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 or April. There were 337 women listed on the world's billionaires as of 2023, 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 as of 2025, are:| No. | Name | Image | Birth date | Net worth | Citizenship | Source | World rank | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Alice Walton | 101 | United Statesincreasedecreasebirth date and age|1953|07|10|df=ydecrease2024The top 10 women billionaires, using the Forbes static ranking as of 2024, are:
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