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Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, 2017

2017, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, 2017 covers 88 countries. São Tomé and Príncipe is highest, at 70.97; Afghanistan is lowest, at 4.26. The middle country reads 30.67. Against 2016, 68 values changed (30 up, 38 down), 20 countries joined, 14 left.

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Female Share of Senior and Middle Management · Data for 2017

HighestSão Tomé and Príncipe

70.97

LowestAfghanistan

4.26

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, 2017, as published. ILO ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 88 countries · select a heading to sort

Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, 2017: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa70.97
2JordanJORWestern Asia63.30
3Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean51.34
4BelarusBLREastern Europe47.60
5LatviaLVANorthern Europe45.00
6ChileCHLSouth America43.07
7SamoaWSMPolynesia42.99
8SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe41.89
9BulgariaBGREastern Europe41.78
10Costa RicaCRICentral America41.43
11HondurasHNDCentral America41.04
12United StatesUSANorthern America40.53
13MongoliaMNGEastern Asia40.01
14SwedenSWENorthern Europe39.45
15RussiaRUSEastern Europe39.38
16PolandPOLEastern Europe38.19
17LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe37.92
18BrazilBRASouth America37.66
19HungaryHUNEastern Europe37.64
20MexicoMEXCentral America37.28
21BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia36.97
22TuvaluTUVPolynesia36.70
23RwandaRWAEastern Africa36.30
24NorwayNORNorthern Europe35.86
25EcuadorECUSouth America35.31

02In 2017

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Lowest

  1. 88Afghanistan4.26
  2. 87Egypt6.37
  3. 86Bangladesh11.48
  4. 85United Arab Emirates12.17
  5. 84Japan12.78

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 30.67. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032016 → 2017

Since 2016

What changed between 2016 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +20 / −14countries joined / left
  • 68values changed, of 68 in both
  • 30 · 38rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ 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

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored
  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from ILO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 2017.

  • The position is ours

    ILO publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 88 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: 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.

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

International Labour Organization (ILO) (2017). Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, 2017 [data set], describing 2017. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/female-managers/2017

0610 held

Other years

07Questions

Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, 2017: questions and answers

Which country has the highest women in management in Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, 2017?

São Tomé and Príncipe, at 70.97, of the 88 countries in the file.

What year does Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, 2017 describe?

2017.

How many countries does Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, 2017 cover?

88.

Where can I download Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, 2017?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, 2017 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, 2024.

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