While the average age of members of Congress in the United States has gradually risen in recent years, this number decreased slightly with the beginning of the 119th Congress in 2025. This Congress first convened on January 3rd, 2025, and will end on January 3, 2027. In this Congress, the average age in the House of Representatives was 57 years, and the average age in the Senate was 64 years.

As of 2025, the average age of senators in the 119th Congress was 64. Of the total 100, 33 members of the U.S. Senate were between the ages of 60 and 69 - more than any other age group. The minimum age requirement to be a member of the Senate is 30, opposed to the House of Representatives which has a minimum age requirement of 25. The average age of members of Congress from 2009 to 2023 can be found here.

In the 119th Congress which began in January 2025, almost 27 percent of members of the House of Representatives were between the ages of 50 and 59 in 2025- more than any other age group.

This dataset is about countries in Southern Asia, featuring 3 columns: country, median age, and title of the political leader. The preview is ordered by population (descending).

This dataset is about countries in Middle Africa, featuring 3 columns: country, median age, and title of the political leader. The preview is ordered by population (descending).

This graph represents the average age of senators after each election in France in 2004, 2008, 2011, 2014 and 2017. We can thus observe that the Senate became younger in these last 13 years: going from an average age of 66 in 2011, to an average 60 years old after the 2017 elections.

This statistic shows the average age of political party members in Germany as of December 31, 2019. At the end of 2019, the average age of CDU, SPD and CSU party members was highest at roughly 60 years old, followed by 55 years for The Left, 51 years for the FDP and 48 years for The Greens (Grüne).

A survey measuring levels of engagement with political news in the United States found that older adults were by far the most likely to get news about politics and elections from journalists and news organizations, with 78 percent of adults aged 65 years or above saying they did so. Meanwhile, adults aged 18 to 29 years old were the likeliest to go to friends, family, or neighbors for updates about elections and politics.

Since 2010, the majority of candidates running for elected office in the U.S. have been over the age of 62. However, the percentage of young candidates seeking elective office has continued to increase throughout the past two decades. According to the source, in 2020, 3.6 percent of people between the ages of 18 and 25 ran for office in the United States.

This dataset presents all the active political groups of the French National Assembly. The data comes from open data from the National Assembly. This new game brings together data on political groups and parliamentary activity statistics developed by Datan in a single file.

The variables are as follows: — ID: ID present on the Assembly’s website — parliamentary term — libelle: name of the group — libelleAbrev: abbreviation of the group — libelleAbrege: name of the abbreviated group — dateStart: date of creation of the group — political position: opposition group, majority or minority — colorAssociee: color on the website of the National Assembly — number of staff: number of Members in the Group — women: percentage of female MPs in the group — age: average age in the group — scoreRose: rose index measuring social representativeness (https://rdrr.io/rforge/polrep/man/Rose.html) — scoreCohesion: cohesion rate (0-1) of the group — scoreParticipation: average participation rate of Members of the Group — scoreMajorite: proximity rate with the group of the presidential majority — dateMaj: date of update

The Woman's Day Survey, conducted jointly by Woman's Day Magazine and the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women in 1984, is a major survey of women's political attitudes. Over one hundred sixteen thousand women completed an 83-item, precoded questionnaire distributed in Woman's Day Magazine, at the time the largest response ever to a magazine survey. Of the responses, 2,776 were selected in a systematic random sample for analysis. Reflecting the readership of Woman's Day Magazine, the sample was predominantly White, married, and from the Midwest and more rural areas. Equal numbers of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents participated in the survey, resulting in a sample that was over-representative of Republicans. The questionnaire examined attitudes toward the 1984 elections, women in politics, the women's movement, the economy, employment, schools, government spending, health care, crime, energy and the environment, foreign policy, and women's rights issues. Data on the respondent's race, age, family structure, political party affiliation, income, education, religion, employment, and community were also collected. Accompanying 1.4% of the returned questionnaires were unsolicited personal letters further delineating the political attitudes and demographic profiles of the respondents. The Murray Archive holds additional analogue materials for this study (uncoded surveys and letters from 1,607 respondents who included a letter with their responses). If you would like to access this material, please apply to use the data.

This diagram illustrates the average age of the deputies sitting in the National Assembly in France in 2017, by parliamentary group. Within the political group embodying the presidential majority in the National Assembly, deputies were on average 46.5 years old. This parliamentary group has the lowest average age in the french Parliament. In contrast to that, the socialist left and regionalist deputies had an average age of 53.9 and 56.1 years respectively, about ten years older than the deputies of the La République en marche.

From 2010 to 2022, Swedes' interest in politics varied according to their age group. In detail, respondents between 16 and 29 years showed the least interest in politics, while respondents in the oldest age group were the most interested. During the time under consideration, the political interest was higher among all age groups in 2022 than in 2010.

This dataset is about book subjects and is filtered where the books includes Political women in the high middle ages : Berengula of Castile (1180-1246) and her family, featuring 10 columns including authors, average publication date, book publishers, book subject, and books. The preview is ordered by number of books (descending).

Abstract (en): This study contains selected demographic, social, economic, public policy, and political comparative data for Switzerland, Canada, France, and Mexico for the decades of 1900-1960. Each dataset presents comparable data at the province or district level for each decade in the period. Various derived measures, such as percentages, ratios, and indices, constitute the bulk of these datasets. Data for Switzerland contain information for all cantons for each decennial year from 1900 to 1960. Variables describe population characteristics, such as the age of men and women, county and commune of origin, ratio of foreigners to Swiss, percentage of the population from other countries such as Germany, Austria and Lichtenstein, Italy, and France, the percentage of the population that were Protestants, Catholics, and Jews, births, deaths, infant mortality rates, persons per household, population density, the percentage of urban and agricultural population, marital status, marriages, divorces, professions, factory workers, and primary, secondary, and university students. Economic variables provide information on the number of corporations, factory workers, economic status, cultivated land, taxation and tax revenues, canton revenues and expenditures, federal subsidies, bankruptcies, bank account deposits, and taxable assets. Additional variables provide political information, such as national referenda returns, party votes cast in National Council elections, and seats in the cantonal legislature held by political groups such as the Peasants, Socialists, Democrats, Catholics, Radicals, and others. Data for Canada provide information for all provinces for the decades 1900-1960 on population characteristics, such as national origin, the net internal migration per 1,000 of native population, population density per square mile, the percentage of owner-occupied dwellings, the percentage of urban population, the percentage of change in population from preceding censuses, the percentage of illiterate population aged 5 years and older, and the median years of schooling. Economic variables provide information on per capita personal income, total provincial revenue and expenditure per capita, the percentage of the labor force employed in manufacturing and in agriculture, the average number of employees per manufacturing establishment, assessed value of real property per capita, the average number of acres per farm, highway and rural road mileage, transportation and communication, the number of telephones per 100 population, and the number of motor vehicles registered per 1,000 population. Additional variables on elections and votes are supplied as well. Data for France provide information for all departements for all legislative elections since 1936, the two presidential elections of 1965 and 1969, and several referenda held in the period since 1958. Social and economic data are provided for the years 1946, 1954, and 1962, while various policy data are presented for the period 1959-1962. Variables provide information on population characteristics, such as the percentages of population by age group, foreign-born, bachelors aged 20 to 59, divorced men aged 25 and older, elementary school students in private schools, elementary school students per million population from 1966 to 1967, the number of persons in household in 1962, infant mortality rates per million births, and the number of priests per 10,000 population in 1946. Economic variables focus on the Gross National Product (GNP), the revenue per capita per household, personal income per capita, income tax, the percentage of active population in industry, construction and public works, transportation, hotels, public administration, and other jobs, the percentage of skilled and unskilled industrial workers, the number of doctors per 10,000 population, the number of agricultural cooperatives in 1946, the average hectares per farm, the percentage of farms cultivated by the owner, tenants, and sharecroppers, the number of workhorses, cows, and oxen per 100 hectares of farmland in 1946, and the percentages of automobiles per 1,000 population, radios per 100 homes, and cinema seats per 1,000 population. Data are also provided on the percentage of Communists (PCF), Socialists, Radical Socialists, Conservatives, Gaullists, Moderates, Poujadists, Independents, Turnouts, and other political groups and parties in elections 1946-1969. Additional variables provide information on medical in...

The survey "Topic-specific Information Behaviour on the Corona Pandemic" by the market and opinion research institute INFO GmbH examines the attitudes of the population towards the Corona Pandemic, their information behaviour and their handling of the topic as well as the assessment of the reporting on the Corona Pandemic. Thus, the current survey wave in November 2021 builds on surveys on the same topic in November 2020 and April 2021. The survey was conducted on behalf of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government.
Political interest; politically informed; general attitude towards politics in Germany (satisfaction with politics, influence on politics, attitude towards parties and politicians, understanding of politics); perception of various information offers of the federal government; currently most interesting political or social topic (open); currently most annoying topic (open); most frequently mentioned topics: Corona pandemic, environmental protection/climate change, foreigners/immigration/asylum/refugees, federal government/formation of government/coalition negotiations; split A: complex of questions on the annoying topic, split B: complex of questions on the interesting topic: what is most interesting/annoying in the context of this topic; being informed about this topic; personal behaviour in dealing with this topic (searched for information on the topic oneself, watched video contributions on the Internet or television on the topic, read articles on the topic in newspapers or on the Internet in full, only skimmed articles on the topic, talked to friends or acquaintances about the topic, tried to change the topic when talking about the topic, avoided the topic as much as possible, argued with others about the topic); evaluation of the reporting on this topic (too detailed, too complicated, too extensive, untrustworthy, balanced, correct, only aims to influence people, contains many opinions with which I disagree, I feel it is one-sided, does not reflect my own opinion on the topic at all, distracts from other important topics); behaviour in social media on this topic (expressed own opinion, only read opinions of others on this topic, have not yet read opinions on this in social media); general assessment of public discussion in social media on this topic (contains many opinions I disagree with, I perceive as one-sided, does not reflect my own opinion on the topic at all, I perceive as factual, I perceive as helpful to hear new arguments); comparison of one´s own view on the topic with the views of the environment in social networks and of family and friends; perception of information from the federal government on the topic; assessment of the credibility of information from the federal government on the topic.

Demography: age (year of birth, average age and grouped); gender; education; type of vocational training/professional qualification; occupation, household size; number of persons in household under 16; federal state; Berlin West/East; place of residence West/East; size of locality; party sympathies; former non-German nationality of respondent and parents (migration background); household net income (grouped).

Additionally coded were: Respondent ID; survey method (CATI, online panel); coarse clustering political disaffection (not political disaffected, political disaffected); average household size; and average number of children/youth in household under 16; weight; Nielsen areas; split (subgroups); allocation (question complex on annoying topic, question complex on topic of interest).

The Italian Parliament consists of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic. In the Senate, there are 320 Senators, including 208 men and 112 women. The average age of all Senators in Italy is around 56 years and it is higher by two years for men than for women.

According to a 2023 survey, Americans between 18 and 29 years of age were more likely to identify with the Democratic Party than any other surveyed age group. While 39 percent identified as Democrats, only 14 percent identified ad Republicans. However, those 50 and older identified more with the Republican Party.

According to a survey conducted in August 2023, almost 70 percent of adults aged 65 years and older in the United States said they were very concerned about the spread of political propaganda through artificial intelligence (AI). Overall, the majority of U.S. citizens reported being very concerned about the use of artificial intelligence in promoting political propaganda.

Following the 2019 general election, there were 200 Members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the United Kingdom’s House of Commons who were aged between 50 and 59 years of age, the most numerous age group that year. Since 2001, this age group has been the most numerous in Parliament, although there has also been an increase in younger MPs, aged between 18 and 29, and those aged over 70 years old. With a general election likely taking place in 2024, the composition of parliament will change once again, with current polls predicting a Labour victory for the first time since the 2005 general election. Demographics of the next parliament Whoever wins the next general elections, the next parliament is expected to be the most ethnically diverse in history. A large Labour majority could see approximately 84 MPs from ethnic minority backgrounds elected to parliament. As a comparison, there were just four non-white MPs elected in the 1987 election, with this figure gradually rising to 65 by 2019. There is also anticipated to be between 234 and 267 women elected, compared with 220 in 2019. Just 40 years before the last election, in 1979, there were only 19 female MPs in the House of Commons with this figure slowly increasing to 60 by 1992, and then doubling to 120 in the 1997 election.

‘Father of the House’ The Conservative MP, Sir Peter Bottomley is currently the longest-serving member of the House of Commons, having served for 44 and a half years as of the start of the 2019 parliament. Margaret Beckett has been an MP since the 1983 General Election, making her the longest serving female MP. Beckett was also briefly the acting leader of the Labour Party in 1994, a role that the fourth-longest serving MP; Harriet Harman performed in 2010 and again in 2015. Jeremy Corbyn, the fifth-longest serving MP since the 2019 election, succeeded Harman as Labour leader in 2015 and led the party at the 2017, and 2019 general elections.