{"chart":{"title":"Share of women in parliament","subtitle":"Percentage of seats in lower or single chamber of the legislature held by women.","note":"Only countries with at least one legislative chamber included.","citation":"V-Dem (2025)","originalChartUrl":"https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-women-in-parliament","selection":["Argentina","Australia","Botswana","China","World"]},"columns":{"Lower chamber female legislators (central estimate)":{"titleShort":"Share of women in parliament","titleLong":"Share of women in parliament - V-Dem","descriptionShort":"Percentage of women in the lower or single chamber of the legislature.","descriptionKey":["Measures the percentage of female members in the lower (or unicameral) chamber of the national legislature.","Values are expressed as a percentage; higher values indicate greater gender representation.","Data is compiled from authoritative sources like the Inter-Parliamentary Union and is cleaned to exclude non-bicameral systems.","V-Dem covers many more countries since 1900, which affects regional averages."],"descriptionProcessing":"The default regional aggregates (including values for the World) have been estimated by averaging the country values. These are only estimated when data for most countries and populations is available (i.e. 70% for most continents). We have used the list of countries in 1900 as a reference.\n\nIn addition, regional aggregates with names like `Region (population-weighted)` (including values for World) have been estimated by averaging the country values weighted by population. The population values are from the UN WPP 2024 revision dataset. These are only estimated when 70% of people in region have data for the given year.","unit":"%","timespan":"1900-2024","type":"Numeric","owidVariableId":1034712,"shortName":"wom_parl_vdem__estimate_best","lastUpdated":"2025-03-17","nextUpdate":"2026-03-17","citationShort":"V-Dem (2025) – processed by Our World in Data","citationLong":"V-Dem (2025) – processed by Our World in Data. “Share of women in parliament – V-Dem” [dataset]. V-Dem, “Democracy report v15” [original data].","fullMetadata":"https://api.ourworldindata.org/v1/indicators/1034712.metadata.json"}},"dateDownloaded":"2025-07-09"}