Japan vs Madagascar: Representation of women in the lower chamber of parliament
Japan
0.3 ratio
in 2026
Madagascar
0.32 ratio
in 2026
Japan rank
133rd
Madagascar rank
131st
Representation of women in the lower chamber of parliament over time
- Japan
- Madagascar
How they compare
Madagascar currently reports 0.32 ratio against 0.3 ratio in Japan, a difference of 0.02 ratio.
That makes Madagascar's figure about 1.1 times Japan's.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 6 shared years of data; in 2021 it was Madagascar ahead.
Japan ranks 133rd and Madagascar ranks 131st of 171 countries.
Madagascar 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, Japan or Madagascar?
- Madagascar, at 0.32 ratio against 0.3 ratio in Japan as of 2026.
- What is the difference in representation of women in the lower chamber of parliament between Japan and Madagascar?
- 0.02 ratio, with Madagascar ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Japan and Madagascar?
- 6 years are reported by both, from 2021 to 2026.
- How do Japan and Madagascar rank globally for representation of women in the lower chamber of parliament?
- Japan ranks 133rd and Madagascar ranks 131st 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.