Appendix 1: Women in national parliaments—top 50 ranked countries 2013 with 2008 and 2001 compared


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2013   Lower or single House Upper House or Senate Ranking
    % Female % Female 2008 2001
1 Rwanda 63.8 38.5 1 18
2 Andorra 50.0 - 37 48
3 Cuba 48.9 - 3 12
4 Sweden 45.0 - 2 1
5 Seychelles 43.8 - 40 21
6 Senegal 42.7 - 47 40
7 Finland 42.5 - 4 3
8 South Africa 42.3 32.1 17 10
9 Nicaragua 40.2 - 64 70
10 Iceland 39.7 - 15 6
11 Norway 39.6 - 11 5
12 Mozambique 39.2 - 13 9
13 Denmark 39.1 - 7 2
14 Ecuador 38.7 - 37 46
“ Netherlands 38.7 36.0 5 4
15 Costa Rica 38.6 - 9 31
16 Timor-Leste 38.5 - 25 -
17 Belgium 38.0 40.8 12 22
18 Mexico 36.8 32.8 43 42
19 Argentina 36.5 27.5 6 15
20 Germany 32.8 21.7 18 7
21 Spain 36.0 34.2 10 11
“ United Republic of Tanzania 36.0 - 23 24
22 Uganda 35.0 - 21 ?
23 Angola 34.1 - 8 43
“ The FYR of Macedonia 34.1 - 20 91
24 Austria 33.3 29.0 29 13
“ Grenada 33.3 15.4 86 14
25 Serbia 33.2 - 51 -
26 New Zealand 32.2 - 14 8
“ Slovenia 32.2 7.5 86 53
27 Algeria 31.6 7.0 113 106
28 Zimbabwe 31.5 47.5 77 67
29 Italy 31.4 29.0 52 69
30 Guyana 31.3 - 24 34
“ Portugal 31.3 - 27 33
31 Cameroon 31.1 20.0 83 97
32 Switzerland 31.0 19.6 26 23
33 Burundi 30.5 46.3 22 47
34 Trinidad and Tobago 28.6 22.6 31 58
35 Luxembourg 28.3 - 42 40
36 Ethiopia 27.8 16.3 48 84
37 Afghanistan 27.7 27.5 28 -
38 Philippines 27.3 25.0 55 ?
39 France 26.9 22.2 65 59
40 Lesotho 26.7 27.3 37 104
“ Tunisia 26.7 - 44 57
41 Belarus 26.6 35.1 19 65
42 South Sudan 26.5 10.0 - -
43 El Salvador 26.2 - 72 71
44 Australia 26.0 41.3 32 20
45 Bolivia 25.4 47.2 71 57
46 Iraq 25.2 - 35 85
47

Lao People’s Democratic Republic

 25.0 - 36 27
48 Canada 24.7 37.9 46 26
49 Bulgaria 24.6 - 50 16
“ Sudan 24.6 17.9 66 70
50 Namibia 24.4 26.9 30 19
“ Viet Nam 24.4 - 33 17

Source: Inter-Parliamentary Union, Women in national parliaments, 1 December 2013, 31 December 2008 and 12 October 2001, accessed 25 February 2014.

 

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