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2007/2008 Human Development Report

29Gender empowerment measure
Seats in parliament (% held by women) Excel Export results to Excel

HDI Rank Country 1
1 Iceland 31.7
2 Norway 37.9
3 Australia 28.3
4 Canada 24.3
5 Ireland 14.2
6 Sweden 47.3
7 Switzerland 24.8
8 Japan 11.1
9 Netherlands 36.0
10 France 13.9
11 Finland 42.0
12 United States 16.3
13 Spain 30.5
14 Denmark 36.9
15 Austria 31.0
16 United Kingdom 19.3
17 Belgium 35.7
18 Luxembourg 23.3
19 New Zealand 32.2
20 Italy 16.1
21 Hong Kong, China (SAR) ..
22 Germany 30.6
23 Israel 14.2
24 Greece 13.0
25 Singapore 24.5
26 Korea (Republic of) 13.4
27 Slovenia 10.8
28 Cyprus 14.3
29 Portugal 21.3
30 Brunei Darussalam .. 2
31 Barbados 17.6
32 Czech Republic 15.3
33 Kuwait 3.1 3
34 Malta 9.2
35 Qatar 0
36 Hungary 10.4
37 Poland 19.1
38 Argentina 36.8
39 United Arab Emirates 22.5
40 Chile 12.7
41 Bahrain 13.8
42 Slovakia 19.3
43 Lithuania 24.8
44 Estonia 21.8
45 Latvia 19.0
46 Uruguay 10.8
47 Croatia 21.7
48 Costa Rica 38.6
49 Bahamas 22.2
50 Seychelles 23.5
51 Cuba 36.0
52 Mexico 21.5
53 Bulgaria 22.1
54 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0
55 Tonga 3.3
56 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 7.7
57 Antigua and Barbuda 13.9
58 Oman 7.8
59 Trinidad and Tobago 25.4
60 Romania 10.7
61 Saudi Arabia 0
62 Panama 16.7
63 Malaysia 13.1
64 Belarus 29.8
65 Mauritius 17.1
66 Bosnia and Herzegovina 14.0
67 Russian Federation 8.0
68 Albania 7.1
69 Macedonia (TFYR) 28.3
70 Brazil 9.3
71 Dominica 12.9
72 Saint Lucia 10.3 4
73 Kazakhstan 8.6
74 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 18.6
75 Colombia 9.7
76 Ukraine 8.7
77 Samoa 6.1
78 Thailand 8.7
79 Dominican Republic 17.1
80 Belize 11.9
81 China 20.3
82 Grenada 28.6
83 Armenia 9.2
84 Turkey 4.4
85 Suriname 25.5
86 Jordan 7.9
87 Peru 29.2
88 Lebanon 4.7
89 Ecuador 25.0
90 Philippines 22.1
91 Tunisia 19.3
92 Fiji .. 5
93 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 18.2
94 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 4.1
95 Paraguay 9.6
96 Georgia 9.4
97 Guyana 29.0
98 Azerbaijan 11.3
99 Sri Lanka 4.9
100 Maldives 12.0
101 Jamaica 13.6
102 Cape Verde 15.3
103 El Salvador 16.7
104 Algeria 6.2
105 Viet Nam 25.8
106 Occupied Palestinian Territories ..
107 Indonesia 11.3
108 Syrian Arab Republic 12.0
109 Turkmenistan 16.0
110 Nicaragua 18.5
111 Moldova 21.8
112 Egypt 3.8
113 Uzbekistan 16.4
114 Mongolia 6.6
115 Honduras 23.4
116 Kyrgyzstan 0
117 Bolivia 14.6
118 Guatemala 8.2
119 Gabon 13.7
120 Vanuatu 3.8
121 South Africa 32.8 6
122 Tajikistan 19.6
123 Sao Tome and Principe 7.3
124 Botswana 11.1
125 Namibia 26.9
126 Morocco 6.4
127 Equatorial Guinea 18.0
128 India 9.0
129 Solomon Islands 0
130 Lao People's Democratic Republic 25.2
131 Cambodia 11.4
132 Myanmar .. 7
133 Bhutan 2.7
134 Comoros 3.0
135 Ghana 10.9
136 Pakistan 20.4
137 Mauritania 17.6
138 Lesotho 25.0
139 Congo 10.1
140 Bangladesh 15.1 8
141 Swaziland 16.8
142 Nepal 17.3 9
143 Madagascar 8.4
144 Cameroon 8.9
145 Papua New Guinea 0.9
146 Haiti 6.3
147 Sudan 16.4
148 Kenya 7.3
149 Djibouti 10.8
150 Timor-Leste 25.3 10
151 Zimbabwe 22.2
152 Togo 8.6
153 Yemen 0.7
154 Uganda 29.8
155 Gambia 9.4
156 Senegal 19.2
157 Eritrea 22.0
158 Nigeria ..
159 Tanzania (United Republic of) 30.4
160 Guinea 19.3
161 Rwanda 45.3
162 Angola 15.0
163 Benin 8.4
164 Malawi 13.6
165 Zambia 14.6
166 Côte d'Ivoire 8.5
167 Burundi 31.7
168 Congo (Democratic Republic of the) 7.7
169 Ethiopia 21.4
170 Chad 6.5
171 Central African Republic 10.5
172 Mozambique 34.8
173 Mali 10.2
174 Niger 12.4
175 Guinea-Bissau 14.0
176 Burkina Faso 11.7
177 Sierra Leone 14.5

Notes :
1 - Data are as of 31 May 2007, unless otherwise specified. Where there are lower and upper houses, data refer to the weighted average of women's shares of seats in both houses.
2 - Brunei Darussalam does not currently have a parliament.
3 - No woman candidate was elected in the 2006 elections. One woman was appointed to the 16-member cabinet sworn in July 2006. A new cabinet sworn in March 2007 included two women. As cabinet ministers also sit in parliament, there are two women out of a total of 65 members.
4 - No woman candidate was elected in the 2006 elections. However one woman was appointed Speaker of the House and therefore became a member of the House.
5 - Parliament has been dissolved or suspended for an indefinite period.
6 - The figures on the distribution of seats do not include the 36 special rotating delegates appointed on an ad hoc basis. All percentages given are therefore calculated on the basis of the 54 permanent seats.
7 - The parliament elected in 1990 has never been convened nor authorized to sit, and many of its members were detained or forced into exile.
8 - In 2004, the number of seats in parliament was raised from 300 to 345, with the additional 45 seats reserved for women. These reserved seats were filled in September and October 2005, being allocated to political parties in proportion to their share of the national vote received in the 2001 election.
9 - A transitional assembly was established in January 2007. Elections for the constituent assembly will be held in 2007.
10 - The purpose of the elections held on 30 August 2001 was to elect the members of the constituent assembly of Timor-Leste. This body became the national parliament on 20 May 2002, the date on which the country became independent, without any new elections.

Sources :
calculated on the basis of data on parliamentary seats from IPU (Inter-Parliamentary Union). 2007c. Parline Database. Geneva. [www.ipu.org]. Accessed June 2007.
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