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Costa Rica
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments (%)

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

Global rank#8out of 184 countries
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Historical trend

49.140.832.524.115.8199720112025Costa Rica · 2025: 49.12%Costa Rica

Analytical takeaways

  • Costa Rica records 49.12% for Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments (%) in 2025, ranking #8 globally out of 184 countries.
  • Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments (%) increased from 15.79% in 1997 to 49.12% in 2025, a gain of 33.33%.
  • The country sits in the top quartile of the global distribution for this metric, making the page useful for leader-oriented high-intent searches.

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