Bettencourt Meyers			73.6	France	L'Oréal	12
2	Alice Walton	[[File:Alice Walton (cropped).jpg	80px]]		61.8	United States	Walmart	17
3	MacKenzie Scott	[[File:MacKenzie Scott.jpg	80px]]		53	United States	Amazon.com	22
4	Julia Koch	[[File:Julia Koch.jpg	80px]]		46.4	United States	Koch industries	27
5	Miriam Adelson	[[File:Miriam Adelson June 2019.jpg	80px]]		38.2	Israel / United States	Las Vegas Sands	36
6	Jacqueline Mars			31.3	United States	Mars, Inc.	48
7	Yang Huiyan			29.6	Cyprus	Country Garden Holdings	50
8	Susanne Klatten	[[File:Susanne Klatten 2017.jpg	80px]]		27.7	Germany	Altana, BMW	53
9	Gina Rinehart	[[File:Gina Rinehart June 2015.jpg	80px]]		23.6	Australia	Hancock Prospecting	70
10	Iris Fontbona			23.5	Chile	Antofagasta plc	74

2020

The top 10 women billionaires, using the Forbes static ranking , are:

No.	Name	Image	Birth date	Net worth
(billions)	Citizenship	Source	World
rank
1	Alice Walton	[[File:Alice Walton (cropped).jpg	80px]]		65.9	United States	Walmart	12
2	Françoise Bettencourt Meyers			65.4	France	L'Oréal	13
3	MacKenzie Scott	[[File:MacKenzie Scott.jpg	80px]]		62.3	United States	Amazon	17
4	Julia Koch	[[File:Julia Koch.jpg	80px]]		44.9	United States	Koch industries	24
5	Jacqueline Mars			28.9	United States	Mars, Inc.	38
6	Yang Huiyan			27.3	Cyprus	Country Garden Holdings	43
7	Susanne Klatten	[[File:Susanne Klatten 2017.jpg	80px]]		23.9	Germany	Altana, BMW	54
8	Laurene Powell Jobs	[[File:Laurene Powell Jobs.jpg	80px]]		19.9	United States	Apple Inc., The Walt Disney Company	67
9	Zhong Huijuan			18.8	China	Hansoh Pharmaceutical	70
10	Gina Rinehart	[[File:Gina Rinehart June 2015.jpg	80px]]		16.1	Australia	Hancock Prospecting	103

References

Brinded, Lianna. (2018-05-18). "There are more female billionaires in the world, mostly thanks to inheritance".
Goldenberg, Julie. (2025-04-01). "The Richest Women In The World 2025".
Kroontje, Samantha. (2024-04-02). "The Richest Women In The World 2024".
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