Female Entrepreneurs Percent by Country

Female Entrepreneurs Percent by country, shown on a world map with full country rankings. Data covers 141 countries for 2025, sourced from World Bank Open Data. See also Female Labor Force Participation and Gender Parity Index Education.

Female Entrepreneurs Percent reaches its highest value in Jamaica, at 66.9%, and its lowest in Qatar, at 1.3%.

The average across 141 countries and territories is 33.3% for 2025. That makes the Jamaica figure roughly 53 times the Qatar figure.

HighestJamaica66.9

LowestQatar1.3

Average33.3141 countries

Year2025latest available

Jamaica tops the list, while Qatar sits at the lower end, showing wide variation.

Top 10 countries

Jamaica66.9

Paraguay63.4

Colombia62.5

Kiribati61.6

Seychelles60.6

Indonesia59.4

Iceland58.8

New Zealand58.2

Central African Republic57.5

Brunei Darussalam56.8

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Female Entrepreneurs Percent: full country ranking (2025)

#	Country	Female Entrepreneurs Percent
1	Jamaica	66.9
2	Paraguay	63.4
3	Colombia	62.5
4	Kiribati	61.6
5	Seychelles	60.6
6	Indonesia	59.4
7	Iceland	58.8
8	New Zealand	58.2
9	Central African Republic	57.5
10	Brunei Darussalam	56.8
11	Philippines	56.7
12	Spain	56.6
13	Ireland	56
14	Ecuador	55.7
15	El Salvador	55.5
16	Lesotho	55.4
17	Peru	55.3
18	Samoa	54.9
19	Bolivia	53.8
20	Costa Rica	53
21	Italy	52.9
22	France	51.2
23	Eswatini	50.2
24	Lao PDR	50
25	Uruguay	49.8
26	Trinidad and Tobago	48.8
27	Cabo Verde	48.4
28	Portugal	47.8
29	Zimbabwe	47.2
30	United Kingdom	47.1
31	Burundi	47
32	Namibia	46.8
33	Latvia	46.5
34	Sao Tome and Principe	45.8
35	Malta	45.6
36	Mongolia	45.1
37	Comoros	45
38	Fiji	44.9
39	Belgium	44.6
40	China	44
41	Greece	43.9
42	Hungary	43.5
43	Vanuatu	42.2
44	Cambodia	40.4
45	Mauritius	39.6
46	Moldova	39.4
47	St. Lucia	39.1
48	Malaysia	38.6
49	Estonia	38
50	Suriname	37.9
51	Rwanda	37.8
52	Maldives	37.6
53	Hong Kong SAR, China	37.1
54	Canada	37.1
55	Papua New Guinea	37
56	Poland	36.9
57	Cameroon	36.8
58	Gabon	36.7
59	Denmark	36.6
60	Kenya	36.5
61	Solomon Islands	36.3
62	Sweden	36
63	Singapore	35.9
64	Botswana	35.1
65	Ghana	35
66	Slovenia	35
67	Bahrain	34.4
68	Croatia	34.3
69	Kyrgyz Republic	34.3
70	South Sudan	33.8
71	Mozambique	33.7
72	Barbados	32.6
73	Ethiopia	32.3
74	Austria	32.2
75	Czechia	32.1
76	Bhutan	31.3
77	Tonga	31.2
78	United States	30.5
79	Benin	30.1
80	Kazakhstan	30.1
81	Cyprus	30
82	Bulgaria	29.5
83	Georgia	29.5
84	Uzbekistan	28.9
85	Slovak Republic	28.7
86	Armenia	27.9
87	Uganda	27.9
88	Serbia	27.4
89	Germany	26.9
90	Timor-Leste	26.9
91	Angola	26.8
92	Romania	26.7
93	Equatorial Guinea	26.1
94	Jordan	25.6
95	Niger	25.2
96	Congo, Dem. Rep.	25
97	Togo	25
98	Viet Nam	24.8
99	Mauritania	24.5
100	Madagascar	24.2
101	Montenegro	24
102	Bosnia and Herzegovina	23.7
103	Albania	23.2
104	Liberia	23.1
105	Congo, Rep.	22.9
106	Cote d'Ivoire	22.5
107	Afghanistan	22.5
108	Burkina Faso	22.2
109	Korea, Rep.	21.5
110	Senegal	20.7
111	North Macedonia	20.6
112	Sierra Leone	19.1
113	Tunisia	18.6
114	Nigeria	18.4
115	Malawi	17.9
116	Sri Lanka	17.5
117	Gambia, The	17.1
118	Israel	16.9
119	Egypt, Arab Rep.	16.9
120	Turkiye	15.8
121	Mexico	14.9
122	Nepal	14.7
123	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	14.5
124	Guinea-Bissau	14
125	Kosovo	13.7
126	Tanzania	13.2
127	Guinea	12.6
128	Morocco	12.3
129	West Bank and Gaza	11.8
130	Mali	11.3
131	Tajikistan	10.7
132	Chad	10.7
133	Turkmenistan	10.4
134	Azerbaijan	9.6
135	Bangladesh	6.7
136	Pakistan	4.9
137	India	3.9
138	Iraq	3.8
139	Kuwait	2.8
140	Saudi Arabia	2.4
141	Qatar	1.3

Source: World Bank Open Data. Latest available year: 2025. Values shown are the most recent reported figure per country.

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