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List of countries who have the highest percentages of female legislators, as of 2008. All countries with 25% or more female parliamentarians are listed here, in order. Rwanda has the highest percentage of women in high governing office at 56% (as a comparison, the USA's percentage is 17% and the UK's is 20%). Source: World Bank.

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Rank   Name Capital Official Language Currency Founded
  1. 1
    Kigali
    English Language, French Language, Kinyarwanda language
    Rwandan franc
    1962-07-01
  2. 2
    Stockholm
    Swedish Language
    Swedish krona
    1397
  3. 3
    Cape Town, Pretoria, Bloemfontein, Free State
    English Language, Sotho, Southern Language, Hebrew Language, Swati Language, Tamil Language, Hindi Language, German Language, Arabic Language, Urdu Language, Greek Language, Telugu language, Portuguese Language, Tsonga Language, Tswana Language, Sotho, Northern Language, Xhosa Language, Venda Language, Zulu Language, Ndebele Language, Afrikaans Language, Gujarati Language, Sanskrit Language, Southern Sotho, South African English, South African Sign Language, Nama Language, Khoe languages More
    South African rand
    1910-05-31
  4. 4
    Havana
    Spanish Language
    US$, Cuban convertible peso, Cuban peso
    1868-10-10
  5. 5
    Reykjavik
    Icelandic Language, Icelandic Sign Language
    Icelandic króna
    1904-02-01
  6. 6
    Buenos Aires
    Spanish Language
    Argentine peso argentino, Argentine peso, Argentina peso ley, Argentinian Peso, Argentine real More
    1816-07-09
  7. 7
    Helsinki
    Swedish Language, Finnish Language, Sami languages
    Euro
    1809-03-29
  8. 8

    The Netherlands

  9. 9
    Oslo
    Norwegian Language, Bokmål, Sami languages, Nynorsk
    Norwegian krone
    0872
  10. 10
    Copenhagen
    Danish Language
    Danish krone, Faroese króna
  11. 11
    Luanda
    Portuguese Language
    Angolan kwanza, Angolan escudo
    1975-11-11
  12. 12
    San José
    Spanish Language
    Costa Rican colón
    1821-09-15
  13. 13
    Madrid
    Spanish Language, Catalan language, Aranese language, Basque Language, Galician Language, Aragonese Language, Asturian language, Occitan language, Valencian More
    Euro, Spanish peseta
  14. 14
    Andorra la Vella
    French Language, Spanish Language, Catalan language, Portuguese Language More
    Euro
  15. 15
    Brussels, City of Brussels
    French Language, German Language, Dutch Language
    Euro, Dutch gulden
    1830-10-04
  16. 16
    Maputo
    Portuguese Language
    Mozambican metical, Mozambican escudo
    1975-06-25
  17. 17
    Wellington
    English Language, Māori language, New Zealand Sign Language, New Zealand English More
    New Zealand dollar, Cook Islands dollar
    1840-02-06
  18. 18
    Kathmandu
    Nepali Language
    Nepalese rupee
    2007-12-28
  19. 19
    Berlin
    German Language
    Euro
    1949-05-23
  20. 20
    Quito
    Spanish Language, Quechua
    US$, Ecuadorian sucre
    1822-05-24
  21. 21
    Minsk
    Russian Language, Belarusian language
    Belarusian ruble
    1990-07-27
  22. 22
    Kampala
    English Language, Ganda Language, Swahili Language
    Ugandan shilling, East African shilling
    1962-10-09
  23. 23
    Bujumbura
    French Language, Kirundi language, Swahili Language, Kanuri language
    Burundian franc
    1962-07-01
  24. 24
    Dar es Salaam, Dodoma
    English Language, Swahili Language
    Tanzanian shilling, East African shilling
    1961-12-09
  25. 25
    Georgetown
    English Language, Hindi Language, Arawak
    Guyanese dollar
    1966-05-26

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