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WORLD STATISTICS

Government

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

percent of seats. Produced by Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).
Indicator code
SG.GEN.PARL.ZS
Unit
percent of seats
Frequency
annual
Default classification
Latest available
Original producer
Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
Distributed by
World Bank — World Development Indicators
License
CC BY 4.0

World trend

1997 – 2025

Highest

Most recent year per country (within 5 years of the latest).

  1. 1Rwanda64%2025
  2. 2Cuba56%2025
  3. 3Nicaragua55%2025
  4. 4Bolivia51%2025
  5. 5Mexico50%2025
  6. 6Andorra50%2025
  7. 8Costa Rica49%2025
  8. 9Iceland46%2025
  9. 10Australia46%2025

Lowest

Most recent year per country (within 5 years of the latest).

  1. 190Oman0.00%2025
  2. 189Tuvalu0.00%2025
  3. 188Yemen, Rep.0.00%2025
  4. 187Vanuatu1.92%2025
  5. 186Papua New Guinea2.70%2025
  6. 185Kuwait3.08%2023
  7. 184Maldives3.23%2025
  8. 183Tonga3.85%2025
  9. 182Nigeria4.21%2025
  10. 181Bhutan4.26%2025

Revision history

Changes to previously published values detected during imports.

No revisions recorded since the first import.