Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments (%) - Gender Statistics

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

Rank	Country	Value
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments (%) - Gender Statistics (2010)
1	Rwanda	56.30
2	Sweden	45
3	South Africa	44.50
4	Cuba	43.20
5	Iceland	42.90
6	Netherlands	40.70
7	Finland	40
8	Norway	39.60
9	Belgium	39.30
10	Mozambique	39.20
11	Angola	38.60
12	Costa Rica	38.60
13	Argentina	38.50
14	Denmark	38
15	Spain	36.60
16	Andorra	35.70
17	Belarus	35
18	New Zealand	33.60
19	Nepal	33.20
20	Germany	32.80
21	Macedonia	32.50
22	Ecuador	32.30
23	Burundi	32.10
24	Uganda	31.50
25	Tanzania	30.70
26	Guyana	30
27	Timor-Leste	29.20
28	Switzerland	29
29	Trinidad and Tobago	28.60
30	Austria	27.90
31	Ethiopia	27.80
32	Tunisia	27.60
33	Peru	27.50
34	Portugal	27.40
35	Mexico	26.20
36	Monaco	26.10
37	Vietnam	25.80
38	Euro area	25.75
39	Kyrgyzstan	25.60
40	Sudan	25.60
41	Bolivia	25.40
42	Iraq	25.20
43	Laos	25.20
44	Australia	24.70
45	Namibia	24.40
46	High income: OECD	24.24
47	European Union	24.21
48	Lesotho	24.20
49	Liechtenstein	24
50	Moldova	23.80
51	Latin America & Caribbean (developing only)	23.60
52	Croatia	23.50
53	Seychelles	23.50
54	Latin America & Caribbean (all income levels)	23.43
55	Singapore	23.40
56	OECD members	23.35
57	High income	22.90
58	Estonia	22.80
59	Senegal	22.70
60	United Arab Emirates	22.50
61	Pakistan	22.20
62	Canada	22.10
63	Mauritania	22.10
64	Europe & Central Asia (all income levels)	22.03
65	Latvia	22
66	United Kingdom	22
67	Czech Republic	22
68	Eritrea	22
69	Uzbekistan	22
70	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	21.70
71	Serbia	21.60
72	Philippines	21.40
73	Italy	21.30
74	China	21.30
75	Cambodia	21.10
76	Malawi	20.80
77	Dominican Republic	20.80
78	Bulgaria	20.80
79	Nicaragua	20.70
80	Poland	20
81	Luxembourg	20
82	Least developed countries: UN classification	19.86
83	Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)	19.57
84	Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)	19.45
85	Dominica	19.20
86	South Asia	19.18
87	Low income	19.12
88	Lithuania	19.10
89	Upper middle income	19.04
90	Tajikistan	19
91	North America	19
92	Bosnia and Herzegovina	19
93	El Salvador	19
94	France	18.90
95	Mauritius	18.80
96	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	18.73
97	Bangladesh	18.60
98	East Asia & Pacific (developing only)	18.51
99	East Asia & Pacific (all income levels)	18.33
100	Israel	18.30
101	Sao Tome and Principe	18.20
102	Cape Verde	18.10
103	Honduras	18
104	Indonesia	18
105	Low & middle income	17.97
106	Kazakhstan	17.80
107	Middle income	17.57
108	Greece	17.30
109	United States	16.80
110	Turkmenistan	16.80
111	San Marino	16.70
112	Lower middle income	16.66
113	Albania	16.40
114	Slovakia	15.30
115	Burkina Faso	15.30
116	Europe & Central Asia (developing only)	15.22
117	Uruguay	15.20
118	Zimbabwe	15
119	North Korea	14.70
120	South Korea	14.70
121	Gabon	14.70
122	Slovenia	14.40
123	Chile	14.20
124	Zambia	14
125	Russia	14
126	Ireland	13.90
127	Cameroon	13.90
128	Djibouti	13.80
129	Swaziland	13.60
130	Grenada	13.30
131	Thailand	13.30
132	Jamaica	13.30
133	Sierra Leone	13.20
134	Paraguay	12.50
135	Cyprus	12.50
136	Liberia	12.50
137	Syria	12.40
138	Bahamas	12.20
139	Guatemala	12
140	Romania	11.40
141	Azerbaijan	11.40
142	Japan	11.30
143	Montenegro	11.10
144	St. Lucia	11.10
145	Togo	11.10
146	Benin	10.80
147	India	10.80
148	Arab World	10.73
149	Antigua and Barbuda	10.50
150	Morocco	10.50
151	Mali	10.20
152	Barbados	10
153	Equatorial Guinea	10
154	Guinea-Bissau	10
155	Malaysia	9.90
156	Kenya	9.80
157	Suriname	9.80
158	Central African Republic	9.60
159	Middle East & North Africa (developing only)	9.32
160	Armenia	9.20
161	Hungary	9.10
162	Turkey	9.10
163	Middle East & North Africa (all income levels)	8.98
164	Ivory Coast	8.90
165	Brazil	8.80
166	Malta	8.70
167	Bhutan	8.50
168	Panama	8.50
169	Democratic Republic of the Congo	8.40
170	Ghana	8.30
171	Western Samoa	8.20
172	Ukraine	8
173	Botswana	7.90
174	Libya	7.70
175	Kuwait	7.70
176	Algeria	7.70
177	Gambia	7.50
178	Republic of the Congo	7.30
179	Nigeria	7
180	Somalia	6.80
181	St. Kitts and Nevis	6.70
182	Georgia	6.50
183	Maldives	6.50
184	Jordan	6.40
185	Sri Lanka	5.30
186	Chad	5.20
187	Kiribati	4.30
188	Haiti	4.10
189	Mongolia	3.90
190	Vanuatu	3.80
191	Tonga	3.10
192	Lebanon	3.10
193	Comoros	3
194	Marshall Islands	3
195	Iran	2.80
196	Bahrain	2.50
197	Egypt	1.80
198	Papua New Guinea	0.90
199	Yemen	0.30
200	Solomon Islands	0
201	Saudi Arabia	0
202	Qatar	0
203	Micronesia	0
204	Palau	0
205	Oman	0
206	Belize	0
207	Tuvalu	0

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Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments (%) - Gender Statistics

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