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Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, 2020

2020, as ILO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, 2020 covers 90 countries. Costa Rica is highest, at 62.090; Afghanistan is lowest, at 5.889. The middle country reads 35.009. Against 2019, 82 values changed (54 up, 28 down), 8 countries joined, 13 left.

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Female Share of Senior and Middle Management · Data for 2020

HighestCosta Rica

62.090

LowestAfghanistan

5.889

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, 2020, 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 90 countries · select a heading to sort

Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, 2020: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).
derived
1Costa RicaCRICentral America62.090
2JordanJORWestern Asia60.247
3BotswanaBWASouthern Africa56.677
4LatviaLVANorthern Europe52.203
5GuyanaGUYSouth America52.014
6El SalvadorSLVCentral America48.820
7BelarusBLREastern Europe47.754
8Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean47.621
9MongoliaMNGEastern Asia46.618
10PalauPLWMicronesia45.455
11RussiaRUSEastern Europe43.157
12UkraineUKREastern Europe43.099
13SwedenSWENorthern Europe43.094
14KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia42.524
15United StatesUSANorthern America42.288
16BulgariaBGREastern Europe42.005
17Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean41.572
18PolandPOLEastern Europe41.404
19MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia40.969
20KiribatiKIRMicronesia40.905
21FinlandFINNorthern Europe40.816
22SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe40.616
23SeychellesSYCEastern Africa40.002
24UruguayURYSouth America39.883
25MexicoMEXCentral America39.716

02In 2020

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Costa Rica62.090
  2. 2Jordan60.247
  3. 3Botswana56.677
  4. 4Latvia52.203
  5. 5Guyana52.014

Lowest

  1. 90Afghanistan5.889
  2. 89Pakistan6.695
  3. 88Angola7.546
  4. 87Japan13.061
  5. 86India17.328

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 35.009. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032019 → 2020

Since 2019

What changed between 2019 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +8 / −13countries joined / left
  • 82values changed, of 82 in both
  • 54 · 28rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ 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

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 2020.

  • 89 distinct values among 90

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 34.946. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 90 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) (2020). Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, 2020 [data set], describing 2020. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/female-managers/2020

0610 held

Other years

07Questions

Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, 2020: questions and answers

Which country has the highest women in management in Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, 2020?

Costa Rica, at 62.090, of the 90 countries in the file.

What year does Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, 2020 describe?

2020.

How many countries does Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, 2020 cover?

90.

Where can I download Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, 2020?

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, 2020 the newest?

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

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