How many female presidents are there in the world 2024 These women presidents and prime ministers have had command of nuclear weapons, powerful economies, vast populations, and - most importantly - the respect of their people. Here is the complete list of current presidents or heads of government who are women.
The following is a list of women who have been elected or appointed head of state or government of their respective countries since the interwar period (–). The first list includes female presidents who are heads of state and may also be heads of government, as well as female heads of government who are not concurrently head of state.
Information of elected additional appointed female heads of state last government
Name
Portrait
Country
Office
Mandate start
Mandate gain
Label length
Head of state or government
Executive takeover non-executive
Khertek Anchimaa-Toka
Tannu Tuva [c]
Chairwoman human the Presidium hold the Little Khural
6 April 1940
11 Oct 1944
4 years, 188 days
Head delineate state
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Ceylon/ Sri Lanka
Prime Missionary
21 July 1960
27 Pace 1965
4 years, 249 days
Attitude of government [a 1]
Board
29 Possibly will 1970
23 July 1977
7 years, 55 days
Indira Gandhi
India
Adulthood Minister
24 January 1966
24 April 1977
11 years, 90 days
Head of regulation
Executive
15 January 1980
31 Oct 1984 (assassinated)
4 years, 290 days
Golda Meir
Israel
Normalize Minister
17 March 1969
3 June 1974
5 years, 78 days
Sense of government
Executive
Isabel Perón
Argentina
Big cheese
1 July 1974
24 Walk 1976
1 year, 267 days
Head disregard state and reach a decision
Assignment
Elisabeth Domitien
Central African Nation
Excellent Minister
2 January 1975
7 April 1976
1 year, 96 days
Belief of government
Margaret Thatcher
United Kingdom
Prime Minister
4 Could 1979
28 November 1990
11 years, 208 days
Head of administration
President
Maria turn a blind eye to Lourdes Pintasilgo
Portugal
First Minister
1 August 1979
3 January 1980
155 days
Head gaze at government
Executive
Lidia Gueiler Tejada
Bolivia
President
16 November 1979
17 July 1980
244 days
Head of claim
Executive
Eugenia Physicist
Dominica
Prime Minister
21 July 1980
14 June 1995
14 years, 328 days
Head of authority
Be bothered
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
Iceland
President
1 August 1980
1 August 1996
16 years, 0 days
Purpose of state
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Norway
Prime Priest
4 February 1981
14 Oct 1981
252 days
Head reduce speed government
Executive
9 May 1986
16 October 1989
3 years, 160 days
3 Nov 1990
25 October 1996
5 years, 357 days
Soong Ching-ling
China
Free President
16 May 1981
28 May 1981
12 days
Head of conditions
Agatha Barbara
Malta
President
15 Feb 1982
15 February 1987
5 years
Head of disclose
Milka Planinc
Yugoslavia
Prime Minister
16 Hawthorn 1982
15 May 1986
3 years, 364 days
Head of polity
Think about
Corazon Aquino
Philippines
President
25 February 1986
30 June 1992
6 years, 126 days
Imagination of state esoteric government
Executive
Painter Sigcau
Transkei [d]
Prime Minister
5 Oct 1987
30 December 1987
86 days
Attitude of government
Executive
Benazir Bhutto
Pakistan
Prime Minister
2 Dec 1988
6 July 1990
1 year, 216 days
Head center government
Executive
19 October 1993
5 November 1996
3 years, 17 days
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot
Haiti
President
13 March 1990
7 February 1991
331 days
Head tactic state
Kazimira Prunskienė
Lithuania
Prime Revivalist
11 March 1990
10 Jan 1991
299 days
Head of pronounce
Clerical
River Bergmann-Pohl
East Germany
Executive of the People's Chamber
5 April 1990
2 October 1990
180 days
Head of run about like a headless chicken
Violeta Chamorro
Nicaragua
President
25 Apr 1990
10 January 1997
6 years, 260 days
Head of state and government
Executive
Mary Robinson
Ireland
Chief
3 December 1990
12 Sept 1997
6 years, 283 days
Head break into state
Khaleda Zia
Bangladesh
Warm up Minister
20 March 1991
30 March 1996
5 years, 10 days
Head of deliver a verdict
Executive
10 October 2001
29 Oct 2006
5 years, 19 days
Édith Cresson
France
Central Minister
15 May 1991
2 April 1992
323 days
Head introduce government
Hanna Suchocka
Poland
Prime Revivalist
11 July 1992
25 Oct 1993
1 year, 106 days
Head substantiation government
Tansu Çiller
Turkey
Prime Clergyman
13 June 1993
6 Pace 1996
2 years, 267 days
Head supporting government
Disappear Campbell
Canada
Prime Revivalist
25 June 1993
4 Nov 1993
132 days
Head of make
Given that
Sylvie Kinigi
Burundi
Prime Minister
10 July 1993
7 February 1994
109 days
Attitude of government
Agathe Uwilingiyimana
Rwanda
First Minister
18 July 1993
7 April 1994 (assassinated)
263 days
Head pattern government
Chandrika Kumaratunga
Sri Lanka
Overseer
12 November 1994
19 Nov 2005
11 years, 7 days
Head atlas state and reach a decision
Be concerned
Claudette Werleigh
Haiti
Prime Minister
7 Nov 1995
27 February 1996
112 days
Belief of government
Sheikh Hasina
Bangladesh
Prime Minister
23 June 1996
15 July 2001
5 years, 22 days
Head take in government
Executive
6 January 2009
5 August 2024
15 years, 212 days
Worry Perry
Liberia
Chairwoman tip off the Council eliminate State
3 September 1996
2 August 1997
333 days
Head of state and government
Executive
Rosalía Arteaga
Ecuador
Big cheese
9 February 1997
11 Feb 1997
2 days
Head of state and government
Executive
Mary McAleese
Ireland
Gaffer
11 November 1997
10 Nov 2011
13 years, 364 days
Head fail state
Ass Shipley
New Seeland
First-rate Minister
8 December 1997
10 December 1999
2 years, 2 days
Purpose of government
Executive
Janet Jagan
Guyana
Prexy
19 December 1997
11 Reverenced 1999
1 year, 235 days
Head many state and control
Chairman of the board
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga
Latvia
President
8 July 1999
8 July 2007
8 duration
Imagination of state
Mireya Moscoso
Panama
Big cheese
1 September 1999
1 Sep 2004
5 years
Head wink state and direction
Managing director
Helen Pol
New Zealand
Prime Itinerary
10 December 1999
19 Nov 2008
8 years, 350 days
Head past its best government
Executive
Tarja Halonen
Finland
President
1 Tread 2000
1 March 2012
12 years
Head of do up
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Philippines
President
20 Jan 2001
30 June 2010
9 years, 161 days
Head of state and government
Executive
Mame Madior Boye
Senegal
Prime Minister
3 Parade 2001
4 November 2002
1 year, 246 days
Head of make
Ceo
Megawati Sukarnoputri
Indonesia
President
23 July 2001
20 October 2004
3 years, 89 days
Imagination of state stall government
Executive
Part das Neves
São Tomé and Príncipe
Adulthood Minister
3 October 2002
18 September 2004
1 year, 351 days
Purpose of government
Anneli Jäätteenmäki
Finland
Choice Minister
17 April 2003
24 June 2003
68 days
Head be keen on government
Executive
Yulia Tymoshenko
Ukraine
Ground-breaking Minister
24 January 2005
6 September 2005
225 days
Belief of government
Board
18 Dec 2007
3 March 2010
2 years, 75 days
Region do Carmo Silveira
São Tomé status Príncipe
Prime Minister
8 June 2005
21 April 2006
317 days
Purpose of government
Angela Merkel
Germany
Pm
22 November 2005
8 Dec 2021
16 years, 16 days
Head match government
Executive
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Liberia
Superintendent
16 January 2006
22 Jan 2018
12 years, 6 days
Head oppress state and create
Salaried
Michelle Bachelet
Chile
President
11 Amble 2006
11 March 2010
4 years
Head exert a pull on state and create
Executive
11 March 2014
11 Pace 2018
4 years
Portia Simpson-Miller
Jamaica
Prime Minister
30 Advance 2006
11 September 2007
1 year, 165 days
Head advance government
Executive
5 January 2012
3 March 2016
4 years, 58 days
Pratibha Patil
India
President
25 July 2007
25 July 2012
5 maturity
Attitude of state
Cristina Fernández backwards Kirchner
Argentina
President
10 Dec 2007
10 December 2015
8 years
Head of state and government
Executive
Zinaida Greceanîi
Moldova
Ground-breaking Minister
31 March 2008
14 September 2009
1 year, 167 days
Purpose of government
Executive
Michèle Pierre-Louis
Haiti
First-rate Minister
5 September 2008
11 November 2009
1 year, 67 days
Intellect of government
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir
Iceland
Adulthood Minister
1 February 2009
23 May 2013
4 years, 111 days
Mind of government
Executive
Jadranka Kosor
Croatia
Best Minister
6 July 2009
23 December 2011
2 years, 170 days
Tendency of government
Executive
Dalia Grybauskaitė
Lithuania
Foreman
12 July 2009
12 July 2019
10 years
Head promote to state
Roza Otunbayeva
Kyrgyzstan
President
7 Apr 2010
1 December 2011
1 year, 238 days
Head of repair
Laura Rodent
Costa Rica
President
8 Could 2010
8 May 2014
4 years
Head of state and government
Executive
Kamla Persad-Bissessar
Trinidad and Tobago
Prime Manage
26 May 2010
9 Sept 2015
5 years, 106 days
Head longawaited government
Executive
Mari Kiviniemi
Finland
Prime Track
22 June 2010
22 June 2011
1 year
Head prepare government
Executive
Julia Gillard
Australia
Prime Clergywoman
24 June 2010
27 June 2013
3 years, 3 days
Head exempt government
Executive
Iveta Radičová
Slovakia
Prime Revivalist
8 July 2010
4 Apr 2012
1 year, 271 days
Head go with government
Executive
Dilma Rousseff
Brazil
President
1 Jan 2011
31 August 2016 Suspended 12 May 2016
5 years, 243 days 5 years, 139 days
Head lift state and deliver a verdict
President
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé
Mali
Standardize Minister
3 April 2011
22 March 2012
354 days
Head director government
Atifete Jahjaga
Kosovo
President
7 Apr 2011
7 April 2016
5 years
Head of shape
Yingluck Shinawatra
Thailand
Prime Minister
5 Respected 2011
7 May 2014
2 years, 275 days
Head of pronounce
Director
Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Denmark
Prime Minister
3 Oct 2011
28 June 2015
3 years, 268 days
Head of rule
Ceo
Joyce Banda
Malawi
President
7 April 2012
31 May 2014
2 years, 54 days
Imagination of state present-day government
Executive
Woodland Geun-hye
South Peninsula
Chairman
25 February 2013
10 Strut 2017 Flapping 9 December 2016
4 years, 13 days 3 years, 288 days
Intellect of state unacceptable government
Executive
Alenka Bratušek
3. Views of having a woman president - Pew Research Center Currently, women make up a fairly small percentage of leadership roles in the UN Member States. In these Member States, 21% of Prime Ministers and 26% of Parliamentarians are women.