22% of UK MPs are women, 17% of the USA’s House of Representatives, 19% of France’s lower House and 22% of Canada’s.
In New Zealand the figure is 37%, in the Netherlands 41% and in Germany it is 33%.
Rwanda has the highest percentage of women MPs (56%) followed by Sweden (46%) and South Africa (45%).
Other countries with the same percentage of women MPs as the UK (22%) are the Czech Republic, Eritrea, Latvia and Uzbekistan.