Female Share of Researchers

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

Every column in the newest file of Female Share of Researchers: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2024	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	153	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	153	0
Researchers who are women (% of headcount)female_researchers_shareHeadline	The headline figure: Researchers who are women (% of headcount; 50 = parity).	Number · up to 5 decimals	0.000United States Virgin Islands76.541Myanmarmiddle 38.170	153	0
Reference yearreference_yearReading year	The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.	Year	—	24	0

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. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

One edition, covering 153 countries.

Not in this dataset · 72 places this site covers

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

AfghanistanAmerican SamoaAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaAustraliaBahamasBarbadosBelizeBeninBrazilBritish Virgin IslandsCanadaCayman IslandsChannel IslandsChinaCook IslandsCuraçaoDjiboutiDominicaEquatorial GuineaEritreaFijiFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGrenadaGuamGuinea-BissauGuyanaHaitiHong KongIndiaIsle of ManIsraelKiribatiKosovoLebanonLiberiaMaldivesMarshall IslandsMicronesiaMontserratNew CaledoniaNiueNorth KoreaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauPuerto RicoSaint Kitts and NevisSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSamoaSan MarinoSão Tomé and PríncipeSierra LeoneSint MaartenSolomon IslandsSomaliaSomalilandSouth SudanSurinameTaiwanTimor-LesteTongaTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUnited StatesVanuatuVatican CityYemen

1. 1 · Publisher

   UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)

   databrowser.uis.unesco.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Female Share of Researchers — UIS (readings to 2024)

   indicators

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 26, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   1 file, one per edition

   It downloads as a CSV: female-researchers-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/female-researchers

From the UNESCO Institute for Statistics data API (researchers by headcount, % female), latest available reading per country.