Countries With the Lowest Women's Political Empowerment

Every country with a figure for women's political empowerment, ranked from lowest to highest. The top three are Afghanistan (0.028), Eritrea (0.151) and Yemen, Rep. (0.161). The middle country of the 175 has 0.772.

What this measures

Women's political empowerment index, in index (0-1). Source: V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg. For this measure, higher is better.

Women's civil liberties, their part in civic groups, and their political representation. It is built from its own set of questions, not from the parts of the democracy indices, so it is not tagged as measuring the same thing. Still, read its links with them carefully. Whether women take part in politics is partly built into whether real political participation exists at all. So a strong link with general democracy measures is closer to definitional (true by how the terms are defined) than to a finding about the world.

The full ranking

Each country’s latest figure, from 2025–2025. The year beside each value says when it was measured.

More on women's political empowerment

• Countries With the Highest Women's Political Empowerment
• Women's political empowerment by country: trend over time and what it goes with

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A ranking describes countries, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All country rankings.