Variable: Number of women in government positions
QoG Code: (wgov_totfem)
Description:
The number of women in government positions, who were counted for wgov_tot.
Type of variable: Continuous
Downloaded by QoG on: 2023-10-20
Last updated by source: 2022-07-20
Categories:
Political Parties and Elections
Gender Equality
Find this variable in:
OECD Cross-section - 2024
OECD Time-series - 2024
Standard Cross-section - 2024
Standard Time-series - 2024
Original Dataset
Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
| Dataset |
No. Countries |
| Standard cross-section: |
171 |
| Standard time-series: |
184 |
| OECD cross-section: |
38 |
| OECD time-series: |
39 |
This variable has information for these countries:
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- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Angola
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Brunei
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Congo
- Congo, Democratic Republic
- Costa Rica
- Cote d'Ivoire
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Cyprus (-1974)
- Cyprus (1975-)
- Czech Republic
- Czechoslovakia
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Eswatini (former Swaziland)
- Ethiopia (-1992)
- Ethiopia (1993-)
- Fiji
- Finland
- France (1963-)
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Germany
- Germany, East
- Germany, West
- Ghana
- Greece
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Korea, North
- Korea, South
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia (1966-)
- Maldives
- Mali
- Malta
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Oman
- Pakistan (-1970)
- Pakistan (1971-)
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Qatar
- Romania
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan (-2011)
- Sudan (2012-)
- Suriname
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- USSR
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Vietnam, North
- Vietnam, South
- Yemen
- Yemen, North
- Yemen, South
- Yugoslavia
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
This variable has information from the year 1963 to the year 2021