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.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
193
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    Inter-Parliamentary Union

    Monthly ranking of women in national parliaments, Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), uri: https://data.ipu.org/women-ranking/, note: For the year of 1998, the data is as of August 10, 1998., type: Excel, date accessed: 2026-03-29

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Albania202535percent
Algeria20257.86percent
Andorra202550percent
Angola202539.09percent
Antigua and Barbuda20255.56percent
Argentina202541.25percent
Armenia202538.32percent
Australia202546percent
Austria202535.52percent
Azerbaijan202520.80percent

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