Brussels: Europe and the Arabs
Last year, women held a third (33.4%) of the seats in national parliaments across the European Union, an increase of 5.6 percentage points compared to 2014.
Sweden (45.6%), Finland (45.5%) and Denmark (44.7%) were the countries with the highest proportion of women representatives, while Cyprus (14.3%), Hungary (14.6%) and Romania (19.5%) were the countries with the lowest.
Compared to 2014, three EU countries increased the share of women representatives by 10 percentage points or more: Malta (+14.9 percentage points), Latvia (+13.0 percentage points) and France (+10.3 percentage points).
Women in parliament, 2014 and 2024, percentage. Chart. See the link to the full dataset below.
More women in national governments in 2024
In 2024, women held 35.1% of national government seats, an increase of 7.4 percentage points compared to 2014 (27.7%).
The share of women in government was highest in Finland (60.0%). In three other EU countries, at least half of national government members were female: Belgium (55.0%), Estonia (50.0%) and France (50.0%).
In contrast, Hungary had no women in its national government at all, while the Czech Republic had 5.9% and Croatia had 10.5% female government members.
In most EU countries, the share of women in national governments has grown since 2014. Belgium recorded the largest increase (+32.8 percentage points), followed by Portugal (+25.7 percentage points) and Lithuania (+24.9 percentage points).