2026-03-28 · percent of parliamentary seats
Sub-Saharan Africa has mixed but rising representation
Rwanda and others pull regional averages up.
Policy grids compress billions of people into equal squares — the shock is in the share, not the cell. This grid divides global parliamentary seats (2026 snapshot) into colored bands — Sub-Saharan Africa (avg), Asia & Pacific, and 2 more groups — using equal squares so you compare shares, not country size on a map.
1 cell = 0.1 percent of parliamentary seats (0.1% of global parliamentary seats) · 1,000 cells
Context
The 2026 figures from OWID — Women in parliament put Asia & Pacific at 39.5% of global parliamentary seats and Sub-Saharan Africa (avg) at 24% — about 100 percent of parliamentary seats in this edition's rounding.
Share of parliamentary seats held by women (IPU via OWID).
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Credit this grid as Inagrid — https://inagrid.com/e/2026-03-28-pol-women-mp-sub-saharan