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		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

• Forbes list of billionaires
• Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women
• The Giving Pledge

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