Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament (%) - MDGs - Millenium Development Goals - African Development Indicators

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Women in parliaments are the percentage of parliamentary seats in a single or lower chamber occupied by women. Source: United Nations, Women's Indicators and Statistics database.

Rank	Country	Value
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament (%) - MDGs - Millenium Development Goals - African Development Indicators (2008)
1	Rwanda	56.30
2	Angola	37.30
3	Mozambique	34.80
4	South Africa	33
5	Uganda	30.70
6	Burundi	30.50
7	Tanzania	30.40
8	Namibia	26.90
9	Lesotho	25
10	Seychelles	23.50
11	Tunisia	22.80
12	Mauritania	22.10
13	Senegal	22
14	Eritrea	22
15	Ethiopia	21.90
16	Guinea	19.30
17	Cape Verde	18.10
18	Sudan	18.10
19	Sub-Saharan Africa	18.08
20	Mauritius	17.10
21	Gabon	16.70
22	Burkina Faso	15.30
23	Zimbabwe	15.20
24	Zambia	15.20
25	Guinea-Bissau	14
26	Cameroon	13.90
27	Djibouti	13.80
28	Sierra Leone	13.20
29	Malawi	13
30	Liberia	12.50
31	Niger	12.40
32	Togo	11.10
33	Botswana	11.10
34	Ghana	10.90
35	Benin	10.80
36	Morocco	10.50
37	Central African Republic	10.50
38	Mali	10.20
39	Gambia	9.40
40	Kenya	8.90
41	Ivory Coast	8.90
42	Democratic Republic of the Congo	8.40
43	Somalia	8.20
44	Madagascar	7.90
45	Libya	7.70
46	Algeria	7.70
47	Republic of the Congo	7.30
48	Nigeria	7
49	Equatorial Guinea	6
50	Chad	5.20
51	Comoros	3
52	Egypt	1.80
53	Sao Tome and Principe	1.80

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Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament (%) - MDGs - Millenium Development Goals - African Development Indicators

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