Female Heads of State

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This is a list of women who have been elected or appointed head of state of their respective countries. This list does not include monarchs. Names in italics refer to temporary presidencies. The list is organised chronologically (mandate start date).

Name	Country	Name of post	Mandate start	Mandate end
Khertek Anchimaa-Toka	Tuva	Chairman of the Presidium of the Little Khural	1940	1944-10-11
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa	Mongolia	Acting Chairman of the Presidium	1953-09-23	1954-07-07
Soong Ching-ling	People's Republic of China	Chairman of the People's Republic of China	1968-10-31	1972-04-24
Isabel Martínez de Perón	Argentina	President	1974-07-01	1976-03-24
Lidia Gueiler Tejada	Bolivia	Interim President	1979-11-16	1980-07-17
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir	Iceland	President	1980-08-01	1996-08-01
Soong Ching-ling	People's Republic of China	President of the People's Republic of China	1981-05-16	1981-05-28
Maria Lea Pedini-Angelini	San Marino	Captain Regent	1981-04-01	1981-10-01
Agatha Barbara	Malta	President	1982-02-15	1987-02-15
Gloriana Ranocchini (1st term)	San Marino	Captain Regent	1984-04-01	1984-10-01
Carmen Pereira	Guinea-Bissau	Acting President	1984-05-14	1984-05-16
Elisabeth Kopp	Switzerland	Member of the Federal Council and Vice President	1984-10-20	1989-01-12
Corazon Aquino	Philippines	President	1986-02-25	1992-06-30
Gloriana Ranocchini (2nd term)	San Marino	Captain Regent	1989-10-01	1990-04-01
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot	Haiti	Interim President	1990-03-13	1991-02-07
Sabine Bergmann-Pohl	East Germany	President of the Volkskammer	1990-04-05	1990-10-02
Violeta Chamorro	Nicaragua	President	1990-04-25	1997-01-10
Mary Robinson	Ireland	President	1990-12-03	1997-09-12
Edda Ceccoli	San Marino	Captain Regent	1991-10-01	1992-04-01
Ruth Dreifuss	Switzerland	Member of the Federal Council and President of the Swiss Confederation	1993-04-01	2002-12-31
Patricia Busignani	San Marino	Captain Regent	1993-04-01	1993-10-01
Sylvie Kinigi	Burundi	Acting President	1993-10-27	1994-02-05
Chandrika Kumaratunga	Sri Lanka	President	1994-11-12	2005-11-19
Ruth Perry	Liberia	Chairman of the Council of State	1996-09-03	1997-08-02
Rosalía Arteaga Serrano	Ecuador	Caretaker President	1997-02-09	1997-02-11
Mary McAleese	Ireland	President	1997-11-11	present
Janet Jagan	Guyana	President	1997-12-19	1999-08-11
Ruth Metzler	Switzerland	Member of the Federal Council and Vice President	1999-03-11	2003-12-10
Rosa Zafferani	San Marino	Captain Regent	1999-04-01	1999-10-01
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga	Latvia	President	1999-07-08	2007-07-07
Mireya Moscoso	Panama	President	1999-09-01	2004-09-01
Helen Clark	New Zealand	Prime Minister	1999-11-27	2008-11-08
Tarja Halonen	Finland	President	2000-03-01	present
Maria Domenica Michelotti	San Marino	Captain Regent	2000-04-01	2000-10-01
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo	Philippines	President	2001-01-20	2010-06-30
Mame Madior Boye	Senegal	Prime Minister	2001-03-03	2002-11-4
Megawati Sukarnoputri	Indonesia	President	2001-07-23	2004-10-20
Nataša Mićić	Serbia	Acting President	2002-12-30	2004-02-04
Micheline Calmy-Rey	Switzerland	Member of the Federal Council and President of the Swiss Confederation	2003-01-01	present
Beatriz Merino Lucero	Peru	Prime Minister	2003-06-23	2003-12-12
Valeria Ciavatta	San Marino	Captain Regent	2003-10-01	2004-04-01
Nino Burjanadze	Georgia	Acting President	2003-11-23	2004-01-25
Luísa Dias Diogo	Mozambique	Prime Minister	2004	2010-01-16
Yulia Tymoshenko (1st term)	Ukraine	Prime Minister	2005-01-24	2005-09-08
Fausta Morganti	San Marino	Captain Regent	2005-04-01	2005-10-01
Angela Merkel	Germany	Chancellor	2005-11-22	present
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf	Liberia	President	2006-01-16	present
Michelle Bachelet	Chile	President	2006-03-11	2010-03-11
Portia Simpson-Miller	Jamaica	Prime Minister	2006-03-30	2007-09-11
Han Myeong-Sook	Korea	Prime Minister	2006-04-20	2007-03-07
Doris Leuthard	Switzerland	Member of the Federal Council	2006	present
Dalia Itzi	Israel	Acting President	2007-01-25	2007-07-15
Pratibha Patil	India	President	2007-07-25	present
Nino Burjanadze	Georgia	Acting President	2007-11-25	2008-01-20
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner	Argentina	President	2007-12-10	present
Yulia Tymoshenko (2nd term)	Ukraine	Prime Minister	2007-12-18	present
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf	Switzerland	Member of the Federal Council	2008-01-01	present
Jóhanna Sigurdardóttir	Iceland	Prime Minister	2009-02-01	present
Dalia Grybauskaite	Lithuania	President	2009-07-12
Laura Chinchilla Miranda	Costa Rica	President	2010-02-07	present
Roza Isakovna Otunbayeva	Kyrgyzstan	President	2010-03-07	present
Dilma Rousseff	Brazil	President	2010-10-31	present
Atifete Jahjaga]	Kosova	President	2011-04-06	present}

Country	Number	Suffrage	Heads of state since suffrage	Proportion
San Marino	9	1959	194	5%
Switzerland	5 (2 Presidents)	1971	27
Ireland	2	1918	8	25%
Liberia	2	1946	12	17%
Philippines	2	1937	13	15%
Argentina	2	1947	18	11%
Bolivia	1	1952	23	4%
Burundi	1	1961	13	8%
Chile	1	1931	14	7%
Ecuador	1	1967	16	6%
Finland	1	1906	11	9%
Georgia	1	1919	4	25%
East Germany	1	1918	8	13%
Guinea-Bissau	1	1977	9	11%
Guyana	1	1953	8	13%
Haiti	1	1950	21	5%
Iceland	1	1915	5	20%
India	1	1935	14	7%
Indonesia	1	1945	6	17%
Israel	2	1948	13	15%
Latvia	1	1918	6	17%
Malta	1	1947	9	11%
Mongolia	1	1924	18	6%
Nicaragua	1	1955	11	9%
Panama	1	1941	27	4%
Sri Lanka	1	1931	6	17%