page_title: List of ISU World Standings and Season's World Ranking statistics
section_title: Ladies' singles
hierarchical_section_title: List of ISU World Standings and Season's World Ranking statistics / ISU World Standings for single & pair skating and ice dance / Skaters in the top 3 of the season-end world standings / Ladies' singles
caption_attribution_description: Simple English: The ladies podium at the 2013 World Championships.From left: Carolina Kostner(2nd), Kim Yu-Na(1st), Mao Asada(3rd).
context_page_description: The ISU World Standings and Season's World Ranking are the objective merit-based method used by the International Skating Union for single & pair skating and ice dance, as well as synchronized skating.
  The ISU Council had implemented the former world standings system for single & pair skating and ice dance for several seasons before 2010. The world standings system for synchronized skating and the season's world ranking had not been implemented until 2010. The current Standings and Ranking system has been implemented since the 2010–11 season.
  Eighteen single skaters and nineteen couples have been top of the season-end World Standings since the 2001–02 season. Ten single skaters and eleven couples have holden the Season's World number-one rank since the 2010–11 season.
context_section_description: Chronological
  Records and statistics
  The following table shows the numbers of the skaters who are in the top 3 of the season-end world standings ordered by nation.
  The following table shows the times as season-end No. 1, No. 2 and No.3 by nation.
  The following table shows the skaters who are in the top 3 of the season-end world standings ordered by the sums of the numbers of seasons as season-end No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3.
  The following table shows the skaters who have been in the top 3 of the season-end world standings for at least two consecutive seasons ordered by the sums of the numbers of consecutive seasons as season-end No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3.
caption: ItalyCarolina Kostner (left), South KoreaYuna Kim (middle) and JapanMao Asada (right) at the 2013 World Championships
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