| Ranking | Name | Country | Rating (July 1st) | Rating (May 1st) | rating (1st March) | Career Highest |
| 1 | Judit Polgar | HUN | 2682 | 2682 | 2682 | 2735 |
| 2 | Humpy Koneru | IND | 2600 | 2622 | 2622 | 2623 |
| 3 | Hou Yifan | CHN | 2577 | 2589 | 2570 | 2590 |
| 4 | Tatiana Kosintseva | RUS | 2562 | 2534 | 2524 | 2562 |
| 5 | Antoaneta Stefanova | BUL | 2560 | 2560 | 2555 | 2560 |
| 6 | Nadezhda Kosintseva | RUS | 2551 | 2553 | 2554 | 2554 |
| 7 | Kateryna Lahno | UKR | 2535 | 2527 | 2518 | 2535 |
| 8 | Anna Muzychuk | SLO | 2527 | 2529 | 2533 | 2542 |
| 9 | Viktorija Cmilyte | LTU | 2527 | 2514 | 2485 | 2527 |
| 10 | Marie Sebag | FRA | 2519 | 2524 | 2506 | 2533 |
| 11 | Alexandra Kosteniuk | RUS | 2519 | 2519 | 2524 | 2540 |
| 12 | Pia Cramling | SWE | 2517 | 2536 | 2523 | 2550 |
| 13 | Maia Chiburdanidze | GEO | 2514 | 2514 | 2514 | 2560 |
| 14 | Dronavalli Harika | IND | 2504 | 2491 | 2473 | 2504 |
| 15 | Natalija Pogonina | RUS | 2501 | 2501 | 2496 | 2501 |
Seven of these have at present their career highest rating, noting that curiously Pogonina has achieved 2501 seven times without ever going any higher!
Judit Polgar has been the World's highest ranked female 42 times and is currently 54th on the 'mixed' rating list.
