Women in parliament

Share of seats in the national parliament held by women.

measured by: World Bank
originally from: Inter-Parliamentary Union
years covered: 1997–2025
subject: Society

Higher is generally taken as better.

How this is measured

Seats held by women in the single or lower chamber. A clean count rather than an estimate, which is its virtue and its limit: quotas move it quickly, and it says nothing about whether the parliament itself holds any power. Read beside the legislative checks indicator for that.

Ranked for 2025

156 countries and territories have a figure for 2025. This is the most recent year the series covers well; the viewer holds every year from 1997.

#	Country	Region	Women in parl.
1	Rwanda	Sub-Saharan Africa	63.8%
2	Cuba	Americas	55.7%
3	Nicaragua	Americas	54.9%
4	Bolivia	Americas	50.8%
5	Mexico	Americas	50.2%
6	United Arab Emirates	Middle East & North Africa	50.0%
7	Costa Rica	Americas	49.1%
8	Iceland	Europe	46.0%
9	Australia	Asia-Pacific	46.0%
10	New Zealand	Asia-Pacific	45.5%
11	Finland	Europe	45.5%
12	Ecuador	Americas	45.0%
13	Sweden	Europe	45.0%
14	South Africa	Sub-Saharan Africa	44.9%
15	Spain	Europe	44.3%
16	Denmark	Europe	43.6%
17	Netherlands	Europe	43.3%
18	Namibia	Sub-Saharan Africa	42.3%
19	Ethiopia	Sub-Saharan Africa	41.9%
20	Peru	Americas	41.5%
21	Belgium	Europe	41.3%
22	Argentina	Americas	41.2%
23	Senegal	Sub-Saharan Africa	41.2%
24	United Kingdom	Europe	40.5%
25	Norway	Europe	40.2%
26	Burundi	Sub-Saharan Africa	39.6%
27	Moldova	Eurasia	39.6%
28	Tanzania	Sub-Saharan Africa	39.5%
29	North Macedonia	Europe	39.2%
30	Angola	Sub-Saharan Africa	39.1%
31	Switzerland	Europe	39.0%
32	Armenia	Eurasia	38.3%
33	Mozambique	Sub-Saharan Africa	38.3%
34	Uzbekistan	Eurasia	38.0%
35	Dominican Republic	Americas	37.4%
36	Serbia	Europe	37.2%
37	France	Europe	36.2%
38	Guyana	Americas	36.1%
39	Portugal	Europe	35.7%
40	Slovenia	Europe	35.6%
41	Austria	Europe	35.5%
42	Timor-Leste	Asia-Pacific	35.4%
43	Albania	Europe	35.0%
44	Luxembourg	Europe	35.0%
45	Uganda	Sub-Saharan Africa	34.1%
46	Belarus	Eurasia	33.9%
47	Cameroon	Sub-Saharan Africa	33.9%
48	Chile	Americas	33.5%
49	Chad	Sub-Saharan Africa	33.5%
50	Czechia	Europe	33.5%
51	Kyrgyzstan	Eurasia	33.3%
52	Croatia	Europe	33.1%
53	Italy	Europe	32.8%
54	Germany	Europe	32.4%
55	South Sudan	Sub-Saharan Africa	32.4%
56	Venezuela	Americas	32.1%
57	El Salvador	Americas	31.7%
58	Vietnam	Asia-Pacific	31.4%
59	Suriname	Americas	31.4%
60	Uruguay	Americas	31.3%
61	Poland	Europe	31.3%
62	Equatorial Guinea	Sub-Saharan Africa	31.0%
63	Latvia	Europe	31.0%
64	Canada	Americas	30.3%
65	Jamaica	Americas	30.2%
66	Zimbabwe	Sub-Saharan Africa	30.1%
67	Mali	Sub-Saharan Africa	30.1%
68	Honduras	Americas	29.7%
69	Guinea	Sub-Saharan Africa	29.6%
70	Sierra Leone	Sub-Saharan Africa	29.5%
71	Colombia	Americas	29.4%
72	United States	Americas	28.9%
73	Estonia	Europe	28.7%
74	Tajikistan	Eurasia	28.6%
75	Lithuania	Europe	28.4%
76	Philippines	Asia-Pacific	28.3%
77	Montenegro	Europe	27.2%
78	Egypt	Middle East & North Africa	26.8%
79	Benin	Sub-Saharan Africa	26.6%
80	China	Asia-Pacific	26.5%
81	Djibouti	Sub-Saharan Africa	26.2%
82	Turkmenistan	Eurasia	25.6%
83	Iraq	Middle East & North Africa	25.5%
84	Mongolia	Asia-Pacific	25.4%
85	Ireland	Europe	25.3%
86	Bulgaria	Europe	25.0%
87	Lesotho	Sub-Saharan Africa	25.0%
88	Morocco	Middle East & North Africa	24.3%
89	Israel	Middle East & North Africa	24.2%
90	Trinidad and Tobago	Americas	23.8%
91	Paraguay	Americas	23.8%
92	Kenya	Sub-Saharan Africa	23.4%
93	Slovakia	Europe	23.3%
94	Mauritania	Sub-Saharan Africa	23.3%
95	Greece	Europe	22.9%
96	Romania	Europe	22.4%
97	Laos	Asia-Pacific	22.0%
98	Indonesia	Asia-Pacific	21.9%
99	Panama	Americas	21.7%
100	Eswatini	Sub-Saharan Africa	21.6%
101	Gabon	Sub-Saharan Africa	21.6%
102	Malawi	Sub-Saharan Africa	21.4%
103	Ukraine	Eurasia	21.2%
104	Azerbaijan	Eurasia	20.8%
105	South Korea	Asia-Pacific	20.3%
106	Guatemala	Americas	20.0%
107	Turkey	Eurasia	19.9%
108	Saudi Arabia	Middle East & North Africa	19.9%
109	Thailand	Asia-Pacific	19.6%
110	Niger	Sub-Saharan Africa	19.6%
111	Jordan	Middle East & North Africa	19.6%
112	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Europe	19.0%
113	Somalia	Sub-Saharan Africa	19.0%
114	Bahamas	Americas	18.4%
115	Kazakhstan	Eurasia	18.4%
116	Burkina Faso	Sub-Saharan Africa	18.3%
117	Brazil	Americas	18.1%
118	North Korea	Asia-Pacific	17.6%
119	Pakistan	Asia-Pacific	17.0%
120	Georgia	Eurasia	16.8%
121	Libya	Middle East & North Africa	16.5%
122	Russia	Eurasia	16.4%
123	Tunisia	Middle East & North Africa	15.8%
124	Japan	Asia-Pacific	15.7%
125	Hungary	Europe	15.6%
126	Togo	Sub-Saharan Africa	15.0%
127	Zambia	Sub-Saharan Africa	15.0%
128	Congo	Sub-Saharan Africa	14.6%
129	Ghana	Sub-Saharan Africa	14.5%
130	Cyprus	Europe	14.3%
131	Madagascar	Sub-Saharan Africa	14.1%
132	India	Asia-Pacific	13.8%
133	Cambodia	Asia-Pacific	13.6%
134	Malaysia	Asia-Pacific	13.5%
135	Côte d'Ivoire	Sub-Saharan Africa	13.4%
136	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Sub-Saharan Africa	12.8%
137	Belize	Americas	12.5%
138	Brunei	Asia-Pacific	11.4%
139	Central African Republic	Sub-Saharan Africa	11.4%
140	Liberia	Sub-Saharan Africa	11.0%
141	Sri Lanka	Asia-Pacific	9.8%
142	Fiji	Asia-Pacific	9.1%
143	Botswana	Sub-Saharan Africa	9.0%
144	Gambia	Sub-Saharan Africa	8.6%
145	Algeria	Middle East & North Africa	7.9%
146	Lebanon	Middle East & North Africa	6.3%
147	Qatar	Middle East & North Africa	6.1%
148	Solomon Islands	Asia-Pacific	6.0%
149	Syria	Middle East & North Africa	4.9%
150	Iran	Middle East & North Africa	4.9%
151	Bhutan	Asia-Pacific	4.3%
152	Nigeria	Sub-Saharan Africa	4.2%
153	Papua New Guinea	Asia-Pacific	2.7%
154	Vanuatu	Asia-Pacific	1.9%
155	Oman	Middle East & North Africa	0.0%
156	Yemen	Middle East & North Africa	0.0%

Data by year

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Source and licence

World Bank — World Development Indicators

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