Ratio for female members of parliaments (Ratio of the proportion of women in parliament in the proportion of women in the national population with the age of eligibility as a lower bound boundary), Upper Chamber by country

Regions and income groups

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

• Oceania 1.0%
• Central America 0.9%
• Northern America 0.8%
• Western Europe 0.8%
• Southern Europe 0.7%
• Americas 0.7%
• Latin America and the Caribbean 0.7%
• Developed regions (Europe, Cyprus, Israel, Northern America, Japan, Australia & New Zealand) 0.6%
• Europe and Northern America 0.6%
• Eastern Africa 0.6%
• Landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) 0.6%
• Northern Europe 0.6%
• Europe 0.6%
• South America 0.6%
• Small island developing states (SIDS) 0.6%
• Eastern Asia 0.6%
• World 0.6%
• Middle Africa 0.5%
• Sub-Saharan Africa 0.5%
• Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 0.5%
• United States of America 0.5%
• Southern Africa 0.5%
• Central Asia 0.5%
• Developing regions 0.5%
• Eastern and South-Eastern Asia 0.5%
• Western Asia 0.5%
• Asia 0.5%
• Central and Southern Asia 0.4%
• Africa 0.4%
• South-eastern Asia 0.4%
• Southern Asia 0.4%
• Eastern Europe 0.4%
• Western Africa 0.3%
• Northern Africa and Western Asia 0.2%
• Northern Africa 0.2%