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Share of women in parliament

The share of seats in the lower or only chamber of parliament held by women.

This is the share of seats in the lower or only chamber of a country's parliament held by women. V-Dem compiles it from sources such as the Inter-Parliamentary Union, and Our World in Data republishes it. The World value is the average of the countries, each counted once.

World map · Women in parliament

Source: V-Dem (2026) – processed by Our World in Data (updated 2026-03-17) · fetched 26 Oct 2026

Over time · Women in parliament

Source: V-Dem (2026) – processed by Our World in Data (updated 2026-03-17) · fetched 26 Oct 2026

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Hello there, I’m Klaus Jürgen Folz. I studied Mechanical Engineering at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Brazil, and I work in Austria as a lead Python and Power BI developer. I built Data Mechanics because good decisions start with facts. Public data is often scattered, hard to find or locked behind paywalls, and too much of what we read about the world is biased. Here, every number is shown as it was published, next to its source, so anyone can check it, compare countries and leaders, and draw their own conclusions.

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