World Average: 9% of MPs are women
LATIN AMERICA INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES IN & CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES TRANSITION ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cuba 23 Sweden 42 Slovakia 18 Argentina 16 Finland 39 Latvia 15 Nicaragua 16 Norway 39 Estonia 14 Costa Rica 14 Denmark 33 Slovenia 14 Trinidad/Tobago 14 Netherlands 31 Bulgaria 13 Dominican Rep. 12 Austria 21 Poland 13 Jamaica 12 Germany 21 Hungary 11 Colombia 11 New Zealand 21 Kazakhstan 11 El Salvador 11 Canada 18 Czech Rep. 10 Regional average 10 Switzerland 18 Russian Fed. 10 Peru 9 Regional avr. 18 Uzbekistan 10 Chile 8 Spain 16 Regional average 8 Honduras 8 Italy 15 Lithuania 7 Mexico 8 Ireland 12 Albania 6 Panama 8 United States 11 Croatia 6 Bolivia 7 Belgium 9 Georgia 6 Brazil 6 Israel 9 Kyrgyzstan 6 Uruguay 6 Portugal 9 Bosnia/Herzegovina 5 Venezuela 6 United Kingdom 9 Moldova 5 Ecuador 5 Australia 8 Turkmenistan 5 Guatemala 5 France 6 Armenia 4 Haiti 4 Greece 6 Belarus 4 Paraguay 3 Japan+ 3 Macedonia 4 Romania 4 Ukraine 4 Tajikistan 3 Yugoslavia 3 Azerbaijan 2* No parliament
Source: (for ranking tables and most statistics in these pages) Inter-Parliamentary Union, 'Distribution of seats between men and women in the 178 national parliaments existing as at 30 June 1994', Reports and documents, no. 18, add.2 - rev.2, 1994.
Note: For two-chamber parliaments, the figures given on these pages are for the lower or popularly elected chamber.