World Bank · Gender

Female professional and technical workers

Female professional and technical workers refers to the share of professionals and technical workers who are female. Women's share of positions are defined according to the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-88) to include physical, mathematical and engineering science professionals (and associate professionals), life science and health professionals (and associate professionals), teaching professionals (and associate professionals) and other professionals and associate professionals.

Coverage
99 of 238 countries
Latest data
2006
Series
99
Unit
percent
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Retrieved
2026-11-05
Indicator
female-professional-and-technical-workers
Interva ID
worldbank-female-professional-and-technical-workers

Recency

stale

data to 2006; 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

0%

Latest observation is 2006; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 19 year(s) behind (stale).

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

100%

0 of 99 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 100% 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

Measured

Covers 99 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

Measured

The median series has 1 observations; the earliest begins in 2006.

Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.

Revisions

Measured

No 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 assessed

No declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Validity

Not assessed

No field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Consistency

Not assessed

Cross-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 professional and technical workers for each of the 99 countries it covers, with the full history.

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Algeria200635percent
Argentina200654percent
Armenia200665percent
Australia200656percent
Austria200648percent
Azerbaijan200651percent
Bahrain200633percent
Bangladesh200622percent
Belgium200649percent
Bolivia, Plurinational State of200640percent

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    Not named — the declaration is kept verbatim

    Gender, Institutions and Development Database, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), web site: http://www.oecd.org/document/16/0,3343,en_2649_33935_39323280_1_1_1_1,00.html.

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    Gender Statistics

    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 professional and technical workers. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-female-professional-and-technical-workers (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-05.

BibTeX
@misc{interva-worldbank-female-professional-and-technical-workers,
  title        = {Female professional and technical workers},
  author       = {World Bank},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-female-professional-and-technical-workers}},
  note         = {Interva dataset worldbank-female-professional-and-technical-workers; 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.

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