GLOBAL GENDER GAP INDEX
India was ranked at 127 out of 146 countries in terms of gender parity — an improvement
of eight places from last year, according to the recently published annual Gender Gap Report, 2023.
RELEASED BY: World Economic Forum.
INDIA’S PERFORMANCE IN 2021 & 2022
HOW IT IS CALCULATED?
THE INDEX
It benchmarks countries on their progress towards gender parity in four Key dimensions with Submatrices.
- Economic Participation and Opportunity
- Educational Attainment
- Health and Survival
- Political Empowerment
On each of the four sub-indices as well as on the overall index the GGG index provides scores between 0 and 1, where 1 shows full gender parity and 0 is complete imparity.
It is the longest-standing index, which tracks progress towards closing these gaps over time since its inception in 2006. Gender parity is not recovering, according to the Global Gender Gap Report 2023, it will take another 131 years to close the global gender gap.
THE 2023 REPORT FINDINGS
- According to the report, India had attained parity in enrolment across all levels of education.
- India had closed 64.3% of the overall gender gap. However, it underlined that India had reached only 36.7 % parity on economic participation & opportunity.
- On political empowerment, India has registered 25.3% parity, with women representing 15.1% of parliamentarians — the highest for the country since the inaugural report in 2006.
- The index ranked India’s neighbours Pakistan at 142, Bangladesh at 59, China at 107, Nepal at 116, Sri Lanka at 115 and Bhutan at 103.
- Iceland is the most gender-equal country in the world for the 14th consecutive year and the only one to have closed more than 90% of its gender gap.
- Overall, the Southern Asian region has achieved 63.4% gender parity, the second-lowest of the eight regions. (Middle East & North Africa is the lowest)
