Seats held by women in national parliaments in North America

22 countries in North America, 2025. Unit: % of seats. World ranking →

First in the ranking
55.7 %
Cuba
Median country
29.9 %
half above, half below
World
27.2 %
World Bank aggregate
Range
5.6 to 55.7
Antigua and Barbuda - Cuba

How to read it

Across 22 countries in North America, the highest value is in Cuba (55.7 %) and the lowest in Antigua and Barbuda (5.6 %).

The median country is at 29.9 %: half are above, half below.

Women in parliaments are the percentage of parliamentary seats in a single or lower chamber held by women.

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Source: Monthly ranking of women in national parliaments, Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), uri: https://data.ipu.org/women-ranking/, note: For the year of 1998, the… · via World Bank WDI (SG.GEN.PARL.ZS) · licence

Women in parliament over time

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Ranking of countries

2025
In chart Share of the highest value
1Cuba55.7
2Nicaragua54.9
3Mexico50.2
4Costa Rica49.1
5Dominica40.6
6Dominican Republic37.4
7El Salvador31.7
8Grenada31.3
9Saint Kitts and Nevis31.3
10Canada30.3
11Jamaica30.2
12Honduras29.7
13United States28.9
14Barbados26.7
15Trinidad and Tobago23.8
16Panama21.7
17Guatemala20.0
18Bahamas18.4
19Saint Vincent and the Grenadines13.3
20Belize12.5
21Saint Lucia10.5
22Antigua and Barbuda5.6
World Bank, WDI · SG.GEN.PARL.ZS · 2025 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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