More than three decades after the genocide, Rwanda has the highest share of women in a lower or single chamber of parliament of any country, and it is not close — 51 of 80 seats, 63.75%, against a global average of about 27%. The constitutional floor is 30%; women hold nearly half of the directly elected seats too

Women hold 51 of the 80 seats in Rwanda’s Chamber of Deputies. That works out to 63.75%, a figure the Inter-Parliamentary Union rounds to 63.8%. In the IPU’s latest available ranking, Rwanda is first, ahead of Cuba at 57.2%. Around the world, women held 27.5% of national parliamentary seats as of 1 January 2026. Rwanda [...] The post More than three decades after the genocide, Rwanda has the highest share of women in a lower or single chamber of parliament of any country, and it is not close — 5