Of 193 country only 16 are ruled by women as indicated in the French newspaper Le Figaro according to the latest UN report in March 15 .
The count for the number of women in power revealed non surprising result when only 16 women where head of the state or a prime minister which make 8.3 percent .
Europe is the ‘’ less worst ‘’ 9 states are being ruled by women from the 48 countries so it is the ‘’less worst of the rest of the world Africa comes second with only 3 women at head of state Asia 2 Australia and the surrounding islands 1 and South America 1 .
Europe
Teresa May , UK Prime Minister
Angela Merkel ; the German chancellor
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović Croatia President
Beata Szydło Poland prime minister
Dalia Grybauskaitė ; The Lithuanian President
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca ; the President of Malta
Doris Leuthard ; President of the Swiss Confederation
Kersti Kaljulaid the President of Estonia
Africa
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf The president of Liberia
Ameenah Gurib : The president of the state of Maurisius
Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila The Namibian Prime Minister
Asia
Sheikh Hasina ; Bangladesh Prime Minster
Bidhya Devi Bhandari ; Nepali President
South America
Michelle Bachelet The President of Chili
Australia and the Pacific
Hilda Heine The President of the Marshal Islands .
Along with the numbers of presidents of the states the percentage of women ministers were surprising notably Bulgaria France and Nicaragua were at the head of the list wit close 53 percent of women . Countries like Rwanda Uganda and Uruguay took advanced places between the first 20 surpassing Italy and Switzerland .