Richest women in the world, ranked by net worth
According to Bloomberg's Billionaire Index, there are currently no women ranked in the top 10 richest people in the world. Today, the world's richest woman ranks at No. 12, behind the likes of Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett and Larry Page.
Much of the world's wealth depends on a constantly fluctuating stock market; as such, these were the rankings as of September 2020 for the 57 richest women on Earth, ranked by net worth.
55 (TIE). Dannine Avara
Net worth: $5.4 billion
Dannine Avara and her two sisters, Milane and Randa, inherited their billions from their late father, Dan Duncan, who co-founded the Houston-based oil pipeline company Enterprise Products.
55 (TIE). Milane Duncan Frantz
Net worth: $5.4 billion
Milane Duncan Frantz is Dan Duncan's youngest daughter. She serves as a director of the Duncan Family Foundation.
55 (TIE). Randa Duncan Williams
Net worth: $5.4 billion
Another Duncan heiress, Williams served as vice president and then CEO of Enterprise Products from 1994 to 2001.
54. Winnie Johnson-Marquart
Net worth: $5.41 billion
Johnson-Marquart is the American heir to the SC Johnson fortune. Her great-great grandfather founded the household chemical company in 1886. Today, they make products under recognizable brand names like Glade, OFF!, and Raid.
53. Helen Johnson-Leipold
Net worth: $5.53 billion
Johnson-Leipold is Winnie Johnson-Marquart's sister. She has been the chairwoman of Johnson Financial Group — the holding company for the family's insurance and banking operations — since 2004.
52. Shari Arison
Net worth: $5.86 billion
Shari Arison is the owner of Arison Investments, a position she inherited when her father died in 1999. She also inherited a large stake in Carnival Corp., which her father co-founded.
Arison is the wealthiest woman in Israel.
50 (TIE). Katharine Rayner
Net worth: $5.87 billion
Rayner is an American heiress and daughter of the late Anne Cox Chambers, a media tycoon who ran Cox Enterprises from 1974 to 2007.
Cox Enterprises sells telecommunications services, such as high-speed internet, and owns the well-known automotive companies AutoTrader and Kelley Blue Book.
50 (TIE). Margaretta Taylor
Net worth: $5.87 billion
Taylor is Katharine Rayner's older sister. Rayner, Taylor, and their half brother James Cox Taylor each inherited a third of their mother's fortune in 2015.
48 (TIE). Maja Hoffmann
Net worth: $5.91 billion
Hoffman is a Swiss heiress, art collector, filmmaker and philanthropist.
Her great grandfather Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche founded F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, a Swiss pharmaceutical and biotech company.
48 (TIE). Vera Michalski-Hoffmann
Net worth: $5.91 billion
Michalski-Hoffmann, pictured wearing blue, is a publisher and philanthropist. She is Maja Hoffmann's older sister and a significant shareholder in the family's holding company, Roche Holding.
47. Lynn Schusterman
Net worth: $5.94 billion
Schusterman is an active philanthropist in Oklahoma. Along with her late husband Charles, she co-founded the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Foundation to help support of the Jewish community and wider humanitarian efforts in Tulsa.
Charles Schusterman owned one of the country's largest oil and gas exploration and production companies. He died in 2000, leaving much of his wealth to Lynn.
45 (TIE). Sofie Kiaer Kristiansen
Net worth: $6.15 billion
Kristiansen is a Danish heiress and daughter of Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, former president and CEO of The Lego Group.
She sits on the board of The Lego Foundation.
45 (TIE). Ronda Stryker
Net worth: $6.15 billion
Ronda Stryker is an heir to the Stryker Corp. medical equipment manufacturing fortune. Stryker has been a director of the U.S. company for more than 30 years.
44. Ann Walton Kroenke
Net worth: $6.22 billion
Ann Walton Kroenke is an American heir to the Walmart fortune. She owns the Denver Nuggets NBA team.
Her father, the late Bud Walton, left her a portion of his stake in the company when he died in 1995.
43. Taylor Thomson
Net worth: $6.48 billion
Thomson, a Canadian heiress, owns 14% of Woodbridge Company, a privately held investment firm based in Ontario.
42. Tamara Hughes Gustavson
Net worth: $6.51 billion
Tamara Hughes Gustavson's father is the founder and chairman of Public Storage. Gustavson is the company's largest shareholder.
41. Li Haiyan
Net worth: $6.56 billion
Li co-founded the popular Sichuan-style hot-pot chain Haidilao in 1994, with her husband and others. Twenty-six years later, the restaurant has hundreds of locations in 12 countries.
39 (TIE). Tan Siok Tjien
Net worth: $6.62 billion
Tan (not pictured) controls the Indonesian cigarette manufacturer Gudang Garam. The company was founded by her late husband, Susilo Wonowidjojo. He died in 2008.
39 (TIE). Kirsten Rausing
Net worth: $6.62 billion
Swedish-born Rausing owns one-third of Tetra Pak, a Swiss company that revolutionized antiseptic food packaging in the 20th century. She inherited her stake in the company from her late father.
38. Sandra Ortega Mera
Net worth: $6.88 billion
Sandra Ortega Mera's father, Amancio Ortega, founded the retail chain Zara. Mera, who is Spanish, inherited a small, but valuable, share of Zara's parent company when her mother died in 2013.
37. Savitri Jindal
Net worth: $6.99 billion
Savitri Jindal is the richest woman in India.
She married Indian steel and oil magnate O.P. Jindal in 1970. She became the chairperson of the Jindal Group when her husband died in 2005.
But it wasn't just industrial capital that Jindal inherited. She was also elected to her late husband's legislative seat in India's Haryana state. She served in the state legislature from 2005 to 2014.
36. Nancy Walton Laurie
Net worth: $7.04 billion
Nancy Walton Laurie, the daughter of the late Bud Walton, inherited a portion of her father's Walmart stake when he died in 1995.
35. Marie-Helene Habert-Dassault
Net worth: $7.08 billion
Habert-Dassault's father was French billionaire and aerospace tycoon Serge Dassault. She and her three brothers inherited their father's wealth when he died in May 2018.
She served as president of the supervisory board of the family's Dassault Group conglomerate but stepped down in 2019.
34. Zeng Fangqin
Net worth: $7.17 billion
Zeng is the chairwoman of Lingyi Technology, a Chinese manufacturer that supplies internal parts for smartphones, laptops and tablets.
33. Magdalena Martullo-Blocher
Net worth: $8.05 billion
Martullo-Blocher is the CEO of the Swiss chemical manufacturing company Ems-Chemie. She took over the CEO role in 2004 when her father, Christoph Blocher, was elected to the Swiss Federal Council.
32. Antonia Axson Johnson
Net worth: $8.60 billion
Antonia Axson Johnson is the fourth-generation chairperson of her family's company, Swedish retail and service industry giant Axel Johnson AB.
31. Blair Parry-Okeden
Net worth: $8.88 billion
American-born Blair Parry-Okeden inherited 25% of Cox Enterprises when her mother, Barbara Cox Anthony, died in 2007.
30. Fan Hongwei
Net worth: $9.18 billion
Fan is the chairwoman of Hengli Petrochemical Co., a Chinese research and development firm that produces polyester fiber products.
In this photo, an employee answers the phone in the company's lobby.
29. Elizabeth Johnson
Net worth: $9.48 billion
Elizabeth Johnson is the granddaughter of Fidelity Investments founder Edward Johnson II. Her sister, Abigail, is currently the CEO of the company.
28. Christy Walton
Net worth: $10.3 billion
Christy Walton is the American widow of Walmart heir John T. Walton. Walton inherited a fraction of her husband's fortune when he died in a plane crash in 2005.
27. Sherry Brydson
Net worth: $10.4 billion
Sherry Brydson is among Canada's richest people. She is the controlling shareholder of Thomson Reuters Corp. Her grandfather, Roy Thomson, founded the Thomson Corp. in 1934. Brydson also owns Vista Radio and Viking Air.
26. Marian Ilitch
Net worth: $10.6 billion
Marian Ilitch, an American, co-founded Little Caesars Pizza in 1959 with her late husband, Mike Ilitch.
21 (TIE). Denise Coates
Net worth: $10.7 billion
British billionaire businesswoman Denise Coates co-founded the online gambling company Bet365 with her father, Peter Coates, in 2000. The company owns a majority stake in the Stoke City Football Club, a soccer team in Staffordshire, England.
21 (TIE). Valerie Mars
Net worth: $10.7 billion
Valerie Mars is the senior vice president of corporate development at U.S. food company Mars Inc. She is also on the board of directors of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.
21 (TIE). Pamela Mars-Wright
Net worth: $10.7 billion
Pamela Mars-Wright currently serves as the family's ambassador to the Mars Inc. pet-care division.
21 (TIE). Victoria Mars
Net worth: $10.7 billion
Victoria Mars is an heiress to the Mars Inc. fortune. She served as the company's chairperson from 2014 until 2017.
21 (TIE). Marijke Mars
Net worth: $10.7 billion
Marijke Mars and her sisters each inherited an estimated 8% of Mars Inc. when their father died in 2016.
20. Sara Mota de Larrea
Net worth: $12.1 billion
Sara Mota de Larrea is the widow of Jorge Larrea, the founder of mining company Grupo México.
19. Beate Heister
Net worth: $12.1 billion
Beate Heister's father, Karl Albrecht, founded the German discount grocery store chain Aldi.
18. Lu Zhongfang
Net worth: $13.8 billion
Lu co-founded the Chinese training company Offcn with her son, Li Yongxin.
The company, which also owns a hotel in the Eastern Chinese city of Nanjing, offers career training to more than 1 million teachers and public servants.
17. Shu Ping
Net worth: $13.9 billion
Shu Ping was another co-founder of Sichuan-style hot-pot chain Haidilao in 1994. The restaurant's name means "deep sea dredging" in Chinese.
16. Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken
Net worth: $14.0 billion
Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken inherited a 25% controlling stake in Heineken International when her father died in 2002. She is now an executive member of the Dutch company's board of directors.
15. Wu Yajun
Net worth: $15.2 billion
Wu Yajun is the co-founder of Longfor Properties, a Beijing real estate investment company. She currently serves as the company's chairperson.
14. Zhou Qunfei
Net worth: $15.7 billion
Zhou is the chairwoman and founder of major touchscreen manufacturer Lens Technology.
13. Iris Fontbona
Net worth: $16.3 billion
Iris Fontbona inherited her wealth when her husband, Andrónico Luksic Abaroa, died in 2005. Fontbona is the wealthiest person in Chile.
12. Zhong Huijuan
Net worth: $18.9 billion
Zhong Huijuan is the chairwoman of Chinese drug manufacturer Hansoh Pharmaceutical Group. Before getting into the pharmaceutical business, Zhong was a chemistry teacher.
10 (TIE). Susanne Klatten
Net worth: $19.8 billion
Susanne Klatten is a German heiress. Klatten inherited large stakes in many companies — including BMW and pharmaceutical manufacturer Altana — when her father died in 1982.
10 (TIE). Elaine T. Marshall
Net worth: $19.8 billion
Elaine T. Marshall holds an estimated 15% stake in Koch Industries. She inherited the stake when her husband, E. Pierce Marshall, died in 2006.
9. Gina Rinehart
Net worth: $22.3 billion
Gina Rinehart is an Australian mining heiress and chairperson of Hancock Prospecting. Her father, who founded the company, died in 1992.
8. Yang Huiyan
Net worth: $27.8 billion
Yang Huiyan of China is the wealthiest woman in Asia. She received a majority stake in Country Garden Holdings, a real estate development company, from her father in 2007.
7. Abigail Johnson
Net worth: $30.9 billion
Abigail Johnson has served as the CEO of Fidelity Investments since 2014. Her grandfather, Edward C. Johnson II, founded the company in 1946.
6. Laurene Powell Jobs
Net worth: $35.3 billion
Laurene Powell Jobs is the widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In 2004, she founded the Emerson Collective, an LLC that focuses on social justice issues and immigration reform.
5. Jacqueline Mars
Net worth: $43.1 billion
Jacqueline Mars (center) is the daughter of Forrest Mars, Sr., and heiress to the Mars family fortune. She's the aunt of the younger Mars sisters.
4. Julia Flesher Koch
Net worth: $57.5 billion
Julia Flesher Koch was the richest woman in the world from 2019 to 2020. Her husband, chemical engineering magnate and political donor David Koch, died in August of 2019.
3. Alice Walton
Net worth: $63.6 billion
Alice Walton is the daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton. She is an avid art collector and founded Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas.
2. Francoise Bettencourt Meyers
Net worth: $66.8 billion
French L'Oréal heiress Françoise Bettencourt Meyers was the richest woman in the world from 2017 to 2019.
1. MacKenzie Scott
Net worth: $68 billion
MacKenzie Scott, formerly MacKenzie Bezos, joined Twitter on April 4, 2019 to announce that she would retain control of 25% of the former couple's shares in Amazon after her divorce from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
Since then, Amazon's stock values have skyrocketed more than 90%.
She is the 12th-richest person on Earth and the richest woman.