2026-11-09 · percent of parliamentary seats

One in four parliament seats are held by women

Progress is real — parity is still distant in most chambers.

Policy grids compress billions of people into equal squares — the shock is in the share, not the cell. This grid divides global parliament seats (2026 snapshot) into colored bands — Women MPs and Men MPs — 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 parliament seats) · 1,000 cells