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Summer Olympics: athletes and women's share, 1896–2024

Women first competed in 1900. Counts for the early Games differ between sources, but the trend does not: by 2024, women were 50% of the athletes.

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What does this axis measure?
Summer Olympics: athletes and women's share, 1896–2024: 30 points, a connected scatter chart.
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The data: 30 points
Athletes (thousands)Women among competitors (%)
0.2410
1.2262
0.6510.9
2.0081.8
2.4072
2.6262.5
3.0894.4
2.8839.6
1.3329.5
3.9638.4
4.1049.5
4.95510.5
3.31411.3
5.33811.4
5.15113.2
5.51614.2
7.13414.8
6.08420.7
5.17921.5
6.82922.9
8.39126.1
9.35628.9
10.31834
10.65138.2
10.62540.7
10.94242.4
10.76844.4
11.23845
11.47647.9
10.71450
Source
Wikipedia, Summer Olympic Games (CC BY-SA 4.0), list of Summer Olympic Games; share of women calculated by Unlabeled via the International Olympic Committee's page for each Games, as cited in the table's rows
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