Upper middle income
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments (%)

Within the “Upper middle income” group, Cuba leads Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments (%) in 2025 at 55.74%, while Tuvalu sits at the lower end of the current snapshot with 0.00%. This format is well suited to long-tail regional and income-group queries.

Group leaders

0.013.927.941.855.7CubaCuba: 55.74%55.7MexicoMexico: 50.20%50.2EcuadorEcuador: 45.03%45.0South AfricaSouth Africa: 44.86%44.9Cabo VerdeCabo Verde: 44.44%44.4PeruPeru: 41.54%41.5ArgentinaArgentina: 41.25%41.2DominicaDominica: 40.63%40.6MoldovaMoldova: 39.60%39.6North MacedoniaNorth Macedonia: 39.17%39.2ArmeniaArmenia: 38.32%38.3Dominican RepublicDominican Republic: 37.37%37.4

Country table

#CountryValue
1 Cuba 55.74%
2 Mexico 50.20%
3 Ecuador 45.03%
4 South Africa 44.86%
5 Cabo Verde 44.44%
6 Peru 41.54%
7 Argentina 41.25%
8 Dominica 40.63%
9 Moldova 39.60%
10 North Macedonia 39.17%
11 Armenia 38.32%
12 Dominican Republic 37.37%
13 Serbia 37.20%
14 Albania 35.00%
15 Belarus 33.94%
16 El Salvador 31.67%
17 Viet Nam 31.38%
18 Suriname 31.37%
19 Grenada 31.25%
20 Equatorial Guinea 31.00%
21 Jamaica 30.16%
22 Colombia 29.41%
23 Philippines 28.34%
24 Montenegro 27.16%
25 China 26.54%
26 Turkmenistan 25.60%
27 Iraq 25.53%
28 Mongolia 25.40%
29 Paraguay 23.75%
30 Indonesia 21.90%
31 Gabon 21.58%
32 Micronesia, Fed. Sts. 21.43%
33 Ukraine 21.20%
34 Azerbaijan 20.80%
35 Guatemala 20.00%
36 Turkiye 19.90%
37 Thailand 19.60%
38 Jordan 19.57%
39 Bosnia and Herzegovina 19.05%
40 Kazakhstan 18.37%
41 Brazil 18.13%
42 Mauritius 17.91%
43 Georgia 16.83%
44 Libya 16.47%
45 Malaysia 13.51%
46 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 13.33%
47 Belize 12.50%
48 Marshall Islands 12.12%
49 St. Lucia 10.53%
50 Samoa 9.80%

Analytical takeaways

  • Inside the Upper middle income group for Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments (%) in 2025, Cuba leads with a gap of 5.54% to the next country.
  • The peer set on this page covers 58 countries, and the lower end of the current distribution sits with Tuvalu at 0.00%.
  • This page bridges the global ranking context with a more relevant regional or income-based comparison layer.