World Bank · Health
Female headed households
Female headed households refers to the percentage of households that are headed by females.
- Coverage
- 78 of 238 countries
- Latest data
- 2023
- Series
- 78
- Unit
- percent
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Retrieved
- 2026-11-05
- Indicator
- female-headed-households
- Interva ID
- worldbank-female-headed-households
Recency
current
data to 2023; catalog to 2025
Provenance
2 steps
as the publisher declares it
Versions
1
catalog snapshots
Citation
BibTeX + CSL
versioned permalink
Quality profile
This profile describes what Interva can measure in the data. It does not claim the dataset is accurate, complete, or suitable for a particular use.
Recency
100%Latest observation is 2023; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 2 year(s) behind (current).
Method: Compares the dataset's latest non-projected period with the year most datasets in the catalog end in. Up to 2 years behind is current — annual data is routinely published a year or two late — and more than 5 is stale. Measured from the data, not from when Interva last crawled it.
Temporal completeness
27%65 of 78 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 27% of its years.
Method: Per series, years present divided by years from its first to its last observation; the median across series is reported. Annual periods are assumed, which holds for every series in the catalog today.
Geographic coverage
MeasuredCovers 78 of the 238 countries in the catalog.
Method: Counts distinct geographies with at least one observation. Not scored: a regional dataset covering its region completely is not deficient for omitting the rest of the world.
History depth
MeasuredThe median series has 3 observations; the earliest begins in 1990.
Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.
Revisions
MeasuredNo observation has been restated in any vintage Interva has recorded.
Method: Counts values the publisher changed between Interva's publishes. Not scored: revising estimates is ordinary and often a sign of care, and the count is here so a reader citing a figure knows whether it moves.
Schema conformity
Not assessedNo declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.
Validity
Not assessedNo field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.
Consistency
Not assessedCross-series consistency rules are not defined yet. The obvious first one — whether two publishers measuring one concept agree within a stated tolerance — is a candidate.
2 scored from the data, 3 described without a score, 3 not assessed. Pipeline integrity: all 5 checks pass. Assessed 2026-11-07.
By country
Female headed households for each of the 78 countries it covers, with the full history.
- Afghanistan 2015–2015
- Albania 2009–2018
- Angola 2007–2016
- Armenia 2000–2016
- Azerbaijan 2006–2006
- Bangladesh 1994–2018
- Benin 1996–2018
- Bolivia, Plurinational State of 1994–2008
- Brazil 1996–1996
- Burkina Faso 1993–2021
- Burundi 2010–2017
- Cambodia 2000–2022
- Cameroon 1991–2022
- Central African Republic 1995–1995
- Chad 1997–2015
- Colombia 1990–2015
- Comoros 1996–2012
- Congo 2005–2012
- Congo, The Democratic Republic of the 2007–2014
- Côte d'Ivoire 1994–2021
- Dominican Republic 1991–2013
- Egypt 1992–2014
- Eritrea 1995–2002
- Eswatini 2007–2007
- Ethiopia 2000–2019
- Gabon 2000–2021
- Gambia 2013–2020
- Ghana 1993–2022
- Guatemala 1995–2015
- Guinea 1999–2021
- Guyana 2005–2009
- Haiti 1995–2017
- Honduras 2006–2012
- India 1993–2021
- Indonesia 1991–2017
- Jordan 1990–2018
- Kazakhstan 1995–1999
- Kenya 1993–2022
- Kyrgyzstan 1997–2012
- Lesotho 2004–2014
- Liberia 2007–2022
- Madagascar 1992–2021
- Malawi 1992–2017
- Maldives 2009–2017
- Mali 1996–2021
- Mauritania 2001–2021
- Moldova, Republic of 2005–2005
- Morocco 1992–2004
- Mozambique 1997–2023
- Myanmar 2016–2016
- Namibia 1992–2013
- Nepal 1996–2022
- Nicaragua 1998–2001
- Niger 1992–2021
- Nigeria 1990–2021
- Pakistan 1991–2018
- Papua New Guinea 2018–2018
- Paraguay 1990–1990
- Peru 1992–2012
- Philippines 1993–2022
- Rwanda 1992–2020
- Sao Tome and Principe 2009–2009
- Senegal 1993–2021
- Sierra Leone 2008–2019
- South Africa 1998–2016
- Tajikistan 2012–2017
- Tanzania, United Republic of 1992–2022
- Timor-Leste 2010–2016
- Togo 1998–2017
- Türkiye 1993–2013
- Turkmenistan 2000–2000
- Uganda 1995–2019
- Ukraine 2007–2007
- Uzbekistan 1996–1996
- Viet Nam 1997–2005
- Yemen 1992–2013
- Zambia 1992–2018
- Zimbabwe 1994–2015
Latest observations
| Country | Period | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mozambique | 2023 | 31.80 | percent |
| Cambodia | 2022 | 31.10 | percent |
| Cameroon | 2022 | 26 | percent |
| Ghana | 2022 | 36.60 | percent |
| Kenya | 2022 | 33.90 | percent |
| Liberia | 2022 | 33.20 | percent |
| Nepal | 2022 | 32.70 | percent |
| Philippines | 2022 | 25.80 | percent |
| Tanzania, United Republic of | 2022 | 28.60 | percent |
| Burkina Faso | 2021 | 13.40 | percent |
Provenance
Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.
Produced by
Demographic & Health Surveys
DHS API, Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program, uri: https://api.dhsprogram.com/#/index.html, note: Indicator code from the original source: HC_HHHD_H_FEM; Indicator name from the original source: Female-headed households, publisher: DHS Program (ICF), type: API, date accessed: 2024-06-14
declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization
Read from
World Bank
World Development Indicators
declared by worldbank in source
Versions
A vintage is a dated publish of the catalog. The current entry is a catalog snapshot; checksums are not recorded yet and are shown as such.
- CurrentCurrent catalog snapshotchecksum not recorded
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Citation
Version: catalog snapshot 2026-11-05. The record labels this as a catalog snapshot because immutable dataset releases are not stored yet.
World Bank (2026). Female headed households. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-female-headed-households (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-05.
@misc{interva-worldbank-female-headed-households,
title = {Female headed households},
author = {World Bank},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-female-headed-households}},
note = {Interva dataset worldbank-female-headed-households; catalog snapshot 2026-11-05},
urldate = {2026-11-07}
}DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.
API access
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