Current number of seats in national parliaments (number) by country

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

• World 36,854
• Developing regions 26,110
• Asia 11,601
• Developed regions (Europe, Cyprus, Israel, Northern America, Japan, Australia & New Zealand) 10,744
• Africa 10,509
• Europe and Northern America 9,830
• Europe 9,054
• Sub-Saharan Africa 8,789
• Eastern and South-Eastern Asia 7,127
• Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 6,544
• Landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) 4,953
• Americas 4,929
• Eastern Asia 4,553
• Latin America and the Caribbean 4,153
• Northern Africa and Western Asia 4,153
• Eastern Africa 4,074
• Eastern Europe 2,617
• South-eastern Asia 2,574
• Western Asia 2,433
• Southern Europe 2,317
• Western Africa 2,277
• Northern Europe 2,124
• Small Island Developing States (SIDS) 2,115
• South America 2,102
• Central and Southern Asia 2,041
• Western Europe 1,996
• Northern Africa 1,720
• Middle Africa 1,673
• Southern Asia 1,524
• Central America 1,097
• Northern America 776
• Southern Africa 765
• Oceania 761
• Central Asia 517
• Oceania (exc. Australia and New Zealand) 488
• United States of America 433