Foreword 6

Key findings 7

Introduction 9
Acting for change 9
Barriers to youth participation 11
Why youth participation matters 12
About this report 14
Methodology 14

Young parliamentarians worldwide 15
Global patterns 15
Regional patterns 19
Election results since the 2021 IPU report 20
Age and gender patterns 27

Representation targets 32
IPU youth targets 32
Gender parity targets 33
Youth representation scores 34

Advancing youth participation 38
IPU's I Say Yes to Youth in Parliament! campaign 38
Pledge 1 : Accelerating progress using youth quotas 39
Pledge 2 : Halting age - based discrimination in the law by aligning voting and eligibility ages 44
Pledge 3 : Making parliaments fit for youth 48 participation
Pledge 4 : Having influential young parliamentarians 55
Pledge 5 : Mentoring a new generation of leaders 57
Pledge 6 : Advocating for transformative action 60

Conclusion 61

Annexes62
Annex 1 : Members of parliament aged 30 and under ( percentage ) 62
Annex 2 : Members of parliament aged 40 and under ( percentage ) 66
Annex 3 : Members of parliament aged 45 and under ( percentage ) 69
Annex 4 : Elections and parliamentary renewals results 72
Annex 5 : Youth representation score for members of parliament aged 30 and under 75
Annex 6 : Youth representation score for members of parliament aged 40 and under 78
Annex 7 : Youth representation score for members of parliament aged 45 and under 81
Annex 8 : List of parliaments in the dataset 84
Annex 9 : List of panellists and interviewees 89