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Female share of senior and middle management employment

Compare female share of senior and middle management employment across 30 ISO-mapped countries or territories using one fixed 2025 official-source dataset.

Source: World Development Indicators30 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average
35.3% of senior and middle management employment
Median: 37.2% of senior and middle management employment
Countries Covered
30
with available data
Highest
Panama
50.0% of senior and middle management employment
Lowest
Pakistan
9.6% of senior and middle management employment
Top 5 Countries
1Panama50.0% of senior and middle management employment
2Dominican Republic47.8% of senior and middle management employment
3Costa Rica46.2% of senior and middle management employment
4Honduras46.0% of senior and middle management employment
5Ecuador45.3% of senior and middle management employment
By Region
Key Findings
  • Coverage: 30 ISO-mapped countries or territories in 2025.
  • Published range: 9.571 to 50.002 % of senior and middle management employment.
  • Discovery motivation: Google Trends highlighted German employment law and retirement-age debate.

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (9.6% of senior and middle management employment)High (50.0% of senior and middle management employment)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 35.3% of senior and middle management employment)

About This Statistic

The female share of employment in senior and middle management conveys the number of women in management as a percentage of employment in management. Employment in management is defined based on the International Standard Classification of Occupations. This series refers to senior and middle management only, thus excluding junior management (category 1 in both ISCO-08 and ISCO-88 minus category 14 in ISCO-08 and minus category 13 in ISCO-88).

MapTheory retains one fixed reference year and unit. Only finite values mapped to ISO 3166-1 numeric codes are included; aggregates, missing values and non-ISO geographies are excluded. No value is estimated, imputed or carried across years.

Methodology

The female share of employment in senior and middle management conveys the number of women in management as a percentage of employment in management. Employment in management is defined based on the International Standard Classification of Occupations. This series refers to senior and middle management only, thus excluding junior management (category 1 in both ISCO-08 and ISCO-88 minus category 14 in ISCO-08 and minus category 13 in ISCO-88).

Full Data

Rank Country Value
1Panama50.0% of senior and middle management employment
2Dominican Republic47.8% of senior and middle management employment
3Costa Rica46.2% of senior and middle management employment
4Honduras46.0% of senior and middle management employment
5Ecuador45.3% of senior and middle management employment
6United States of America44.1% of senior and middle management employment
7Colombia41.9% of senior and middle management employment
8Russian Federation41.7% of senior and middle management employment
9Poland40.6% of senior and middle management employment
10United Kingdom40.5% of senior and middle management employment
11Singapore39.9% of senior and middle management employment
12Portugal39.4% of senior and middle management employment
13Mexico39.3% of senior and middle management employment
14Brazil38.7% of senior and middle management employment
15Vanuatu37.9% of senior and middle management employment
16The Republic of North Macedonia36.4% of senior and middle management employment
17Austria36.3% of senior and middle management employment
18Greece35.0% of senior and middle management employment
19Thailand34.5% of senior and middle management employment
20Argentina34.1% of senior and middle management employment
21Switzerland33.3% of senior and middle management employment
22Peru32.9% of senior and middle management employment
23Serbia31.9% of senior and middle management employment
24Rwanda30.8% of senior and middle management employment
25Republic of The Gambia28.1% of senior and middle management employment
26Burkina Faso25.9% of senior and middle management employment
27State of Palestine23.5% of senior and middle management employment
28Angola16.2% of senior and middle management employment
29India11.9% of senior and middle management employment
30Pakistan9.6% of senior and middle management employment
Showing 30 of 30 countries

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Data Source

This data comes from World Development Indicators (2025).

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