List of elected or appointed female heads of government

Map showing countries which since independence have had, excluding monarchs:

  Female head of government

  Female head of state^[1]

  Female head of state/government (combined)

  Female head of state and female head of government

Three former sovereign states (East Germany, Tannu Tuva, and Yugoslavia) have also had a female Head of State or Head of Government

This is a list of women who have been elected or appointed as head of government of their respective countries. For female leaders of presidential systems, where there is no separate head of government, please see the List of elected and appointed female heads of state article.

List of female heads of government

  Denotes incumbent head of government

• Italics denotes an acting head of government and states that are either de facto (with limited to no international recognition) or defunct.

Name	Image	Country	Office	Mandate start	Mandate end	Term length
Sirimavo Bandaranaike		Ceylon	Prime Minister	21 July 1960	27 March 1965	4 years, 249 days
Indira Gandhi		India	Prime Minister	24 January 1966	24 April 1977	11 years, 90 days
Golda Meir		Israel	Prime Minister	17 March 1969	3 June 1974	5 years, 78 days
Sirimavo Bandaranaike		Ceylon/  Sri Lanka	Prime Minister	29 May 1970	23 July 1977	7 years, 55 days
Elisabeth Domitien		Central African Republic	Prime Minister	2 January 1975	7 April 1976	1 year, 96 days
Margaret Thatcher		United Kingdom	Prime Minister	4 May 1979	28 November 1990	11 years, 208 days
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo		Portugal	Prime Minister	1 July 1979	3 January 1980	186 days
Indira Gandhi		India	Prime Minister	15 January 1980	31 October 1984	4 years, 290 days
Dame Eugenia Charles		Dominica	Prime Minister	21 July 1980	14 June 1995	14 years, 328 days
Gro Harlem Brundtland		Norway	Prime Minister	4 February 1981	14 October 1981	252 days
Milka Planinc		Yugoslavia	Prime Minister	16 May 1982	15 May 1986	3 years, 364 days
Gro Harlem Brundtland		Norway	Prime Minister	9 May 1986	16 October 1989	3 years, 160 days
Benazir Bhutto		Pakistan	Prime Minister	2 December 1988	6 July 1990	1 year, 216 days
Kazimira Prunskienė		Lithuania	Prime Minister	17 March 1990	10 January 1991	299 days
Gro Harlem Brundtland		Norway	Prime Minister	3 November 1990	25 October 1996	5 years, 357 days
Khaleda Zia		Bangladesh	Prime Minister	27 February 1991	30 March 1996	5 years, 32 days
Édith Cresson		France	Prime Minister	15 May 1991	2 April 1992	323 days
Hanna Suchocka		Poland	Prime Minister	11 July 1992	25 October 1993	1 year, 106 days
Tansu Çiller		Turkey	Prime Minister	13 June 1993	6 March 1996	2 years, 267 days
Kim Campbell		Canada	Prime Minister	25 June 1993	4 November 1993	132 days
Sylvie Kinigi		Burundi	Prime Minister	10 July 1993	27 October 1993	109 days
Agathe Uwilingiyimana		Rwanda	Prime Minister	18 July 1993	7 April 1994	263 days
Benazir Bhutto		Pakistan	Prime Minister	19 October 1993	5 November 1996	3 years, 17 days
Chandrika Kumaratunga		Sri Lanka	Prime Minister	19 August 1994	14 November 1994	87 days
Reneta Indzhova		Bulgaria	Acting Prime Minister	17 October 1994	25 January 1995	100 days
Sirimavo Bandaranaike		Sri Lanka	Prime Minister	14 November 1994	10 July 2000	5 years, 239 days
Claudette Werleigh		Haiti	Prime Minister	7 November 1995	27 February 1996	112 days
Sheikh Hasina		Bangladesh	Prime Minister	12 June 1996	15 July 2001	5 years, 33 days
Janet Jagan		Guyana	Prime Minister	6 March 1997	19 December 1997	288 days
Jenny Shipley		New Zealand	Prime Minister	5 December 1997	5 December 1999	2 years, 0 days
Anne Enger Lahnstein		Norway	Acting Prime Minister	30 August 1998	23 September 1998	24 days
Irena Degutienė		Lithuania	Acting Prime Minister	4 May 1999	18 May 1999	14 days
Nyam-Osoryn Tuyaa		Mongolia	Acting Prime Minister	22 July 1999	30 July 1999	8 days
Irena Degutienė		Lithuania	Acting Prime Minister	27 October 1999	3 November 1999	7 days
Helen Clark		New Zealand	Prime Minister	5 December 1999	19 November 2008	8 years, 350 days
Mame Madior Boye		Senegal	Prime Minister	3 March 2001	4 November 2002	1 year, 246 days
Khaleda Zia		Bangladesh	Prime Minister	1 October 2001	29 October 2006	5 years, 28 days
Chang Sang		South Korea	Acting Prime Minister	11 July 2002	31 July 2002	20 days
Maria das Neves		São Tomé and Príncipe	Prime Minister	3 October 2002	18 September 2004	1 year, 351 days
Anneli Jäätteenmäki		Finland	Prime Minister	17 April 2003	24 June 2003	68 days
Beatriz Merino		Peru	Prime Minister	28 June 2003	15 December 2003	170 days
Luisa Diogo		Mozambique	Prime Minister	17 February 2004	16 January 2010	5 years, 333 days
Radmila Šekerinska		Macedonia	Acting Prime Minister	12 May 2004	12 June 2004	31 days
Radmila Šekerinska		Macedonia	Acting Prime Minister	3 November 2004	15 December 2004	42 days
Yulia Tymoshenko		Ukraine	Prime Minister	24 January 2005	6 September 2005	225 days
Cynthia Pratt		Bahamas	Acting Prime Minister	4 May 2005	6 June 2005	32 days
Maria do Carmo Silveira		São Tomé and Príncipe	Prime Minister	8 June 2005	21 April 2006	317 days
Angela Merkel		Germany	Chancellor	22 November 2005	Incumbent	10 years, 169 days
Portia Simpson-Miller		Jamaica	Prime Minister	30 March 2006	11 September 2007	1 year, 165 days
Han Myeong-sook		South Korea	Prime Minister	19 April 2006	7 March 2007	322 days
Yulia Tymoshenko		Ukraine	Prime Minister	18 December 2007	3 March 2010	2 years, 75 days
Zinaida Greceanîi		Moldova	Prime Minister	31 March 2008	14 September 2009	1 year, 167 days
Michèle Pierre-Louis		Haiti	Prime Minister	5 September 2008	11 November 2009	1 year, 67 days
Sheikh Hasina		Bangladesh	Prime Minister	6 January 2009	Incumbent	7 years, 124 days
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir		Iceland	Prime Minister	1 February 2009	23 May 2013	4 years, 111 days
Jadranka Kosor		Croatia	Prime Minister	6 July 2009	23 December 2011	2 years, 170 days
Cécile Manorohanta		Madagascar	Acting Prime Minister	18 December 2009	20 December 2009	2 days
Kamla Persad-Bissessar		Trinidad and Tobago	Prime Minister	26 May 2010	9 September 2015	5 years, 106 days
Mari Kiviniemi		Finland	Prime Minister	22 June 2010	22 June 2011	1 year, 0 days
Julia Gillard		Australia	Prime Minister	24 June 2010	27 June 2013	3 years, 3 days
Iveta Radičová		Slovakia	Prime Minister	8 July 2010	4 April 2012	1 year, 271 days
Rosario Fernández		Peru	Prime Minister	19 March 2011	28 July 2011	131 days
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé		Mali	Prime Minister	3 April 2011	22 March 2012	354 days
Yingluck Shinawatra		Thailand	Prime Minister	3 July 2011	7 May 2014	2 years, 308 days
Helle Thorning-Schmidt		Denmark	Prime Minister	3 October 2011	28 June 2015	3 years, 268 days
Portia Simpson-Miller		Jamaica	Prime Minister	5 January 2012	3 March 2016	4 years, 58 days
Adiato Djaló Nandigna		Guinea-Bissau	Acting Prime Minister	10 February 2012	12 April 2012	62 days
Alenka Bratušek		Slovenia	Prime Minister	20 March 2013	18 September 2014	1 year, 182 days
Sibel Siber		Northern Cyprus	Prime Minister	13 June 2013	2 September 2013	81 days
Tatiana Turanskaya		Transnistria	Prime Minister	10 June 2013	13 October 2015	2 years, 125 days
Aminata Touré		Senegal	Prime Minister	1 September 2013	8 July 2014	310 days
Erna Solberg		Norway	Prime Minister	16 October 2013	Incumbent	2 years, 206 days
Laimdota Straujuma		Latvia	Prime Minister	22 January 2014	11 February 2016	2 years, 20 days
Ana Jara		Peru	Prime Minister	22 July 2014	2 April 2015	254 days
Ewa Kopacz		Poland	Prime Minister	22 September 2014	16 November 2015	1 year, 55 days
Florence Duperval Guillaume		Haiti	Acting Prime Minister	20 December 2014	16 January 2015	27 days
Saara Kuugongelwa		Namibia	Prime Minister	21 March 2015	Incumbent	1 year, 49 days
Natalia Gherman		Moldova	Acting Prime Minister	22 June 2015	30 July 2015	38 days
Vassiliki Thanou		Greece	Acting Prime Minister	27 August 2015	21 September 2015	25 days
Maija Parnas		Transnistria	Acting Prime Minister	13 October 2015	30 November 2015	48 days
Beata Szydło		Poland	Prime Minister	16 November 2015	Incumbent	175 days
Tatiana Turanskaya		Transnistria	Prime Minister	30 November 2015	2 December 2015	2 days
Maija Parnas		Transnistria	Acting Prime Minister	2 December 2015	23 December 2015	21 days
Aung San Suu Kyi		Myanmar	State Counsellor	6 April 2016	Incumbent	33 days

See also

• Council of Women World Leaders
• List of current state leaders by date of assumption of office
• List of elected or appointed female heads of state
  • List of elected or appointed female deputy heads of state
• List of elected or appointed female deputy heads of government
• List of female speakers of national and territorial lower houses
• List of female speakers of national and territorial unicameral parliaments
• List of female speakers of national and territorial upper houses
• List of the first female holders of political offices
• Women's suffrage

References

1. Including female representatives of heads of state, such as Governors-General and French Representatives of Andorra

External links

• Council of Women World Leaders
• Women Prime Ministers (Zárate's Political Collections)