The Richest Women In The World 2025 I Forbes

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Women remain woefully underrepresented on Forbes’ World’s Billionaires list. But their numbers are increasing—slowly. This year, 406 of the planet’s 3,028 billionaires are women, good for 13.4% of the list. That’s up a hair from 369 in 2024, or 13.3%.  Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/juliegoldenberg/2025/04/01/the-richest-women-in-the-world-2025/  Subscribe to FORBES: https://www.youtube.com/user/Forbes?sub_confirmation=1  Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including breaking news, groundbreaking in-depth reported stories, daily digests and more. Plus, members get a front-row seat at members-only events with leading thinkers and doers, access to premium video that can help you get ahead, an ad-light experience, early access to select products including NFT drops and more:  https://account.forbes.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=growth_non-sub_paid_subscribe_ytdescript  Stay Connected Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes:  http://forbes.com  Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success.

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00:00Women remain woefully underrepresented on Forbes' world's billionaires list,

00:04but their numbers are slowly increasing.

00:07This year, 406 of the planet's 3,028 billionaires are women,

00:12good for 13.4% of the list. That's up a hair from 13.3% in 2024.

00:19The richest woman of all is Walmart heir Alice Walton,

00:22whose fortune stands at an estimated $101 billion.

00:26She reclaims a title from French L'Oreal heiress Francois Benicourt-Meyers,

00:31who now ranks second, at $81.6 billion.

00:35Benicourt-Meyers and Walton have battled for the number one spot among women for the past half

00:40decade. In June, Benicourt-Meyers made history as the first woman to hit an estimated net worth

00:46of $100 billion. By early September, Walton had returned to the prime spot,

00:51amid a jump in Walmart shares and drop in L'Oreal's.

00:56Julia Koch, the widow of industrialist David Koch, and Jacqueline Mars,

01:00an heir to the Mars confectionary fortune, remain the third and fourth richest women.

01:05In all, nine of the 10 wealthiest women on the list inherited their fortunes.

01:09The richest self-made woman is Raffaella Aponte-Diamant, the Swiss co-founder of the

01:14world's largest shipping line, whose net worth is $37.7 billion. She ranks as the

01:20fifth wealthiest woman of all, and one of just 113 self-made women on the list.

01:26Others include Oprah Winfrey and Taylor Swift, whose fortune rose 45% over the past year,

01:32as her heiress tour raked in an estimated $2 billion, making it the highest-grossing

01:37tour of all time. Two women lost their spot among the top 10 women. Australian mining

01:43magnate Gina Reinhart, whose net worth fell nearly 5% amid weak iron ore prices.

01:49And Mackenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, who continues to give big donations to philanthropic

01:55causes. They were replaced by Melinda French-Gates, ex-wife of Bill Gates, and newcomer Marilyn

02:01Simons, the widow of hedge fund legend Jim Simons, who died in May 2024. Other newcomers include

02:08pharmaceutical billionaire Martine Rothblatt, who founded the multibillion-dollar company

02:12United Therapeutics, and Tatiana Volodina, who owns the billion-dollar Russian cosmetics retailer

02:18L'Etoile.

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