The richest women in the world - all of whom are billionaires - have been announced by Wealth-X on Wednesday in published list of the extremely wealthy women in the world.
Wealth-x determined the most affluent women by net worth in seven regions - North America, Europe, Pacific, Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa - then ranked those women against one another.
Wealth-X found that the richest woman in the world, as well as in North America, is Christy Walton of Walmart, reporting her estimated net worth is $37.9billion.
Next up is Europe's wealthiest woman and L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt of France, with an estimated $31.3billion net worth, according to the website.
Followed by mining heiress Gina Reinhart of Australia took the title of most affluent woman in the Pacific, with an estimated net worth of $14.8billion, Wealth-X reported (Pictured 3rd).
For Latin America, it was a three-way tie between Mexican sisters Vanessa Paola Slim Hajj, Maria Soumaya Slim de Romero, and Johanna Slim Ayub, who are thought to possess a net worth of $6.3billion individually, the website found (Pictured 4th).
Rich: Folorunsho Alakija, left, of Nigeria has an estimated net worth of $1.2billion, (pictured 5th) and Yang Huiyan, right, is thought to have a net worth of $6.3billion (pictured 6th).
The recently published Wealth-X and UBS Billionaire Census 2014 shows that there are 286 female billionaires, accounting for 12.3% of the total global billionaire population of 2,325. The average age of female billionaires is 61 years old. The female billionaire population controls 12.8% of the world’s total billionaire wealth of US$7.3 trillion.
Credit: Wealth X
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