The Global Gender Gap Index 2006-2024

Data source: World Economic Forum

The Global Gender Gap Report benchmarks 153 countries on their progress towards gender parity across four thematic dimensions: Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment.

Dataset type
Time-Series
Dataset level
Country
Last updated by source
2024-06-11

Citation

When using this dataset, please cite as:

• Welzel, C. (2013). Freedom rising: Human empowerment and the quest for emancipation. Cambridge University Press.
• World Economic Forum. (2024). The global gender gap report 2024. World Economic Forum. https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-gender-gap-report-2024/

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Educational Attainment (0 to 1, where 1 indicates no gap). This subindex captures the gap between women’s and men’s current access to education through ratios of women to men in primary-, secondary- a ...

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The Global Gender Gap Index (0 to 1, where 1 indicates no gap) examines the gap between men and women in four fundamental categories (subindexes): Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational A ...

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Health and Survival (0 to 1, where 1 indicates no gap). This subindex provides an overview of the differences between women’s and men’s health through the use of two indicators. The first is the sex r ...

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Political Empowerment (0 to 1, where 1 indicates no gap). This subindex measures the gap between men and women at the highest level of political decision-making through the ratio of women to men in mi ...

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Economic Participation and Opportunity (0 to 1, where 1 indicates no gap). This subindex contains three concepts: the participation gap, the remuneration gap and the advancement gap. The participation ...

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