Number of seats held by women in national parliaments (number) by country

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

• World 10,095
• Developing regions 6,617
• Developed regions (Europe, Cyprus, Israel, Northern America, Japan, Australia & New Zealand) 3,478
• Europe and Northern America 3,242
• Europe 3,013
• Africa 2,719
• Asia 2,453
• Sub-Saharan Africa 2,379
• Sub-Saharan Africa (inc. Sudan) 2,249
• Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 1,760
• Americas 1,749
• Eastern and South-Eastern Asia 1,684
• Latin America and the Caribbean 1,520
• Landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) 1,505
• Eastern Africa 1,265
• Eastern Asia 1,077
• Eastern Asia (excluding Japan) 931
• Northern Europe 841
• Southern Europe 800
• Northern Africa and Western Asia 768
• Western Europe 723
• South America 667
• Eastern Europe 649
• Small island developing States (SIDS) 623
• South-Eastern Asia 607
• Western Africa 454
• Central America 438
• Western Asia 428
• Middle Africa 386
• Northern Africa (exc. Sudan) 377
• Central and Southern Asia 341
• Northern Africa 340
• Western Asia (exc. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Israel and Georgia) 307
• Southern Africa 274
• Northern America 229
• Caucasus and Central Asia 229
• Southern Asia 188
• Oceania 161
• Central Asia 153
• United States of America 125