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Firms with Female Participation in Ownership, 2026 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2026; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Firms with Female Participation in Ownership, 2026 compilation covers 181 countries. Guatemala is highest, at 69.950; Qatar is lowest, at 1.273. The middle country reads 35.085. 9 readings are more than ten years older than the file and are listed but not compared.

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Firms with Female Participation in Ownership · Latest available · compiled 2026

HighestGuatemala

69.950

LowestQatar

1.273

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Firms with Female Participation in Ownership, 2026 compilation, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 181 countries · select a heading to sort

Firms with Female Participation in Ownership, 2026 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1MicronesiaFSMMicronesia · 2009 reading, too old to compare86.7782009
2GuatemalaGTMCentral America · 2025 reading69.9502025
3JamaicaJAMCaribbean · 2024 reading66.9112024
4ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2023 reading63.4192023
5ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2023 reading62.4972023
6KiribatiKIRMicronesia · 2025 reading61.5972025
7ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia · 2025 reading61.3002025
8TaiwanTWNEastern Asia · 2024 reading61.2192024
9SeychellesSYCEastern Africa · 2023 reading60.6292023
10IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2023 reading59.3842023
11IcelandISLNorthern Europe · 2024 reading58.7572024
12BahamasBHSCaribbean · 2010 reading, too old to compare58.2902010
13GuyanaGUYSouth America · 2010 reading, too old to compare58.2602010
14New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand · 2023 reading58.2292023
15Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean · 2010 reading, too old to compare57.7532010
16Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa · 2023 reading57.4702023
17BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia · 2025 reading56.8402025
18PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2023 reading56.7372023
19SpainESPSouthern Europe · 2024 reading56.5662024
20Antigua and BarbudaATGCaribbean · 2025 reading56.1562025
21IrelandIRLNorthern Europe · 2024 reading56.0452024
22EcuadorECUSouth America · 2024 reading55.6672024
23El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2023 reading55.5322023
24BrazilBRASouth America · 2025 reading55.4392025
25LesothoLSOSouthern Africa · 2023 reading55.3572023

02In Firms with Female Participation in Ownership, 2026 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline. Readings too old to compare take no part.

Highest

  1. 2Guatemala69.950
  2. 3Jamaica66.911
  3. 4Paraguay63.419
  4. 5Colombia62.497
  5. 6Kiribati61.597

Lowest

  1. 181Qatar1.273
  2. 180Saudi Arabia2.375
  3. 179Kuwait2.840
  4. 178Iraq3.831
  5. 176Pakistan4.941

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 35.085. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

03Caveats

Read before you use

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

The site’s method

  • Readings from many years

    Each country’s newest reading as of 2026, from 2009 to 2026. 9 are more than ten years older than the file: listed and marked, but left out of the ends and the changes.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the better result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 181 countries has every column.

04The 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. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2026). Firms with Female Participation in Ownership, 2026 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/firms-female-ownership/2026

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06Questions

Firms with Female Participation in Ownership, 2026 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest firms with women owners in Firms with Female Participation in Ownership, 2026 compilation?

Guatemala, at 69.950, of the 181 countries in the file.

How many countries does Firms with Female Participation in Ownership, 2026 compilation cover?

181.

Where can I download Firms with Female Participation in Ownership, 2026 compilation?

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

Is Firms with Female Participation in Ownership, 2026 compilation the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-10-03, when it was read from the publisher.

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