GGGR 2025

Global Gender Gap Report 2025114Economy Pro file BelgiumScore 0.773Rank 27thPage 2 of 2 Complementary Targets and Contextual Indicators 202yg16 General indicators Indicatr Unit Value GDP US$ billions 644.78 GDP per capita, PPP constant '21, intl. $ 1000 62.93 Population sex ratio female/male, % 50.71 Population growth rate % 0.91 Indicatr Millin peple Female Male Value Total population 5.98 5.81 11.79 Work participation and leadershipIndicatr Unit Value Gender wage gap % 0.91 Share of women's membership in boards % 39.30 Firms with female majority ownership % firms 6.70 Firms with female top managers % firms 17.90 Indicatr 1-7 (best) Value Advancement of women to leadership roles 4.75 Indicatr Millin peple Female Male Value Labour-force 2.32 2.62 4.93 Indicatr Unit Female Male Value Share of workers in informal sector % workers 1.07 1.05 1.06 Unemployed adults % of labo/g5Cr force /gF1/g1C/g14 64) 5.30 6.20 5.80 Workers employed part-time % of employed people 56.02 30.31 42.44 Proportion of time spent on unpaid domestic and care work % n. a. n. a. n. a. Access to finance Indicatr Equal rights Value Access to financial services Equal rights Inheritance rights for widows and daughters Equal rights Access to land assets Equal rights Access to non-land assets Equal rights Ciyg57il and political yg47reedom Indicatr Unit Value Year women received right to vote year 1919, 1948 Number of female heads of state to date n/g5Cmber 1 Seats held in upper house % total seats 47.46 Indicatr Yess Value Election list quotas for women, national Yes Party membership quotas, voluntary Yes Indicatr Equal rights Value Access to justice Equal rights Freedom of movement Equal rightsFamily and careIndicatr Unit Value Unmet family planning % women 1/g1C/g144/g20 n. a. Early marriage % 2.20 Mean age of women at birth of first child years 29.50 Indicatr Equal rights Value Right to divorce Equal rights Indicatr Shared days Female Male Value Length of paid parental leave 105 28 0 Education and skills Graduates % Female Male Value STEM 8.66 33.9/g1B 18.81 Agri., Forestry, Fisheries & Veterinary 2.06 1.80 1.95 Arts & Humanities 9.22 7.98 8.72 Business, Admin. & Law 20.88 25./g1B1 22.70 Education 11.19 5.1/g1B 8.76 Engineering, Manuf. & hgk onstruction 4.94 21.89 11.74 Health & Welfare 33.67 16.52 26.78 Information & hgk omm. Technologies 0.68 6./g1B2 2.98 Natural Sci., Mathematics & Statistics 3.04 5.63 4.08 Social Sci., hgljournalism & Information 13.08 7.25 10.74 Graduates Attainment % Female Male g37arity Vocational training 20.90 25.6/g1B 23.34 PhD graduates 0.73 1.2/g1B 0.98 Graduates from tertiary education 20.90 25.6/g1B 23.34 Health Indicatr Unit Value Prevalence of gender violence in lifetime % women 22.00 Births attended by skilled personnel % live births n. a. Maternal mortality deaths per 100,000 live births 4.00 Total fertility rate births per woman 1.47 Indicatr Equal rights Value Reproductive autonomy Equal rights *Scores are on a 0 to 1 scale, where 1 represents the optimal situation or “parity ”. Please see Appendix A and B for detailed methodology, de finitions, sources and periods. **For all indicators, except the two health indicators, parity is benchmarked at 1. In the case of sex ratio at birth, the gender parity benchmark is set at 0.944 hgFsee hglklasen and Wink, 2003hgji. In the case of healthy life expectancy the gender parity benchmark is set at 1.06, given women's longer life expectancy.Global Gender Gap Report 2025 114