Despite the fact that the global economy is at the hardest time, over than half of the 234 women who belong to the list of the richest women worldwide according to Forbes, made millions in less than a year. This year, 234 women were on the list, up from 244 last year. As a group, the women on the list make a total of $927.4 billion. Despite the recent economic instability, they are collective $29.4 billion richer than last year. Here are the top 10 richest women in the world. Their net income was calculated on April 13, 2020.
- Alice Walton
Net worth: $54.1 billion
Country: United States
Source: WALMART
The only daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton has been named the world’s richest woman this year after losing the title to L’Oréal’s heiress Francoise Bettencourt Meyers in 2019. Despite the recent market turmoil, Walton saw its revenue grow 23% since last year. Walton is leading a program at the Walton Family Foundation that will provide $ 300 million in bonds to help charter schools invest and renovate facilities.
- Francoise Bettencourt Meyers
Net worth: $53.5 billion
Country: France
Source: L’Oreal
The granddaughter of L’Oréal founder Eugène Schueller took over the reins of L’Oreal in 2017, after Liliane Bettencourt’s mother, then the richest woman in the world died at the age of 94. Bettencourt Meyers’ revenue fell $ 400 million last year as its shares fell 12% in the first two weeks of March. In March, the company announced that its plants would begin manufacturing hand sanitizers to support the needs of French and European health authorities.
- Julia Koch
Net worth: $43.2 billion
Country: United States
Source: KOCH Industries
A new member on this year’s list, Koch joined the billionaires after she and her three children inherited 42% of Koch Industries from her husband David, who died in August 2019 at the age of 79. In the 1980s, she also worked as an assistant to fashion designer Adolfo. - Mackenzie Bezos
Net worth: $40.1 billion
Country: United States
Source: Amazon
Bezos debuted on the list after her divorce from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in July 2019. The award-winning author received a quarter of her ex-husband’s shares. MacKenzie has signed on to donate half of its assets to Giving Pledge, a non-profit organization for the financially disadvantaged.
- Jacqueline Mars
Net worth: $27.3 billion
Country: United States
Source: Sweets (candies), Feeding animals
Mars and her brother, John, have inherited a third of the $ 35 billion candy company – where the world-famous M & Ms and Milky Way are produced. This company also has a large feed business. Jacqueline Mars worked for the company for almost 20 years, until 2016. - Yang Huiyan
Net worth: $24 billion
Country: China
Source: Real Estate
The 38-year-old owns 57% and is on the board of the Country Garden, which was founded in Hong Kong and was founded by her father. In response to the coronation pandemic, the company set up robotic, automated food service stations in Wuhan (where the virus began) to feed Chinese doctors.
- Susanne Klatten
Net worth: $19.3 billion
Country: Germany
Source: BMW, Pharmaceuticals
A heiress to BMW, Klatten has seen its net income fall 24% in the first half of March due to the pandemic. Klatten is also the sole owner and vice president of Altana, a pharmaceutical and special chemical company. - Laurene Powell Jobs
Net worth: $17.5 billion
Country: United States
Source: APPLE, DISNEY
The widow of Apple founder Steve Jobs (died 2011), Powell Jobs, head of Emerson Collective, a hybrid philanthropic and investment company founded in 2004. Speaking of her fortune, Powell Jobs told New York Times in February: “I’m not interested in legacy wealth buildings, and my children k
- Zhong Huijuan
Net worth: $15.2 billion
Country: China
Source: Pharmaceuticals
Zhong has taken over the Chinese pharmaceutical company Hansoh Pharmaceutical, which produces many types of drugs. Revenue rose 10 percent from early January to mid-March, when the coronaire was more widespread in his homeland. Zhong is married to Sun Piaoyang, the president of the billionaire Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine. - Gina Rinehart
Net worth: $14.1 billion
Country: Australia
Source: Mines
Rinehart, Australia’s richest man, has built her fortune on iron ore. The daughter of iron ore miner Lang Hancock has been chairman of the mining team and the Hancock Prospecting Group since 1992. Rinehart’s revenue fell $ 2 billion last year as the pandemic plunged its revenue into the iron industry.
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