Statistics for Longest Serving Female Heads of Government

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Time in Office	Years	Country	Answer	% Correct
16y 16d	2005-2021	Germany	Angela Merkel	97%
16y 15d	1966-'77, 1980-'84	India	Indira Gandhi	94%
11y 208d	1979-1990	United Kingdom	Margaret Thatcher	91%
4y 233d	1988-'90, 1993-'96	Pakistan	Benazir Bhutto	68%
5y 78d	1969-1974	Israel	Golda Meir	68%
5y 243d	2011-2016	Brazil	Dilma Rousseff	50%
4y 301d	2016-2021	Myanmar	Aung San Suu Kyi	47%
8y	2007-2015	Argentina	Cristina Fernández de Kirchner	47%
6y 126d	1986-1992	Philippines	Corazon Aquino	44%
18y 10d	1996-'01, 2009-	Bangladesh	Sheikh Hasina	38%
5y 208d	2016-	Taiwan	Tsai Ing-wen	35%
8y	2006-'10, 2014-'18	Chile	Michelle Bachelet	32%
12y 6d	2006-2018	Liberia	Ellen Johnson Sirleaf	29%
8y 350d	1999-2008	New Zealand	Helen Clark	26%
11y 304d	1960-'65, 1970-'77	Ceylon/Sri Lanka	Sirimavo Bandaranaike	26%
7y 363d	2013-2021	Norway	Erna Solberg	24%
4y 168d	2017-	Serbia	Ana Brnabić	21%
9y 152d	1986-'89, 1990-'96	Norway	Gro Harlem Brundtland	21%
10y 60d	1991-'96, 2001-'06	Bangladesh	Khaleda Zia	21%
9y 161d	2001-2010	Philippines	Gloria Macapagal Arroyo	18%
5y 223d	2006-'07, 2012-'16	Jamaica	Portia Simpson-Miller	18%
6y 260d	1990-1997	Nicaragua	Violeta Chamorro	12%
11y 7d	1994-2005	Sri Lanka	Chandrika Kumaratunga	9%
14y 328d	1980-1995	Dominica	Dame Eugenia Charles	9%
5y 106d	2010-2015	Trinidad and Tobago	Kamla Persad-Bissessar	6%
5y	1999-2004	Panama	Mireya Moscoso	6%