Richest Women in the World

The richest women in the world - all of whom are billionaires - have been announced.

Wealth X listed the extremely wealthy women in a Wednesday Oct 29,2014 release.

The website determined the most affluent women by net worth in 7 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

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
 

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

In the Middle East, Shari Arison of Israel has a reported net worth of $4.2billion


In Africa, Folorunsho Alakija of Nigeria has an estimated net worth of $1.2billion

 

Yang Huiyan of China, the most affluent woman in the Pacific, is thought to also have a net worth of $6.3billion