A List of Females that have held the positions of President or Prime Minister of countries around the world, as at January 2021.
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- 1960 – 1965: Sirimavo Bandaranaike: Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
- 1966 – 1977: Indira Gandhi: Prime Minister of India
- 1970 – 1977: Sirimavo Bandaranaike: Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
- 1979 – 1980: Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo: Prime Minister of Portugal
- 1979 – 1990: Margaret Thatcher: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1980 – 1984: Indira Gandhi: Prime Minister of India
- 1980 – 1995: Eugenia Charles: Prime Minister of Dominica
- 1980 – 1996: Vigdís Finnbogadóttir: President of Iceland
- 1981 – 1981: Gro Harlem Brundtland: Prime Minister of Norway
- 1984 – 1986:, 1988 – 1994 Maria Liberia Peters: Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles
- 1984 – 1986:, 1988 – 1994 Maria Liberia Peters: Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles
- 1986 – 1989: Gro Harlem Brundtland: Prime Minister of Norway
- 1986 – 1992: Corazon Aquino: President of the Philippines
- 1988 – 1990: Benazir Bhutto: Prime Minister of Pakistan
- 1990 – 1991: Kazimira Prunskienė: Prime Minister of Liberia
- 1990 – 1996: Gro Harlem Brundtland: Prime Minister of Norway
- 1990 – 1996: Violeta Barrios de Chamorro: President of Nicaragua
- 1990 – 1997: Mary Robinson: President of Ireland
- 1991 – 1992: Édith Cresson: Prime Minister of France
- 1991 – 1996: Begum Khaleda Zia: Prime Minister of Bangladesh
- 1992 – 1993: Hanna Suchocka: Prime Minister of Poland
- 1993 – 1993: Kim Campbell: Prime Minister of Canada
- 1993 – 1993: Susanne Camelia-Römer: Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles
- 1993 – 1996: Benazir Bhutto: Prime Minister of Pakistan
- 1993 – 1996: Tansu Çiller: Prime Minister of Turkey
- 1994 – 2000: Sirimavo Bandaranaike: Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
- 1994 – 2005: Chandrika Kumaratunga: President of Sri Lanka
- 1996 – 2001: Sheikh Hasina: Prime Minister of Bangladesh
- 1997 – 1998: Pamela F. Gordon: Premier of Bermuda
- 1997 – 1999: Janet Jagan: President of Guyana
- 1997 – 1999: Jenny Shipley: Prime Minister of New Zealand
- 1997 – 2011: Mary McAleese: President of Ireland
- 1998 – 1999: Susanne Camelia-Römer: Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles
- 1998 – 2003: Jennifer M. Smith: Premier of Bermuda
- 1999 – 1999: Ruth Dreifuss: President of Switzerland
- 1999 – 2004: Mireya Moscoso: President of Panama
- 1999 – 2007: Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga: President of Latvia
- 1999 – 2008: Helen Clark: Prime Minister of New Zealand
- 2000 – 2012: Tarja Halonen: President of Finland
- 2001 – 2004: Megawati Sukarnoputri: President of Indonesia
- 2001 – 2006: Begum Khaleda Zia: Prime Minister of Bangladesh
- 2001 – 2010: Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo: President of the Philippines
- 2002 – 2004: Maria das Neves: Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe
- 2003 – 2003: Beatriz Merino: Prime Minister of Peru
- 2004 – 2010: Luisa Diogo: Prime Minister of Mozambique
- 2005 – 2005: Yulia Tymoshenko: Prime Minister of Ukraine
- 2005 – present: Angela Merkel: Chancellor of Germany
- 2006 – 2010: Michelle Bachelet: President of Chile
- 2006 – 2007: Portia Simpson-Miller: Prime Minister of Jamaica
- 2006 – 2010: Emily de Jongh-Elhage: Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles
- 2006 – 2018: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: President of Liberia
- 2007 – 2007: Micheline Calmy-Rey: President of Switzerland
- 2007 – 2010: Yulia Tymoshenko: Prime Minister of Ukraine
- 2007 – 2012: Pratibha Patil: President of India
- 2007 – 2015: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner: President of Argentina
- 2008 – 2009: Michèle Pierre-Louis: Prime Minister of Haiti
- 2009 – 2011: Jadranka Kosor: Prime Minister of Croatia
- 2009 – 2013: Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir: Prime Minister of Iceland
- 2009 – 2019: Dalia Grybauskaitė: President of Lithuania
- 2009 – present: Sheikh Hasina: Prime Minister of Bangladesh
- 2010 – 2010: Doris Leuthard: President of Switzerland
- 2010 – 2011: Mari Kiviniemi: Prime Minister of Finland
- 2010 – 2011: Roza Otunbayeva: President of Kyrgyzstan
- 2010 – 2012: Iveta Radičová: Prime Minister of Slovakia
- 2010 – 2012: Paula Cox: Premier of Bermuda
- 2010 – 2013: Julia Gillard: Prime Minister of Australia
- 2010 – 2014: Laura Chinchilla: President of Costa Rica
- 2010 – 2015: Kamla Persad-Bissessar: Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
- 2011 – 2011: Micheline Calmy-Rey: President of Switzerland
- 2011 – 2015: Helle Thorning-Schmidt: Prime Minister of Denmark
- 2011 – 2016: Atifete Jahjaga: President of Kosovo
- 2011 – 2016: Dilma Rousseff: President of Brazil
- 2012 – 2012: Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf: President of Switzerland
- 2012 – 2014: Joyce Banda: President of Malawi
- 2012 – 2016: Portia Simpson-Miller: Prime Minister of Jamaica
- 2013 – 2017: Park Geun-hye: President of South Korea
- 2013 – present: Erna Solberg: Prime Minister of Norway
- 2014 – 2016: Laimdota Straujuma: Prime Minister of Latvia
- 2014 – 2018: Michelle Bachelet: President of Chile
- 2014 – 2019: Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca: President of Malta
- 2015 – 2014: Simonetta Sommaruga: President of Switzerland
- 2015 – 2018: Ameenah Gurib-Fakim: President of Mauritius
- 2015 – 2020: Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović: President of Croatia
- 2015 – present: Saara Kuugongelwa: Prime Minister of Namibia
- 2016 – 2019: Theresa May: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 2016 – present: Hilda Heine: President of the Marshall Islands
- 2016 – present: Kersti Kaljulaid: President of Estonia
- 2017 – present: Ana Brnabić: Prime Minister of Serbia
- 2017 – present: Jacinda Ardern: Prime Minister of New Zealand
- 2018 – present: Katrín Jakobsdóttir: Prime Minister of Iceland
- 2018 – present: Paula-Mae Weekes: President of Trinidad and Tobago
- 2018 – present: Sahle-Work Zewde: President of Ethiopia
- 2018 – present: Salome Zourabichvili: President of Georgia
- 2020 – present: Ingrida Šimonytė: Prime Minister of Lithuania
- 2020 – present: Simonetta Sommaruga: President of Switzerland
The ones marked in Red are the first female President or Prime Minister of that country.
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