Top 10 wealthiest self made women in world 2025 Forbes’ list: In the contemporary globe, ladies are setting pace in business enterprise like never before. The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor reports that more than 658 million women are founders and owners of businesses all over the world.
According to Forbes, the proportion of self-made women in the world billionaire club rose almost to 50 per cent, now standing at 3.5 per cent. They have a total net worth of 276 billion dollars, and each one averages at 5.5 billion, 158 billion higher than in 2017.
Never has it been a better time to be a female business owner- at least statistically. Entrepreneurship among women The world now has an estimated 658 million female entrepreneurs and business owners compared to 772 million male ones, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. Almost two thirds of the same are early stage entrepreneurs as opposed to under half of the male fellows.
According to Amanda Elam who developed the recent Women Entrepreneurship Report on behalf of GEM the number one policy solution to issues such as health deficit and education deficit is women entrepreneurship.
The kind of businesses that women engage in are even located [where it is fun to live in]. It turns out that companies like building their operations in such place as that. There has been this awakening in international development so there is that feeling.
Because of this cohorts successes and list of hurdles, Forbes on our part does this first-ever global ranking of the world richest 50 self made women. All of these sky-raisers-more wealthy than most of the presidents of the world-in occupations as varied as collagen to coal-are citizens of 13 countries and four continents (there are thus far none of either continent of Africa or South America). In total, they amount to 276billion, averagely 5.5 billion.
It is also 10 billion dollars less than the peak value of the top 50 in 2021 but 158 million dollars higher than it was in 2017, the first year Forbes regularly counted that many self made women.
Second is Diane Hendricks of the United States of America, an estimated net worth of 22.3 billion $, who co-founded ABC Supply, a giant building and roofing materials manufacturer.
China, with its communist neighbor Hong Kong, is 18 women in the top 50. The richest among them is a former chemistry teacher Zhong Huijuan who started Hansoh Pharmaceuticals in 1995. It was in 1999 that she developed a breakthrough lung cancer drug that earned her name around the world.
The youngest is Australia-based Melanie Perkins at 38 years old who is famous due to co-founding Canva, a renowned firm that produces design software in 2013.
Top 10 Richest Self-Made Women in the World 2025:
| Rank | Name | Net Worth | Country | Industry | Company |
| 1 | Rafaela Aponte-Diamant | $38.8B | Switzerland | Shipping | Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) |
| 2 | Diane Hendricks | $22.3B | United States | Building supplies | ABC Supply |
| 3 | Zhong Huijuan | $15.6B | China | Pharmaceuticals | Hansoh Pharmaceutical |
| 4 | Zhou Qunfei | $10B | Hong Kong | Smartphone screens | Lens Technology |
| 5 | Denise Coates | $8.5B | United Kingdom | Online gambling | Bet365 |
| 6 | Judy Faulkner | $7.8B | United States | Healthcare software | Epic Systems |
| 7 | Wang Laichun | $7.2B | Hong Kong | Electronics components | Luxshare Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (Luxshare-ICT) |
| 8 | Marian Ilitch & family | $6.9B | United States | Little Caesars Pizza | Ilitch Holdings (Little Caesars Pizza, Detroit Red Wings, Detroit Tigers, etc.) |
| 9 | Ling Tang | $6.6B | Canada | Marketing software, mobile games | AppLovin |
| 10 | Lynda Resnick | $6.3B | United States | Agriculture | The Wonderful Company |
Source: Forbes’ 50 Richest Self-Made Women on Earth 2025
The Wealthiest Self-Made Women in India-2025
Falguni Nayar, a former investment banker nicknamed guju girl of Indian descent, who made a fortune of estimated US$3.4B is the founder of Nykaa, beauty products retailer, started in 2012, and is ranked #31 on the richest self-made women of the globe list in 2025. Nayar made Nykaa go public in 2021 in the process of becoming the richest self-made female entrepreneur in India.
Next behind her at #32 is Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, one of the richest self-made women of India who started a biopharmaceutical company Biocon way back in 1978 and is worth 3.3B.
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