Female share of FIDE standard-rated players

Female players are 11.09% of the 566,829 standard-rated players on the September 2026 FIDE list (62,865 of 566,829).

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APA

World Chess Federation. (2026). FIDE Standard Rating List — September 2026. Retrieved September 18, 2026, from https://ratings.fide.com/download/standard_rating_list.zip. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_fide_female_share_global_202609

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MLA

World Chess Federation. "FIDE Standard Rating List — September 2026." 2026, https://ratings.fide.com/download/standard_rating_list.zip. Accessed 18 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_fide_female_share_global_202609.

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Chicago

World Chess Federation. "FIDE Standard Rating List — September 2026." 2026. https://ratings.fide.com/download/standard_rating_list.zip. Accessed September 18, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_fide_female_share_global_202609.

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BibTeX

@misc{fide2026fide202609, author = {{World Chess Federation}}, title = {FIDE Standard Rating List — September 2026}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_fide_female_share_global_202609}, note = {Original source: https://ratings.fide.com/download/standard\_rating\_list.zip. Accessed September 18, 2026.} }

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Record last modified 18 September 2026. Value type: actual. Update cadence: monthly. This page is permanently addressable at statorigin.org/stat/stat_fide_female_share_global_202609.