Forbes Richest women of the world

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Aug 31, 2015
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Increasing Female Billionaires

Among the total 1826 billionaires of the world, 197 are women. In the year of 2014, there were 172 of them, which show the increased number of 15 females in a year which is very progressive compared to past statistics. This year in total, 11% of total billionaires are woman. Even in the top ten list of the world’s Richest Woman in the World, two of them are women, Christy Walton and Liliane Bettencourt who are in 8th and 10th position respectively. Although most of them might have inherited billionaires with given positions, they have kept their positions maintained and also more number of self-made women billionaires are increasing. With the total combined property of $930 billion, the world's richest females are marching forward in the race on the global economy to be the wealthiest. And that process is increasing with years and expected to increase even more by the end of 2015.

Running Women in top richest Woman’s list

To this year 2015, there are many woman who’ve come and been running in the list of tope richest women in the world. As the scenario of women empowerment has been actively increasing with every day, women are being more powerful and successful in terms of everything including economic statuses. The running list of top richest women is also increasing. So, there is the top ten world’s richest woman list published by Forbes for the year 2015.

The list of the World’s Richest Woman goes as follows:

10. Johanna Quandt (Net worth -$13.9 Billion)

9. Laurene Powell Jobs (Net Worth–$14 billion)

8. Anne Cox Chambers (Net worth – $17 Billion)

7. Abigail Johnson (Net Worth- $17 billion)

6. Susanne Klatte (Net Worth- $17.4 billion)

5. Gina Rinehart (Net Worth $17.7 billion)

4. Jacqueline Mars (Net worth – $26.6 Billion)

3. Alice Walton (Net worth – $39.4 Billion)

2. Liliane Bettencourt (Net worth – $40.1 Billion)

1. Christy Walton (Net worth – $41.7 Billion)

Richest woman in 2015: Christy Walton

According to Forbes, the richest woman of 2015 is Christy Walton. She is the widowed wife of popularly known John Walton-probable heirs of Wal-Mart fortune. Walton, 60 inherited on that fortune after her husband died in a plane crash in 2005. Her net worth is expected to be around $36.7 billion, and that now continues to expand and grow even more mainly due to their high investment in various big companies. She stepped forward to number one position of world’s richest woman over the close competition with L’Oréal heiress Liliane Better court and that just by one billion dollars richer than her. Christy Walton now has the estimated wealth worth of $37.9 billion making her the top ten richest people in the whole world and the wealthiest woman in North America. Walton, basically known as Walton and family in the list, is the founder of world’s largest and most popular retailer that is Wal-Mart. They have more than 8,970 stores across the world and they are among the highest profiting companies of all time.

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