Dataset · ILO

Female Share of Senior and Middle Management

10 years, 2014–2024 · 86 countries

This is SDG indicator 5.5.2: the share of senior and middle management posts held by women. Where female labour force participation asks whether women are in the labour market at all, this asks whether they reach the top of it.

This site holds every year from 2014 to 2024, read from ILO’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Newest: Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, 2024
Held: 10 years · 890 rows
Licence: CC BY 4.0

10years held
2014–2024years
890rows across every year
86countries in the newest147 across every year
1measure
CC BY 4.0licence

0110 years

Every year

Every year comes from ILO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.

2014bar height: countries covered, up to 952024

Every year of Female Share of Senior and Middle Management held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
Year	Countries	Change	Read	Download
Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, 2024Newest	86	+8 −14	September 6, 2026	CSV
Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, 2023	92	+11 −14	September 6, 2026	CSV
Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, 2022	95	+16 −15	September 6, 2026	CSV
Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, 2021	94	+15 −11	September 6, 2026	CSV
Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, 2020	90	+8 −13	September 6, 2026	CSV
Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, 2019	95	+19 −8	September 6, 2026	CSV
Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, 2018	84	+11 −15	September 6, 2026	CSV
Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, 2017	88	+20 −14	September 6, 2026	CSV
Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, 2016	82	+13 −15	September 6, 2026	CSV
Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, 2014	84	—	September 6, 2026	CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: female-managers-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

023 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Female Share of Senior and Middle Management: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2024	Distinct
Country`country`Name	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	86
ISO Code`country_code`Identifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	86
Women in senior and middle management (% of managers)`female_managers`Headline	The headline figure: Women in senior and middle management (% of managers).	Number · up to 3 decimals	7.226Bangladesh56.692Naurumiddle 35.861	86

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.

03147 countries across every year

Who is covered

How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions

Countries in each year of Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, by continent.
	2014	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Africa	9	9	12	9	13	10	13	16	13	16
Americas	15	14	14	15	18	16	16	17	19	17
Asia	20	18	22	20	22	22	23	21	20	15
Europe	36	37	37	38	38	38	38	37	37	35
Oceania	4	4	3	2	4	4	4	4	3	3
All	84	82	88	84	95	90	94	95	92	86

Who joined and who left

2024
+ Fiji+ Gabon+ Lesotho+ Malawi+ Nigeria+ Nauru+ Palestine+ Tanzania− Bahamas− Gambia− Grenada− Indonesia− Iceland− Jordan− Japan− Kyrgyzstan− Cambodia− Kiribati− Philippines− Slovakia− Eswatini− Tonga
2023
+ Bahamas+ Gambia+ Grenada+ Indonesia+ Jordan+ Cambodia+ Kiribati+ Panama+ Eswatini+ Seychelles+ Tonga− United Arab Emirates− Benin− Chile− Guinea-Bissau− Laos− Madagascar− Mali− Mozambique− Papua New Guinea− Palestine− Sudan− Timor-Leste− Tuvalu− Samoa
2022
+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Bangladesh+ Chile+ Guinea-Bissau+ Honduras+ Laos+ Madagascar+ Mali+ Mozambique+ Peru+ Papua New Guinea+ Sudan+ Senegal+ Tuvalu+ Samoa− Ethiopia− Grenada− Guyana− Iraq− Jordan− Kenya− Cambodia− Marshall Islands− Nauru− Pakistan− Eswatini− Tonga− Tunisia− Uganda− Ukraine
2021
+ Barbados+ Ethiopia+ Guatemala+ Iraq+ Kenya+ Marshall Islands+ Mauritius+ Nauru+ Singapore+ Eswatini+ Timor-Leste+ Tonga+ Tunisia+ Uganda+ Zimbabwe− Afghanistan− Burundi− Chile− DR Congo− Honduras− Kiribati− Myanmar− Palau− Seychelles− Tanzania− Vanuatu
2020
+ Afghanistan+ United Arab Emirates+ Burundi+ Chile+ DR Congo+ Palau+ Rwanda+ Tanzania− Bahamas− Barbados− Guatemala− Kenya− Lebanon− Lesotho− Maldives− Marshall Islands− Senegal− Somalia− Tunisia− Uganda− Zimbabwe
2019
+ Angola+ Bahamas+ Barbados+ Botswana+ Kenya+ Cambodia+ Kiribati+ Lebanon+ Lesotho+ Maldives+ Marshall Islands+ Senegal+ Somalia+ Seychelles+ Trinidad and Tobago+ Tunisia+ Uganda+ Vanuatu+ Zimbabwe− United Arab Emirates− Burkina Faso− Guinea-Bissau− Mauritius− Namibia− Rwanda− Sierra Leone− Tonga
2018
+ Burkina Faso+ Bhutan+ Guinea-Bissau+ Grenada+ Guyana+ India+ Namibia+ Pakistan+ Sierra Leone+ Tonga+ Ukraine− Afghanistan− Bangladesh− Chile− Côte d’Ivoire− Ghana− Cambodia− Laos− Liberia− Niger− Nepal− São Tomé and Príncipe− Togo− Tuvalu− Uganda− Samoa
2017
+ Afghanistan+ United Arab Emirates+ Argentina+ Bangladesh+ Brunei+ Chile+ Costa Rica+ Ghana+ Jordan+ Laos+ Liberia+ Myanmar+ Niger+ Nepal+ Rwanda+ São Tomé and Príncipe+ Togo+ Uganda+ Samoa+ Zambia− Belize− Barbados− DR Congo− Fiji− Maldives− Namibia− Pakistan− Senegal− Suriname− Eswatini− Seychelles− Tajikistan− Timor-Leste− Tonga

Not in this dataset · 78 places this site covers

ILO gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method

1 · Publisher
International Labour Organization (ILO)
ilostat.ilo.org
2 · Their file
Female Share of Senior and Middle Management 2024
SL.EMP.SMGT.FE.ZS
3 · Read by this site
September 6, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
4 · Stored as
10 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as female-managers-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
/statistics/female-managers

Precision

The headline is stored to 3 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

From the ILO’s SDG database via the World Bank’s indicator API (SL.EMP.SMGT.FE.ZS).

05Reuse

Licence and credit

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Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 7, 2026

CC BY 4.0

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Adapt it and build on it
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Say what you changed

Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

A credit line

Source: International Labour Organization (ILO), Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

International Labour Organization (ILO). Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, 2014–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/female-managers

The publisher’s own citation: International Labour Organization. Labour Market-related SDG Indicators database (ILOSDG). Geneva: ILOSTAT.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Questions