Explore the geographical and time trends for the percentage of women in national parliaments.
The objective is to look at the geographical and time trends in the data. We will answer the following questions.
- What are the time trends for Portugal?
- How does Portugal compare to other countries?
- Which countries have the highest percentage of women in parliament by year?
- How do continents compare?
- What are the global trends over time?
The raw data for "Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments" ("single or lower parliamentary chambers only") can be directly downloaded from:
As part of its "open data" mission the World Bank kindly offers "free and open access to global development data" licensed under the "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0)".
