The line chart below gives information about the percentage of female members of parliament in European countries (2000 – 2012)

The given line chart illustrates statics regarding the proportion of women involved parliament members

in particular

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counties in Europe namely, Germany, Italy,

France

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, the UK, and

Belgium

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from 2000 to 2012.

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, most countries experienced an upward trend between the period of 2000 and 2004.

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, some regions had a fluctuation in the following years, except the UK which showed consistent improvement across the years.

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, Italy and

France

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started in the same percentage around 25%, and both of them increased in 2004.

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Italy only grow to 30%,

France

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significantly rose to over 35%. Female parliaments members in

Belgium

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sharply enhanced to over 30%, which was 17% in the next year. Germany remained stable from the beginning to the end period, began at 34% and reached 37% in the

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period. In 2008, some countries figured out alteration tendencies.

France

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was seen declining to under 30%, and resurgent to 32% in 2012,

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,

Belgium

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slightly fell to 25%. Even though the UK dramatically boosted over the years, which started at under 5% and

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rose to 25%, it was still the lowest rate of female parliaments among the provided countries, which same position as

Belgium

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.