Brunei Darussalam's female share of employment in senior and middle management (%) was 41.78% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 4.35 percentage points from 37.43% in 2020.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 41.78% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 37.43% | 2020 |
| Highest | 41.78% | 2025 |
| Lowest | 32.26% | 2019 |
| Average since 2017 | 36.9% | 2017–2025 |
| First recorded | 32.51% | 2014 |
Over five years it is up 4.35 percentage points from 37.43% in 2020. Since 2014 it is up 9.27 percentage points from 32.51% in 2014. The World Bank has no value for 2 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.
What the numbers say
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 6.48 percentage points in 2023 and the biggest yearly fall was 8.63 percentage points in 2022. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2017 to 2025 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 20% of the movement over 9 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2025, Brunei Darussalam had the 10th highest value of the 33 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
Closest to Brunei Darussalam in the 2025 ranking
- El Salvador — 7th of 33: 43.84%
- Mongolia — 8th of 33: 43.05%
- Colombia — 9th of 33: 41.9%
- Russian Federation — 11th of 33: 41.72%
- Poland — 12th of 33: 40.57%
- United Kingdom — 13th of 33: 40.52%
What this measures
The female share of employment in senior and middle management conveys the number of women in management as a percentage of employment in management. Employment in management is defined based on the International Standard Classification of Occupations. This series refers to senior and middle management only, thus excluding junior management (category 1 in both ISCO-08 and ISCO-88 minus category 14 in ISCO-08 and minus category 13 in ISCO-88).
Limitations: The main limitation of this indicator is that it fails to capture the differences in the levels of responsibility of women in their respective managerial position, or the importance of the enterprises and organizations in which they are employed. Its quality is also significantly impacted by the reliability of the employment statistics by occupation at the two-digit level of the ISCO. Whenever data at the two-digit level of the ISCO are not available, data at the one-digit level could be used as a proxy, referring only to major group 1 of ISCO-08 or ISCO-88, rather than to also refer to major group 1 minus category 14 of ISCO-08 or major group 1 minus category 13 of ISCO-88.
All 10 values
| Year | Female share of employment in senior and middle management (%) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 41.78 |
| 2024 | 36.43 |
| 2023 | 38.99 |
| 2022 | 32.51 |
| 2021 | 41.14 |
| 2020 | 37.43 |
| 2019 | 32.26 |
| 2018 | 34.55 |
| 2017 | 36.97 |
| 2016 | no data |
| 2015 |
Female share of employment in senior and middle management (%) in nearby economies
More social protection & labor data for Brunei Darussalam
- Net migration — 0 (2025)
- Labor force participation rate for ages 15-24, female (%) (modeled ILO estimate) — 26.39% (2025)
- Labor force participation rate for ages 15-24, male (%) (modeled ILO estimate) — 42.8% (2025)
- Labor force participation rate for ages 15-24, total (%) (modeled ILO estimate) — 34.94% (2025)
- Labor force participation rate, female (% of female population ages 15-64) (modeled ILO estimate) — 59.76% (2025)
- Labor force participation rate, male (% of male population ages 15-64) (modeled ILO estimate) — 77.93% (2025)
- Labor force participation rate, total (% of total population ages 15-64) (modeled ILO estimate)
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Questions people ask
- What is Brunei Darussalam's female share of employment in senior and middle management (%)?
- 41.78% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 2014?
- It is up 9.27 percentage points from 32.51% in 2014. The highest value was 41.78% in 2025 and the lowest 32.26% in 2019.
- How does Brunei Darussalam rank?
- 10th highest of 33 economies with data for 2025.
- Where does this data come from?
- The World Bank's World Development Indicators, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Labour Market-related SDG Indicators database (ILOSDG), International Labour Organization (ILO), uri: https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/bulk/, publisher: ILOSTAT, type: external database, date accessed: September 28, 2026.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SL.EMP.SMGT.FE.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Labour Market-related SDG Indicators database (ILOSDG), International Labour Organization (ILO), uri: https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/bulk/, publisher: ILOSTAT, type: external database, date accessed: September 28, 2026 Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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