As the terms of MacKenzie Bezos' divorce from Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos become public, we're learning more about what assets she will take in the split. As of April 5, 2019, MacKenzie Bezos now has a place on this list of the world's richest women.

Much of the world's wealth depends on a constantly fluctuating stock market; these are the 40 richest women on Earth, according to the 2019 Bloomberg's Billionaire Index.

Nancy Walton Laurie, the daughter of the late Bud Walton, inherited a portion of her father's Walmart stake when he died in 1995.

Net worth: $4.91 billion

Moraes is the co-owner of Brazil's Votorantim Group. Moraes and her brother inherited control of the company when their father died in 2014.

Net worth: $5.08 billion

Ronda Stryker is an heiress to the Stryker Corporation medical equipment manufacturing fortune. Stryker has been a director of the company for more than 30 years.

Net worth: $5.15 billion

Tamara Hughes Gustavson's father is the founder and chairman of Public Storage. Gustavson is the company's largest shareholder.

Net worth: $5.17 billion

Lynn Schusterman's late husband, Charles, founded Samson Resources, one of the country's largest gas production companies. Schusterman sold the company after her husband's death in 2000. 

She is known for her philanthropic work.

Net worth: $5.24 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.

Net worth: $5.34 billion

In 1982, Diane Hendricks and her late husband, Ken, started a construction supply company. Now, Hendricks is the owner of two construction conglomerates that together operate in every area of the building industry.

Net worth: $5.37 billion

Margaretta Taylor is the oldest of Anne Cox Chambers' three children. Like her sister Katharine, Taylor inherited one-third of Chambers' stake in Cox Enterprises.

Net worth: $5.52 billion

Swiss billionaire Margarita Louis-Dreyfus took over as chairperson of the agricultural commodities business Louis Dreyfus when her husband, Robert Louis-Dreyfus, died in 2009.

Net worth: $5.54 billion

Rausing owns one-third of Tetra Pak, a company that revolutionized antiseptic food packaging in the 20th century. She inherited her stake in the company from her late father.

Net worth: $6.02 billion

Vivien Chen took over her father's role as chairperson of Hong Kong's Nan Fung Group in 2009 and served in the post until 2016.

Net worth: $6.43 billion

Sandra Ortega Mera, of Spain, is the daughter of Amancio Ortega, who founded the retail chain Zara. Mera inherited a small-but-valuable share of Zara's parent company when her mother died in 2013.

Net worth: $6.38 billion

In 1982, Antonia Ax:son Johnson, of Sweden, succeeded her father as the fourth-generation chairperson of their family's company, Axel Johnson AB.

Net worth: $6.38 billion

Savitri Jindal is the chairperson emeritus of Jindal Group. She was married to O.P. Jindal, the founder of the company, until his death in 2005.

Jindal also served as an elected official in India's Haryana state from 2005 to 2014.

Net worth: $6.40 billion

Dannine Avara and her siblings inherited their billions from their late father, Dan Duncan, who co-founded the oil pipeline company Enterprise Products.

Net worth: $6.46 billion

Another Duncan heiress, Williams served as vice president then CEO of Enterprise Products from 1994 to 2001.

Net worth: $6.46 billion

Milane Duncan Frantz is the late Dan Duncan's youngest daughter. She serves as a director of the Duncan Family Foundation.

Net worth: $6.48 billion

Marian Ilitch co-founded Little Caesars Pizza in 1959 with her late husband, Mike Ilitch.

Net worth: $6.71 billion

Christy Walton is the 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.

Net worth: $7.23 billion

Sherry Brydson 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.

Net worth: $7.35 billion

Wu Yajun is the co-founder of Longfor Properties, a Beijing real estate investment company. She currently serves as the company's chairperson.

Net worth: $7.93 billion

Blair Parry-Okeden inherited 25 percent of Cox Enterprises when her mother, Barbara Cox Anthony, died in 2007. Parry-Okeden is the cousin of Katharine Rayner and Margaretta Taylor.

Net worth: $8.35 billion

Victoria Mars is an heiress to the Mars, Inc. fortune. She served as the company's chairperson from 2014 until 2017.

Net worth: $8.48 billion

Marijke Mars and her sisters Victoria Mars, Pamela Mars-Wright and Valerie Mars each inherited an estimated 8 percent of Mars Inc. in 2016 when their father died.

Net worth: $8.48 billion

Pamela Mars-Wright currently serves as the family's ambassador to the Mars Inc. pet care division.

Net worth: $8.48 billion

Valerie Mars is the senior vice president of corporate development at Mars Inc. She is also on the board of directors of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.

Net worth: $8.48 billion

Beate Heister's father, Karl Albrecht, founded the discount grocery store chain Aldi.

Net worth: $9.45 billion

Sara Mota de Larrea is the widow of Jorge Larrea, the founder of mining company Grupo México.

Net worth: $9.63 billion

Abigail Johnson has served as the CEO of Fidelity Investments since 2014. Her grandfather, Edward C. Johnson II, founded the company in 1946.

Net worth $12.3 billion

Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken inherited a 25 percent controlling stake in Heineken International when her father died in 2002. She is now an executive member of the company's board of directors.

Net worth: $14.2 billion

Iris Fontbona inherited her wealth when her husband, Andrónico Luksic Abaroa, died in 2005. Fontbona is the wealthiest person in Chile. 

Net worth: $15.1 billion

Elaine T. Marshall holds an estimated 15 percent stake in Koch Industries. She inherited the stake when her husband, E. Pierce Marshall died in 2006.

Net worth: $15.1 billion

Gina Rinehart is an Australian mining heiress and chairperson of Hancock Prospecting. Her father, Lang Hancock, who founded Hancock Prospecting, died in 1992.

Net worth: $15.5 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.

Net worth: $18.3 billion

Yang Huiyan 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.

Net worth: $19.2 billion

Susanne Klatten is a German heiress. When her father died in 1982, Klatten inherited large stakes in many companies including BMW and pharmaceutical manufacturer Altana.

Net worth: $20.4 billion

MacKenzie Bezos joined Twitter on April 4, 2019 to announce that she would retain control of 25 percent of the former couple's shares in Amazon after their divorce.

Net worth: $36.5 billion

Jacqueline Mars is the daughter of Forrest Mars, Sr., and heiress to the Mars family fortune. She's the aunt of the younger Mars sisters.

Net worth: $34.0 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.

Net worth: $44.1 billion

L'Oréal heiress Françoise Bettencourt Meyers became the richest woman in the world when her mother, Liliane Bettencourt, died in 2017. According to Forbes, Bettencourt had a net worth of approximately $44.7 billion when she died.

Net worth: $47.2 billion