Did you know that Canada ranks 52nd in the world for the percentage of women's representation in Parliament?
The data in the table was compiled by the Inter-Parliamentary Union on the basis of information provided by National Parliaments by 31 January 2011. 188 countries are classified by descending order of the percentage of women in the lower or single House. We've got to do something about this!
| Elections | Seats* | ||||||||
| 1 | Rwanda | ||||||||
| 2 | Sweden | ||||||||
| 3 | South Africa 1 | ||||||||
| 4 | Cuba | ||||||||
| 5 | Iceland | ||||||||
| 6 | Netherlands | ||||||||
| 7 | Finland | ||||||||
| 8 | Norway | ||||||||
| 9 | Belgium | ||||||||
| 10 | Mozambique | ||||||||
| 11 | Angola | ||||||||
| " | Costa Rica | ||||||||
| 12 | Argentina | ||||||||
| 13 | Denmark | ||||||||
| 14 | Spain | ||||||||
| 15 | United Republic of Tanzania | ||||||||
| 16 | Andorra | ||||||||
| 17 | New Zealand | ||||||||
| 18 | Nepal | ||||||||
| 19 | Germany | ||||||||
| 20 | The F.Y.R. of Macedonia | ||||||||
| 21 | Ecuador | ||||||||
| 22 | Burundi | ||||||||
| 23 | Belarus | ||||||||
| 24 | Uganda | ||||||||
| 25 | Guyana | ||||||||
| 26 | Timor-Leste | ||||||||
| 27 | Switzerland | ||||||||
| 28 | Trinidad and Tobago | ||||||||
| 29 | Austria | ||||||||
| 30 | Ethiopia | ||||||||
| 31 | Afghanistan | ||||||||
| 32 | Tunisia | ||||||||
| 33 | Peru | ||||||||
| 34 | Portugal | ||||||||
| 35 | Mexico | ||||||||
| 36 | Monaco | ||||||||
| 37 | Viet Nam | ||||||||
| 38 | Sudan | ||||||||
| 39 | Bolivia | ||||||||
| 40 | Iraq | ||||||||
| " | Lao People's Democratic Republic | ||||||||
| 41 | Australia | ||||||||
| 42 | Namibia | ||||||||
| 43 | Lesotho | ||||||||
| 44 | Liechtenstein | ||||||||
| 45 | Croatia | ||||||||
| " | Seychelles | ||||||||
| 46 | Singapore | ||||||||
| 47 | Kyrgyzstan | ||||||||
| 48 | Estonia | ||||||||
| 49 | Senegal | ||||||||
| 50 | United Arab Emirates | ||||||||
| 51 | Pakistan | ||||||||
| 52 | Canada |
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