GGGR 2025

Global Gender Gap Report 2025142Economy Pro file CanadaScore 0.767Rank 32ndPage 2 of 2 Complementary .g35ar.g48ets and Conte.g59tual .g2Andicators 2025 General indicators Indicatr Unit Value GDP US$ billions 2,142.47 GDP per capita, PPP constant '21, intl. $ 1000 56.71 Population sex ratio female/male, % 50.34 Population growth rate % 2.93 Indicatr Millin peple Female Male Value Total population 20.19 19.91 40.10 Work participation and leadershipIndicatr Unit Value Gender wage gap % 16.14 Share of women's membership in boards % 35.50 Firms with female majority ownership % firms 10.50 Firms with female top managers % firms n. a. Indicatr 1-7 (best) Value Advancement of women to leadership roles 4.91 Indicatr Millin peple Female Male Value Labour-force 8.84 9.95 18.79 Indicatr Unit Female Male Value Share of workers in informal sector % workers n. a. n. a. n. a. Unemployed adults % of labo/g5Cr force /gF1/g1C/g14 64) 6.10 6.80 6.47 Workers employed part-time % of employed people 48.66 32.44 40.13 Proportion of time spent on unpaid domestic and care work % 14.17 10.00 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 Uneven rights Access to non-land assets Equal rights Ci.g57il and political .g47reedom Indicatr Unit Value Year women received right to vote year 1917, 1918, 1950, 1960 Number of female heads of state to date n/g5Cmber 1 Seats held in upper house % total seats 53.54 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 % 1.70 Mean age of women at birth of first child years 30.00 Indicatr Equal rights Value Right to divorce Equal rights Indicatr Shared days Female Male Value Length of paid parental leave 105 0 210.00 Education and skills Graduates % Female Male Value STEM 15.97 39.39 25.94 Agri., Forestry, Fisheries & Veterinary 1.10 0.92 1.02 Arts & Humanities 8./g1A1 6.66 7.61 Business, Admin. & Law 24.42 27.31 25.65 Education 6.88 2.55 5.04 Engineering, Manuf. & hgk onstruction 5.02 20.98 11.82 Health & Welfare 22.14 5.81 15.19 Information & hgk omm. Technologies 2.78 10.49 6.06 Natural Sci., Mathematics & Statistics 8.17 7.91 8.06 Social Sci., hgljournalism & Information 12.71 7.36 10.43 Graduates Attainment % Female Male g37arity Vocational training 7.10 7.38 7.24 PhD graduates 0.84 1.30 1.07 Graduates from tertiary education 7.10 7.38 7.24 Health Indicatr Unit Value Prevalence of gender violence in lifetime % women 25.70 Births attended by skilled personnel % live births 98.00 Maternal mortality deaths per 100,000 live births 12.00 Total fertility rate births per woman 1.26 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 142