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

Dataset SG.GEN.PARL.ZS published by World Bank, World Development Indicators. This page describes the source table. The measures below are the specific selections this site takes from it.

About the source table

Publisher: World Bank, World Development Indicators
Original producer: Inter-Parliamentary Union
Code: SG.GEN.PARL.ZS
Last update by provider: 8 October 2026
Last checked here: 9 November 2026
Licence (series metadata): CC BY-4.0
Source note: Monthly 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: 2026-03-29

Definition published with the series

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

Measures taken from this dataset

Measure	Fixed selection	Unit
Women in national parliament	SG.GEN.PARL.ZS	% of seats in the single or lower chamber