Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) revealed just days before the world celebrates the International Women's Day that there are only 96 women representatives in both houses of parliament in India. It therefore ranks abysmally low - 103rd in the Women in Parliament study released on Thursday.
The worst country in the world for women parliamentarians is Vanuatu ranked 137th where not a single woman is in parliament.
India where only 12% of parliamentarians are women in both houses of parliament - 65 in the Lower House and 31 in the Upper House, can learn from its immediate neighbours.
Pakistan ranks 64th - having 84 women parliamentarians - with 21% legislators in the lower house and 17% in the Upper House being women. China too is much better off than India. It is ranked 53rd - 699 members in the Lower House being women (24%).
Nepal which is ranked as high as 35 is a shining example of how to involve more women in parliament. Almost 1 in 3 parliamentary seats in Nepal (30%) - 176 are occupied by women.
Even Afghanistan is better off than India. The country is ranked 39th and boasts of 97 women parliamentarians. That is 28% of the seats in both houses of parliament.
Around 1 in every 5 parliamentarians in Bangladesh are women (20%).
IPU said "There were also minor increases to both houses of parliament in India, though the overall percentage remains very low".
US is ranked 72nd with 84 women parliamentarians in the lower house (20%) and 20 in the upper house.
UK on the other hand is ranked 56th with 24% of the parliamentary seats in the Upper House been taken by women and 23% in the Lower House.
There is however good news globally.
The number of single or lower houses of parliament where women occupy more than 30% of the seats increased from five to 42, while those with more than 40% have jumped from one to 13 over the past five years.
There are now also four chambers with more than 50% women MPs and one, Rwanda, with more than 60%. In 1995, Europe dominated the top 10 spots in IPU's world rankings of women in parliament. In 2015, four of the top 10 countries are from Sub-Saharan Africa.
Only Finland, Seychelles and Sweden appear in the top 10 for both 1995 and 2015, while Rwanda, Andorra and Bolivia have made the biggest leaps forward in women's representation during the 20 years with respective increases of 59.5%, 46.4% and 42.3% points.
The number of male-only parliaments has also dropped from 10 to five.
IPU says since 1995, when the Beijing Platform for Action on women's empowerment was adopted, the global average of women in parliament has increased from 11.3% to 22.1%. Women MPs have gained ground in nearly 90% of the 174 countries for which data was available in 1995-2015.
"After the optimism and belief in 2013 that gender parity in parliament was within reach in a generation, the lack of significant progress in 2014 is a major blow," says IPU Secretary General Martin Chungong.
Americas witnessed the greatest progress in the world with the percentage of women MPs rising from 12.7% in 1995 to 26.4% in 2015. In 1995, there were no countries in the region with more than 30% women MPs in their single or lower house of parliament. By 2015, there were nine such countries. Sub-Sahara Africa has achieved some of the most dramatic breakthroughs in the past 20 years.
The percentage of women MPs increased from 9.8% in 1995 to 22.3% in 2015. Africa has the third highest regional average for women MPs in 2015. There are now five countries with more than 40% women MPs and one country - Rwanda - with 63.8%.
Asia with the fourth highest average at 18.5% of women MPs has slipped in the rankings since 1995 by not keeping pace with the rest of the world on this issue. It has seen an increase from 13.2% to 18.5%. Singapore, meanwhile, has seen one of the biggest jumps in women's representation over 20 years with an increase of 21.6 percentage points. In 2014, Japan saw the largest rise in the percentage of women MPs, from 7.9% in 2012 to 9.5%.
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