Countries Which Have Had a Female Leader

Which countries have (had) an elected or appointed head of state and/or government?

Year and position refer to the first female leader per country

Positions with an asterisk (*) refer to members of groups which collectively serve as heads of a state

Monarchs are not included

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Year	Position Held	Country
1953	Acting Chairperson of the Presidium of the State Great Khural	Mongolia
1960	Prime Minister	Sri Lanka
1966	Prime Minister	India
1968	Acting Co-Chairperson	China
1969	Prime Minister	Israel
1974	President	Argentina
1975	Prime Minister	Central African Republic
1979	Prime Minister	United Kingdom
1979	Member of the Junta of National Reconstruction*	Nicaragua
1979	Prime Minister	Portugal
1979	Acting President	Bolivia
1980	Prime Minister	Dominica
1980	President	Iceland
1981	Prime Minister	Norway
1981	Captain Regent*	San Marino
1982	President	Malta
1984	Acting President	Guinea-Bissau
1984	Member of the Swiss Federal Council*	Switzerland
1986	President	Philippines
1988	Prime Minister	Pakistan
1990	Acting President	Haiti
1990	Prime Minister	Lithuania
1990	President	Ireland
1991	Prime Minister	Bangladesh
1991	Prime Minister	France
1992	Serb Member of the Presidency*	Bosnia and Herzegovina
1992	Prime Minister	Poland
1993	Prime Minister	Turkey
1993	Prime Minister	Canada
1993	Prime Minister	Burundi
1993	Prime Minister	Rwanda
1994	Acting Prime Minister	Bulgaria
1996	Chairwoman of the Council of State	Liberia
1997	Acting President	Ecuador
1997	Prime Minister	New Zealand
1997	Prime Minister	Guyana
1999	President	Latvia
1999	President	Panama
2000	President	Finland
2001	Prime Minister	Senegal
2001	President	Indonesia
2002	Acting Prime Minister	South Korea
2002	Prime Minister	São Tomé and Príncipe
2003	Prime Minister	Peru
2003	Acting President	Georgia
2004	Prime Minister	Mozambique
2004	Co-Acting President	Austria
2004	Acting Prime Minister	North Macedonia
2005	Prime Minister	Ukraine
2005	Chancellor	Germany
2006	President	Chile
2006	Prime Minister	Jamaica
2008	Prime Minister	Moldova
2008	Acting President	South Africa
2009	Acting President	Gabon
2009	Prime Minister	Croatia
2009	Acting Prime Minister	Madagascar
2010	President	Kyrgyzstan
2010	President	Costa Rica
2010	Prime Minister	Trinidad and Tobago
2010	Prime Minister	Australia
2010	Prime Minister	Slovakia
2011	President	Brazil
2011	Prime Minister	Mali
2011	President	Kosovo
2011	Prime Minister	Thailand
2011	Prime Minister	Denmark
2012	Acting President	Mauritius
2012	Acting President	Serbia
2012	President	Malawi
2013	Prime Minister	Slovenia
2015	Prime Minister	Namibia
2015	Acting Prime Minister	Greece
2015	President	Nepal
2016	President	Marshall Islands
2016	State Counsellor	Myanmar
2016	President	Taiwan
2016	President	Estonia
2017	President	Singapore
2018	Prime Minister	Romania
2018	Prime Minister	Barbados
2018	Acting President	Vietnam
2018	President	Ethiopia
2019	Member of the Sovereignty Council*	Sudan
2019	Prime Minister	Belgium

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