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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 as of 4 April 2023[update], up from 327 in 2022.[1] Since 2021, Françoise Bettencourt Meyers has been 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.[2]
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2023 list
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The top 10 women billionaires, using the Forbes static ranking as of 4 April 2023[update], are:[1]
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2022 list
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The top 10 women billionaires, using the Forbes static ranking as of 5 April 2022[update], are:[3]
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2021 list
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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.[4]
The top 10 women billionaires, using the Forbes static ranking as of 17 March 2021[update], are:[5]
2020 list
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The top 10 women billionaires, using the Forbes static ranking as of 18 March 2020[update], are:[7]
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