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🏭 Firms with female participation in ownership

Percentage of firms with females among the owners.

📅 2025📏 %61 entries
70.0% – 48.4%48.3% – 41.2%39.1% – 32.9%32.3% – 23.1%18.4% – 1.3%No data
1
🇬🇹Guatemala
70.0%
2
🇰🇮Kiribati
61.6%
3
🇹🇭Thailand
61.3%
4
🇧🇳Brunei
56.8%
5
🇦🇬Antigua and Barbuda
56.2%
6
🇧🇷Brazil
55.4%
7
🇩🇴Dominican Republic
54.3%
8
🇧🇴Bolivia
53.8%
9
🇳🇴Norway
50.4%
10
🇦🇺Australia
49.9%
11
🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago
48.8%
12
🇬🇩Grenada
48.6%
13
🇧🇪Belgium
48.4%
14
🇧🇿Belize
48.3%
15
🇨🇱Chile
48.0%
16
🇿🇼Zimbabwe
47.2%
17
🇧🇮Burundi
47.0%
18
🇸🇹São Tomé and Príncipe
45.8%
19
🇲🇳Mongolia
45.1%
20
🇰🇲Comoros
45.0%
21
🇫🇯Fiji
44.9%
22
🇫🇷France
43.1%
23
🇵🇦Panama
42.5%
24
🇫🇮Finland
42.3%
25
🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
41.2%
26
🇱🇨Saint Lucia
39.1%
27
🇸🇷Suriname
37.9%
28
🇲🇻Maldives
37.6%
29
🇨🇭Switzerland
37.3%
30
🇵🇱Poland
36.9%
31
🇬🇦Gabon
36.7%
32
🇩🇰Denmark
36.6%
33
🇰🇪Kenya
36.5%
34
🇸🇧Solomon Islands
36.3%
35
🇯🇵Japan
36.3%
36
🇲🇿Mozambique
33.7%
37
🇿🇲Zambia
32.9%
38
🇪🇹Ethiopia
32.3%
39
🇩🇯Djibouti
32.3%
40
🇦🇹Austria
32.2%
41
🇳🇱Netherlands
30.3%
42
🇨🇿Czechia
28.2%
43
🇺🇬Uganda
27.9%
44
🇩🇪Germany
26.9%
45
🇱🇹Lithuania
26.4%
46
🇳🇪Niger
25.2%
47
🇲🇷Mauritania
24.5%
48
🇦🇱Albania
23.2%
49
🇱🇷Liberia
23.1%
50
🇳🇬Nigeria
18.4%

Highlights

As of 2025, Guatemala ranks first with 70.0%, followed by Kiribati (61.6%) and Thailand (61.3%).

Across 61 countries and territories, values run from 70.0% (Guatemala) to 1.3% (Qatar), with a median of 36.7%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 5 from the Americas, 2 from Asia, 2 from Oceania and 1 from Europe.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Firms with female participation in ownership (% of firms), 2025. Unit: %.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Firms with female participation in ownership (% of firms) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026