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Women are underrepresented in many parliaments around the world

The proportion of women in the German Bundestag is 35.3 percent. photo

© Michael Kappeler/dpa

The proportion of women in parliaments is increasing, but equality is far from being achieved. The German Bundestag is in 47th place in the global ranking.

As a rule, women continue to be underrepresented in national parliaments. As of February 1, 2024, a global average of 26.8 percent, a good quarter of all members of parliament were female, said the Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbaden, citing information from the Interparliamentary Union (IPU). Ten years earlier, the proportion of women was 22.1 percent, and ten years earlier, on January 30, 2004, it was 15.2 percent.

In the global ranking, the German Bundestag was in 47th place out of a total of 184 parliaments with a proportion of 35.3 percent women, as the Federal Office announced on the occasion of International Women’s Day on March 8th. The East African state of Rwanda had the highest proportion of women in its parliament at 61.3 percent. This was followed by Cuba with 55.7 percent, Nicaragua with 53.9 percent and Mexico with 50.4 percent.

Parliaments without female representatives

The parliaments of Andorra and the United Arab Emirates achieved gender parity with 50.0 percent each. According to information, there were no female representatives in the parliaments of Oman, Yemen and the Pacific island state of Tuvalu.

The IPU is a global organization of parliamentary representatives based in Geneva. According to the Federal Statistical Office, the basis of the ranking is the number of representatives in parliament by gender. In two-chamber systems, the data refers to the lower house or the chamber that is directly elected by the people and is usually more powerful.