Global Gender Gap Index 2025 benchmarks gender parity across 148 economies, offering trend analysis, key findings, and insights into progress since 2006.

The Global Gender Gap Index annually benchmarks the current state and evolution of gender parity across four key dimensions (Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment). It is the longest-standing index tracking the progress of numerous countries’ efforts towards closing these gaps over time since its inception in 2006.

Global Gender Gap Report 2023, Key Findings

Access World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2022 here.

Another generation of women will have to wait for gender parity, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2021. As the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to be felt, closing the global gender gap has increased by a generation from 99.5 years to 135.6 years.

Gender parity will not be attained for 99.5 years – that’s the sobering finding of the Global Gender Gap Report 2020

世界经济论坛发布的《2018年全球性别差距报告》显示，职场女性比例停滞不前，女性政治代表性下降，再加上健康和教育方面性别不平等愈发严重，抵消了薪资平等和女性拥有专业职位方面取得的进步，导致2018年全球性别差距仅略微缩小。

The Global Gender Gap Report benchmarks 144 countries on their progress towards gender parity across four thematic dimensions

Through the Global Gender Gap Report, the World Economic Forum quantifies the magnitude of gender disparities and tracks their progress over time, with a specific focus on the relative gaps between women and men across four key areas: health, education, economy and politics. The 2016 Report covers 144 countries. More than a decade of data has revealed that progress is still too slow for realizing the full potential of one half of humanity within our lifetimes.

世界经济论坛《2015年全球性别差距报告》显示，女性目前薪酬水平仅相当于十年前的男性收入。

The Global Gender Gap Report 2014 quantifies the magnitude of gender-based disparities and tracks their progress over time. While no single measure can capture the complete situation, the Global Gender Gap Index presented in this Report seeks to measure one important aspect of gender equality: the relative gaps between women and men across four key areas: health, education, economy and politics.

The Global Gender Gap Index seeks to measure one important aspect of gender equality: the relative gaps between women and men, across a large set of countries and across the four key areas of health, education, economy and politics.

Through the Global Gender Gap Report series, the World Economic Forum has been quantifying the magnitude of gender-based disparities and tracking their progress. By providing a comprehensive framework for benchmarking global gender gaps, it reveals those countries that are role models in dividing their resources equitably between women and men, regardless of the overall level of those resources.

This Report reveals those countries that are role models in dividing resources equitably between women and men, regardless of their level of resources. The World Economic Forum places a strong emphasis on a multi-stakeholder approach in order to engage leaders to design the most effective measures for tackling global challenges.

Nordic countries show the greatest equality between men and women.

We hope that this Report will lead to greater awareness of the challenges and opportunities, in addition to serving as a catalyst for change in both high and low-ranking countries, by revealing those countries that, within their region or their income group, are leaders in having divided resources equitably between women and men, regardless of the overall level of resources available.

The Gender Gap Index 2006 covers 115 countries, representing over 90% of the world’s population.The country comparisons are meant to serve a dual purpose: as a benchmark to identify existing strengths and weaknesses; and as a useful guide for policy, based on learning from the experiences of those countries that have had greater success in promoting the equality of women and men.