Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments (%) (World Bank WDI)
World Bank indicators. % of single or lower chamber seats, annual.
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Data source: World Bank, wdi_lka.zip (8 Oct 2026)
Macro Lab · LK.SOC.WDI.SG_GEN_PARL_ZS.A · CC BY 4.0
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- Source World Bank, compiled by Macro Lab
- Unit % of single or lower chamber seats
- Date range 1997 – 2025
- Last checked 8 Oct 2026
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- Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments (%) (World Bank WDI)
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- World Bank: World Development Indicators and International Debt Statistics (World Bank)
- Source page
- https://data.worldbank.org/country/sri-lanka
- Licence
- Source: The World Bank. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
- Notes
- World Bank, World Development Indicators, SG.GEN.PARL.ZS, Sri Lanka. Data source (as the World Bank gives it): Monthly ranking of women in national parliaments, Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), uri: https://data.ipu.org/women-ranking/, note: For the year of 1998, the data is as of August 10, 1998., type: Excel, date accessed: 2026-03-29 Licence: CC BY 4.0. Source: The World Bank, World Development Indicators, https://data.worldbank.org/country/sri-lanka.
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