Rwanda leads the way

Name: Rwanda leads the way
Uploaded: 2026-11-03T21:39:48+00:00
Description: Explore women’s share of parliamentary seats across ten selected countries.

Explore women’s share of parliamentary seats across ten selected countries.

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Women members · percentage of seats in lower or single chamber · 2001–2025

Sources, method and credits

Inter-Parliamentary Union, via World Bank World Development Indicators SG.GEN.PARL.ZS, release last updated 8 October 2026, accessed 3 November 2026. Ten selected countries across regions, not a global top ten. Annual snapshots; intermediate animation is interpolated. Bubble areas rescale within each time period.

World Bank WDI indicator, CC BY 4.0; IPU original source. Historical illustration of US House chamber in 1860 from Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Country flags from FlagCDN.

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