The Richest Women In The World 2024

Johnathan Parker | January 18, 2018 | 4:10 pm

This year’s list includes 239 women from all around the world, representing a variety of industries like mining, real estate, banking, pharmaceuticals, and more.
But, within this large list of wealthy women, let us look at who made the top ten—the wealthiest among the heiresses and self-made magnates—and what made them deserving of the coveted billionaire title.L’Oreal heiress Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, the world’s richest woman, had the largest dollar gain among women whose fortune is linked to public stocks. Since last March, the stock price of L’Oreal, in which she and her family own a 33 percent interest, has risen about 40%, boosting Bettencourt’s net worth to $24.7 billion. Despite her enormous charity activities during the pandemic, MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, grew wealthier this year.