2026-03-29 · percent of parliamentary seats
Nordic parliaments lead on women’s representation
Quota and party policies show up in seat shares.
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 — Nordic countries (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 Nordic countries (avg) at 45% of global parliamentary seats and Asia & Pacific at 28.6% — 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/2026-03-29-pol-women-mp-nordic