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🌍 Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments

Women in parliaments are the percentage of parliamentary seats in a single or lower chamber held by women.

📅 2025📏 %184 entries
63.8% – 38.3%38.0% – 30.2%30.1% – 21.9%21.7% – 14.3%14.1% – 0.0%No data
1
🇷🇼Rwanda
63.8%
2
🇨🇺Cuba
55.7%
3
🇳🇮Nicaragua
54.9%
4
🇧🇴Bolivia
50.8%
5
🇲🇽Mexico
50.2%
6
🇦🇩Andorra
50.0%
7
🇦🇪United Arab Emirates
50.0%
8
🇨🇷Costa Rica
49.1%
9
🇮🇸Iceland
46.0%
10
🇦🇺Australia
46.0%
11
🇲🇨Monaco
45.8%
12
🇳🇿New Zealand
45.5%
13
🇫🇮Finland
45.5%
14
🇪🇨Ecuador
45.0%
15
🇸🇪Sweden
45.0%
16
🇿🇦South Africa
44.9%
17
🇨🇻Cape Verde
44.4%
18
🇪🇸Spain
44.3%
19
🇩🇰Denmark
43.6%
20
🇳🇱Netherlands
43.3%
21
🇳🇦Namibia
42.3%
22
🇪🇹Ethiopia
41.9%
23
🇵🇪Peru
41.5%
24
🇧🇪Belgium
41.3%
25
🇦🇷Argentina
41.2%
26
🇸🇳Senegal
41.2%
27
🇩🇲Dominica
40.6%
28
🇬🇧United Kingdom
40.5%
29
🇳🇴Norway
40.2%
30
🇧🇮Burundi
39.6%
31
🇲🇩Moldova
39.6%
32
🇹🇿Tanzania
39.5%
33
🇲🇰North Macedonia
39.2%
34
🇦🇴Angola
39.1%
35
🇨🇭Switzerland
39.0%
36
🇦🇲Armenia
38.3%
37
🇲🇿Mozambique
38.3%
38
🇺🇿Uzbekistan
38.0%
39
🇩🇴Dominican Republic
37.4%
40
🇷🇸Serbia
37.2%
41
🇫🇷France
36.2%
42
🇬🇾Guyana
36.1%
43
🇵🇹Portugal
35.7%
44
🇸🇮Slovenia
35.6%
45
🇦🇹Austria
35.5%
46
🇹🇱Timor-Leste
35.4%
47
🇦🇱Albania
35.0%
48
🇱🇺Luxembourg
35.0%
49
🇸🇲San Marino
35.0%
50
🇺🇬Uganda
34.1%

Highlights

As of 2025, Rwanda ranks first with 63.8%, followed by Cuba (55.7%) and Nicaragua (54.9%).

Across 184 countries and territories, values run from 63.8% (Rwanda) to 0.0% (Yemen), with a median of 26.3%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 5 from the Americas, 2 from Europe, 1 from Africa, 1 from Asia and 1 from Oceania.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments (%), 2025. Unit: %.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments (%) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026