Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments (%)

✦ DISCOVERED BY ORIONAITABLEMonthly ranking of women in national parliaments, Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), uri: https://data.ipu.org/women-ranking/, note: For the year of 1998, the data is as of August 10, 1998., type: Excel, date accessed: 2026-03-29SocietyGlobal
Global

About this dataset

Women in parliaments are the percentage of parliamentary seats in a single or lower chamber held by women.

Columns (4)

countrystringiso3stringyearstringvaluenumber

Sample rows

iso3yearvaluecountry
AFE202530.4245709123758Africa Eastern and Southern
AFW202521.1205539817438Africa Western and Central
ARB202517.8333333333333Arab World
CSS202525.9842519685039Caribbean small states
CEB202527.4156264447527Central Europe and the Baltics
EAR202525.6219392752204Early-demographic dividend
EAS202523.3498036234638East Asia & Pacific
EAP202523.0631169608136East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income)

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