Statistics: Women in German parliaments clearly underrepresented

Women are still clearly underrepresented in parliaments in Germany. Little has changed in recent years, as the Federal Statistical Office reports. In the newly elected Bundestag, the proportion of women is 32.4 percent. It is 33.2 percent in the country parliaments and 30.5 percent at the local level. For comparison: 51.7 percent of the adult population with German citizenship recently were women.

According to the statistics, the proportion of women in the future Bundestag is 2.4 percentage points lower than at the beginning of the previous legislative period. Little has changed in the small proportion of women since 2008, when the results were first published in the Federal Government’s equality atlas. At that time, the proportion of women in the Bundestag was 31.8 percent.

International comparison

In other European countries, the proportion of women in parliaments is much larger, the Federal Office continues. It is more than 43 percent in all Scandinavian countries, 44.3 percent in Spain, in Great Britain at 40.5 percent, in Belgium and the Netherlands at 39.3 percent, 36.2 percent in France and 36.1 percent in Austria. With a women’s share of 63.8 percent, the world’s lead is according to the information, the East African country of Rwanda.