233 countries and territories represented through structured data on national legislatures and their members. The dataset includes biographical information, party affiliations, and legislative term dates for over 70,000 politicians globally.
Use Cases
- Analyze gender parity in global governance using the 'gender' and 'legislative_period' columns
- Track political career trajectories by joining 'person_id' across multiple 'membership' records
- Map international political party networks using 'party_id' and 'organization' identifiers
Strengths
- Covers 233 countries and territories with standardized legislative data in JSON and CSV formats
- Uses the Popolo open standard for representing people, organizations, and memberships
- Includes specific fields for 'gender', 'birth_date', and 'death_date' for individual politicians
- Provides 'start_date' and 'end_date' for legislative terms and party memberships