Women

in national parliaments

Situation as of 1st February 2019

The data in the table below has been compiled by the Inter-Parliamentary Union on the basis of information provided by National Parliaments by 1st February 2019. 193 countries are classified by descending order of the percentage of women in the lower or single House. Comparative data on the world and regional averages as well as data concerning the two regional parliamentary assemblies elected by direct suffrage can be found on separate pages. You can use the PARLINE database to view detailed results of parliamentary elections by country.

From March 2019, monthly rankings of the percentage of women in parliament are now being published on New Parline, the IPUs open data platform: https://data.ipu.org/women-ranking

Consult the archive of statistical data on the percentage of women in national parliaments.