Ethiopia is among the top 30 countries in the world in terms of the number of women parliamentarians. In 2023, women accounted for an average of 26.5% of the world’s parliaments, but in Ethiopia the proportion of women is about 41%: 195 of the 470 members of the Ethiopian Parliament, House of People’s Representatives (HoPR), are women. There are actually 547 seats in the HoPR, but only 470 were occupied in the general election 2021, because election could not be conducted in Tigray and parts of Oromia, Afar and Somali due to conflicts in these regions.
