GGGR 2025

Global Gender Gap Report 202510Benchmarking gender gaps, 20251 The Global Gender Gap Index was first introduced by the World Economic Forum in 2006 to benchmark progress towards gender parity across four dimensions: economic opportunities, education, health and political leadership (Figure 1.1).Throughout its 19 editions, the index has intended to offer a stable metric for the assessment of changes in gender parity indicators over time. Using the methodology introduced in 2006, the index and the analysis focus on benchmarking parity between women and men at global, regional and economy levels based on the latest available data. The level of progress toward gender parity (the parity score) for each indicator is calculated as the ratio of the value of each indicator for women to the value for men. A parity score of 1 indicates full parity and a score above 1 is truncated to 1 for interpretability. The gender gap is the distance from full parity. In addition to the 0–1 scale, the index also expresses progress toward gender parity as a percentage, indicating the extent to which the gender gap has been closed on a 0–100% scale. For further information on index methodology, please refer to Appendix B. To ensure a global representation of the gender gap, the report aims to cover as many economies as possible. For an economy to be included, it must report data for a minimum 12 of the 14 indicators that comprise the index. The index endeavours to include the latest data available, reported within the last 10 years. The report this year covers 148 economies. Papua New Guinea and Trinidad and Tobago return to the index in 2025, and Gabon is included for the first time. Qatar, featured in the 2024 index, is not covered infrom this edition. Among the 148 economies included this year are a set of 100 economies that have been covered in all editions since 2006. Scores based on this constant set of economies are used to calculate and compare regional and global aggregates across time. It should be noted that there may be time lags in the data collection and validation processes across the organizations from which the data is sourced, and that all results should be interpreted within a range of global, regional and national contextual factors. The Economy Profiles at the end of the report provide an additional broader range of data to support such analysis.Economy coverage 1.1 SourceThe Global Gender Gap Index Framework FIGURE 1.1 Subindex 1 Economic Participation and Opportunity Subindex 2 Educational Attainment Subindex 3 Health and Survival Subindex 4 Political Empowerment World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Index 2025 . Global Gender Gap Report 2025 June 2025