Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments | Azerbaijan – yearly data, chart and table
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Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament of Azerbaijan in 2024 amounted to 20.80 % of the total. In 2023, the value was 18.64%. It has been growing in this country for already 6 years in a row. Over the entire period of Inter-Parliamentary Union statistics since 1997, this indicator has increased in 1.73 times. The lowest share of woman parliamentaries was recorded in 2004, when it was 10.48. The maximum was in 2024, when number of female deputies in parliament of Azerbaijan reached 20.80 %.
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The proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments is the number of seats held by women members in single or lower chambers of national parliaments, expressed as a percentage of all occupied seats; it is derived by dividing the total number of seats occupied by women by the total number of seats in parliament. National parliaments can be bicameral or unicameral. This indicator covers the single chamber in unicameral parliaments and the lower chamber in bicameral parliaments. It does not cover the upper chamber of bicameral parliaments. Seats are usually won by members in general parliamentary elections. Seats may also be filled by nomination, appointment, indirect election, rotation of members and by-election. Seats refer to the number of parliamentary mandates, or the number of members of parliament.
