The data in the tables below has been compiled by the Inter-Parliamentary Union on the basis of information provided by National Parliaments by 1st October 2019. The percentages do not take into account the case of parliaments for which no data was available at that date. Comparative data on the percentage of women in each National Parliament as well as data concerning the two regional parliamentary assemblies elected by direct suffrage can be found on separate pages. You can use the PARLINE database to view detailed results of parliamentary elections by country.
Consult the archive of statistical data on women in National Parliaments.
From November 2019, world and regional averages of the percentage of women in parliament are now being published on Parline, the IPU's open data platform: https://data.ipu.org/women-averages

Total MPs 46'218 Gender breakdown known for 46'218 Men 34'878 Women 11'340 Percentage of women 24.5%
Total MPs 39'013 Gender breakdown known for 39'013 Men 29'423 Women 9'590 Percentage of women 24.6%	Total MPs 7'205 Gender breakdown known for 7'205 Men 5'455 Women 1'750 Percentage of women 24.3%

Regions are classified by descending order of the percentage of women in the lower or single House

IPU's regional groupings for calculatiing regional averages of women in national parliaments have been reorganized at 1 January 2019. the current composition of each group may be consulted in this document

	Single House or lower House	Upper House or Senate	Both Houses combined
Nordic countries	44.0%	---	---
Americas	30.6%	31.5%	30.8%
Europe (Nordic countries included)	29.6%	28.5%	29.4%
Europe (Nordic countries not included)	28.1%	28.5%	28.2%
Sub-Saharan Africa	24.1%	23.9%	24.0%
Asia	20.1%	16.7%	19.7%
Middle East and North Africa	17.7%	10.7%	16.8%
Pacific	16.6%	43.8%	19.4%