Fig. 1 — At a glance

Average female labour force participation, by regime type.

Colour runs light → dark with the regime scale, because regime type is ordered — not four unrelated categories.

Fig. 2 — Explorer

Every country, plotted by regime type.

← Scroll to see all four regime types →

Dashed line = group mean. Each dot is one country; dots are nudged sideways only to stop them overlapping, so horizontal position carries no meaning.

Fig. 3 — Full dataset

Country by country.

Country Region Regime type Female labour force % Source

Methodology

Where the numbers come from.

Regime type follows the V-Dem Institute's four-category Regimes of the World typology (Closed Autocracy, Electoral Autocracy, Electoral Democracy, Liberal Democracy), based on the classifications reported in V-Dem's 2024–2026 Democracy Reports — including two 2024 revisions worth noting: Canada sits in Electoral rather than Liberal Democracy, and South Africa regained Liberal Democracy status. Kenya, Nigeria, and Indonesia sit in V-Dem's "grey zone" near a category boundary; this page uses V-Dem's best-estimate category for each. These are static classifications — V-Dem publishes no live API — refreshed by hand from the source reports rather than fetched at page load.

Female labour force participation (% of female population ages 15+, modeled ILO estimate) is fetched live, in your browser, from the World Bank Indicators API (SL.TLF.CACT.FE.ZS) each time this page loads — see the fetchLiveParticipation() function in this page's source. If that request fails or is blocked by your network, the chart and table fall back to the reference snapshot bundled in data.csv, and the banner above says so.

To point this at a different question entirely, replace data.csv — columns: country, iso3, region, regime_type, female_labor_force_participation — and swap the World Bank indicator code in the fetch call for another (wage gap, access to credit, entrepreneurship rate) to explore a different dimension of economic inclusion.