34.3%
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women's share of AI talent on LinkedIn in the US in 2025
What the chart shows
Men are the majority of AI talent on LinkedIn in all 41 countries with gender data. Women’s share in 2025 ranged from 23.4% in Brazil to 42.0% in Romania, with Singapore (38.0%) and Finland (37.5%) next. In the United States it was 34.3%.
Since 2016 women’s share has risen in 38 of the 41 countries, in most by less than 5 percentage points; in the US by 1.2 points. Saudi Arabia is the exception, up from 14.0% to 33.2%. Chile, Cyprus and Brazil fell.
Key numbers
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Romania | 42.04% |
| Singapore | 38.01% |
| United States | 34.26% |
| Saudi Arabia, 2025 | 33.22% |
| Saudi Arabia, 2016 | 14.05% |
| Brazil | 23.41% |
How to read it
- AI talent: LinkedIn members with at least two AI engineering skills or who have held an AI job. Gender is self-identified or inferred from pronouns or first names; members whose gender could not be inferred are left out.
- Countries where LinkedIn’s gender inference lacked coverage are not included. The data file has yearly values from 2016; this chart shows 2025.
Source: LinkedIn, 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 4.4.25: AI talent representation by gender and geographic area, 2016–25. Chart and text by AI Adoption.
Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.
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Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.
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