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Forbes
''Forbes'' () is an American business magazine owned by Integrated Whale Media Investments and the Forbes family. Published eight times a year, it features articles on finance, industry, investing, and marketing topics. ''Forbes'' also r ...
'' magazine annually ranks the world's wealthiest female
billionaires
A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e., a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. The American busin ...
. This list uses the static rating published once a year by Forbes, usually in March. There were 328 women listed on
the world's billionaires , up from 241 in March 2020.
Since 2021,
Francoise Bettencourt Meyers is 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.
2021 list
In January 2021, CEOWORLD Magazine announced that if her family's wealth is included in her total fortune, then
Francoise Bettencourt Meyers's wealth is estimated to stand at $71.4 billion.
The top 10 women billionaires, using the Forbes static ranking , are:
2020 list
The top 10 women billionaires, using the Forbes static ranking , are:
See also
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Forbes list of billionaires
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Forbes' list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women
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The Giving Pledge
References
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Billionaires
A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e., a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. The American busin ...
Female
Female ( symbol: ♀) is the sex of an organism that produces the large non-motile ova (egg cells), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete during sexual reproduction.
A female has larger gametes than a male. Fema ...