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World's Wealthiest Women: Wealth-X

These Are The Richest Women In The World
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The richest women may span the globe, but two of them come from the same family: the Waltons.

Two of the Walmart heirs capture spots one and and three on Wealth-X’s list of the world’s richest women. Valued at $29.8 and $28.2 billion respectively, the two women are part of a family that’s worth the same amount as the bottom 30 percent of Americans, according to an analysis from a labor economist at the University of California-Berkeley.

Other super-wealthy women that made Wealth-X’s cut include Australian mining mogul Gina Rinehart, valued at $29.1 billion, and French socialite Liliane Bettencourt, who is valued at $24 billion.

Though she hasn’t made the list yet, Sara Blakely may be poised to crack the rankings in a few decades. Blakely became the youngest female billionaire this year at 41, thanks to her wildly successful Spanx shapewear businesses.

Here are the world's wealthiest women, according to Wealth-X:

The World's Wealthiest Women
5. Birgit Rausing (01 of05)
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Rausing, who inherited her father-in-law's Swiss packaging company when her husband died in 2000, is worth an estimated $13.8 billion, according to Wealth-X. (credit:AP)
4. Liliane Bettencourt(02 of05)
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Bettencourt owns 31 percent of L'Oreal cosmetics, according to Bloomberg. Europe's wealthiest woman is worth $24 billion, according to Wealth-X. (credit:Getty)
3. Christy Walton(03 of05)
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Walton inherited her share of the Walmart fortune after the passing of her husband John and is currently worth $28.2 billion, according to Wealth-X. In addition to her Walmart stake, Walton netted big bucks from a smart bet her husband made on First Solar, according to Forbes. (credit:YouTube)
2. Gina Rinehart(04 of05)
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Judged by some indexes to be the world's richest woman, Rinehart made her billions as daughter of an Australian mining magnate. She's worth $29.1 billion, according to Wealth-X. (credit:YouTube)
1. Alice Walton(05 of05)
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Walton was able to push her way to the top of the list at $29.8 billion thanks to Walmart stock trading at a 12-year high, according to Wealth-X. The daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton established an art museum in Bentonville, Arkansas, the town that's home to Walmart's (credit:AP)

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