Cape Verde vs Costa Rica: Representation of women in the lower chamber of parliament
Cape Verde
0.93 ratio
in 2026
Costa Rica
0.96 ratio
in 2026
Cape Verde rank
9th
Costa Rica rank
6th
Representation of women in the lower chamber of parliament over time
- Cape Verde
- Costa Rica
How they compare
Costa Rica currently reports 0.96 ratio against 0.93 ratio in Cape Verde, a difference of 0.03 ratio.
Across all 6 years both countries report, Costa Rica has been ahead every year.
Cape Verde ranks 9th and Costa Rica ranks 6th of 171 countries.
Costa Rica has averaged higher in every one of the 1 decades both report.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher representation of women in the lower chamber of parliament, Cape Verde or Costa Rica?
- Costa Rica, at 0.96 ratio against 0.93 ratio in Cape Verde as of 2026.
- What is the difference in representation of women in the lower chamber of parliament between Cape Verde and Costa Rica?
- 0.03 ratio, with Costa Rica ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Cape Verde and Costa Rica?
- 6 years are reported by both, from 2021 to 2026.
- How do Cape Verde and Costa Rica rank globally for representation of women in the lower chamber of parliament?
- Cape Verde ranks 9th and Costa Rica ranks 6th of 171 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Inter-Parliamentary Union – processed by Our World in Data, published as Representation of women in the lower chamber of parliament. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
Ratio for female members of parliaments (Ratio of the proportion of women in parliament in the proportion of women in the national population with the age of eligibility as a lower bound boundary), Lower Chamber or Unicameral.