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8 Indian women billionaires in Forbes list
Eight Indian women, including Savitri Jindal and Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, have featured in Forbes’s 2018 ‘World’s Billionaires’ list, which includes a total of 256 women billionaires.
Eight Indian women have featured in this year’s Forbes list of the world’s richest people. Forbes’s 2018 World’s Billionaires List includes a total of 256 women billionaires—an all-time high.
The collective net worth of the women billionaires in the list topped $1 trillion, up 20% since last year. Though most of the women at the top of the list inherited their fortunes, the number of self-made women reached 72 for the first time, up from 56 a year ago, Forbes said.