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Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments (%)

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Timeline:

This timeline shows a graph from 1991 to 2017 of East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income). No data until 1990. Number of actual observations by date: 20.

Source name:

World Development Indicators

Source organization:

Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) (www.ipu.org).

Categories, topics:

Public Sector, Gender, Social Development

Last updated:

apr 23, 2017

Indicators value changes by year

Meaning:

18.077

Minimum:

16.794

jan 1, 2004

Maximum:

19.807

jan 1, 2017

At the date of observation

Value

Absolute change

Change from the previous value

jan 1, 1991

17.248

+17.248

0.0%

jan 1, 1999

17.538

+0.29

1.68%

jan 1, 2000

18.532

+0.995

5.67%

jan 1, 2001

17.288

-1.244

-6.71%

jan 1, 2002

17.581

+0.293

1.69%

jan 1, 2003

18.065

+0.484

2.75%

jan 1, 2004

16.794

-1.271

-7.03%

jan 1, 2005

17.135

+0.34

2.03%

jan 1, 2006

17.271

+0.136

0.79%

jan 1, 2007

17.631

+0.361

2.09%

jan 1, 2008

17.973

+0.342

1.94%

jan 1, 2009

18.242

+0.269

1.49%

jan 1, 2010

18.501

+0.259

1.42%

jan 1, 2011

17.882

-0.619

-3.35%

jan 1, 2012

17.873

-0.008

-0.05%

jan 1, 2013

18.189

+0.315

1.76%

jan 1, 2014

19.266

+1.077

5.92%

jan 1, 2015

19.015

-0.251

-1.3%

jan 1, 2016

19.703

+0.689

3.62%