Women in national parliament in Libya

Women held 16.5% of seats in the national parliament of Libya in 2025.

Measure: Women in national parliament Unit: % of seats in the single or lower chamber Data: 2005 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Libya, 2025 16.5% % of seats in the single or lower chamber
Change from 2024 0percentage points 2024: 16.5%
World, 2025 27.2% Official aggregate
Position in 2025 138th of 184 See the full ranking

Women in national parliament in Libya over time

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% of seats in the single or lower chamber. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Women in national parliament (% of seats in the single or lower chamber), 2001 to 2025
Period LibyaWorld
2025 16.5% 27.2%
2024 16.5% 27.0%
2023 16.5% 26.7%
2022 16.5% 26.5%
2021 16.0% 26.1%
2020 16.0% 25.6%
2019 16.0% 24.6%
2018 16.0% 24.1%
2017 16.0% 23.6%
2016 16.0% 23.1%
2015 16.0% 22.8%
2014 16.0% 22.2%
2013 16.5% 21.8%
2012 16.5% 20.8%
2011 – 19.8%
2010 7.7% 19.2%
2009 7.7% 19.0%
2008 7.7% 18.4%
2007 7.7% 17.9%
2006 7.7% 17.0%
2005 4.7% 16.5%
2004 – 15.9%
2003 – 15.2%
2002 – 15.2%
2001 – 14.1%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is unchanged from 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 16.0%, the figure has changed by +0.5 percentage points.
  • Among the 184 countries with data for 2025, Libya has the 138th highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2025 was 27.2%.

Source and dates

Original producer
Inter-Parliamentary Union
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
SG.GEN.PARL.ZS · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
2005 to 2025 for Libya
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: Inter-Parliamentary Union