New Delhi: Savitri Jindal of India has now become the richest woman in Asia. He has left behind Yang Huiyan of China. Huiyan, which controls China’s largest real estate developer Country Garden Holdings, lost $11 billion this year due to the property crisis in China and lagged behind the billionaire index.
Savitri Jindal is the richest woman in India with a net worth of $18 billion. She is the only woman in the top 10 of Forbes’ list of richest Indians in 2021.
Yang Huiyan was Asia’s richest woman for 5 years
It has been a dramatic decline for Yang Huiyan, who has been Asia’s richest woman for the past five years, according to a Bloomberg report, but Savitri Jindal’s net worth has fluctuated wildly in recent years. This fell to $3.2 billion at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in April 2020 and then to $15.6 billion in April 2022.
Who is Savitri Jindal
Jindal (72) is India’s wealthiest woman and the tenth-richest person in the country of 1.4 billion people. After her husband, founder OP Jindal, died in a helicopter crash in 2005, she took over as chairwoman of the Jindal Group. The company is India’s third-largest steel producer and is interested in cement, energy, and infrastructure.
Jindal’s net worth has risen and fallen dramatically in recent years. It fell to $3.2 billion in April 2020, at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, before skyrocketing to $15.6 billion in April 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine, sending commodity prices skyrocketing.
