Women members of parliaments globally average only 17 per cent of all seats, far below the goal of 30+ women's representation in national legislatures adopted in Beijing in 1995. Only 19 countries have achieved this figure, considered to be the threshold for women having an on the workings of a parliament. Out of these 19, only 5 (Finland, Denmark, Cuba, New Zealand and Belarus) have made it without legal quotas. Nowadays, there are 97 countries with constitutional, electoral or political party quotas and the average level of representation for women in these countries is 19 per cent.

Sources: Global Database of Quotas for Women, IPU database, Wedo.