Who Seats the Most Women in Parliament? 🏛️

In 1920 only a handful of countries had let women into parliament at all — and the nations that seat the most of them today are not the ones you'd expect.

For decades the front of the chart was a small Northern club: Finland, which first sent women to parliament in 1907, alongside Sweden, Denmark and Germany. Then the communist world rewrote everything — the Soviet republics and Romania seated women by decree, lifting an entire bloc above the democracies of the West. When the Soviet Union collapsed those quotas vanished, and the Nordic countries climbed in their place. Then a country few saw coming rewrote the rules: Rwanda, rebuilding after the 1994 genocide, wrote gender quotas straight into its constitution.

The democracies that began this race no longer set its pace — today its front belongs to post-conflict states and the Global South.

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Data: V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy) — share of women in the lower or single house of parliament.

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