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| 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 average | 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 | ||||||
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+In Japan, both houses of parliament are popularly
elected and women elected to these two houses make up 6.6% of members.
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.