GGGR 2025

Global Gender Gap Report 202518 Range of scores, Global Gender Gap Index and subindexes, 2025 FIGURE 1.5 Political Empowerment subindex 0.229Health and Survival subindex 0.962Educational Attainment subindex 0.951Economic Participation and Opportunity subindex 0.610Global Gender Gap Index 0.688 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 Gender parity score (0-1, 1=parity) Population-weighted average Source World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Index 2025.NoteYellow diamonds correspond to population-weighted averages, 148 economies. Globally, the second-largest gap to bridge is in Economic Participation and Opportunity. Among the 148 economies covered in the 2025 edition, the score for this subindex varies from 31.3% in Sudan to 87.3% in Botswana. A majority of economies have scores within a range of 51.7% and 78.8%, between the 10th and 90th percentiles (Figure 1.5). Among the five components of the Economic Participation and Opportunity subindex, the widest disparities across economies are observed in the parity scores for estimated earned income and the share of legislators, senior officials and managers, with differences between the maximum and minimum ratios exceeding 90 percentage points. The labour-force participation and share of professional and technical workers indicators show slightly lower disparities, with differences around 78 percentage points. The smallest disparity is observed in the parity score for wage equality for similar work, where the gap stands at 47 percentage points . The economies that are ranked in the bottom five of the Economic Participation and Opportunity subindex are: Sudan (31.3%), Pakistan (34.7%), Islamic Republic of Iran (34.9%), Egypt (40.6%) and India (40.7%). These countries are marked by extremely low estimated earned-income ratios, with women accessing less than one-third of the economic resources available to men. They also show minimal gender parity in senior workplace roles, with females-to-males ratios not exceeding 0.4, and labour-force participation rates reflecting less than half parity between women and men (Table 1.3). The economies that are in the top 10 of the Economic Participation and Opportunity subindex are: Botswana (87.3%), Liberia (86.5%), Eswatini (85.6%), the Republic of Moldova (85.3%) and Barbados (84.8%). These economies have closed more than 85% of the gender gap in labour-force participation. They also rank among the highest for female representation in legislators, senior officials and managers, with Barbados, Botswana and Liberia achieving full gender parity in this area (Table 1.3). Disparities across economies within the Educational Attainment subindex are relatively small. Scores for this subindex vary from 64.9% in Democratic Republic of the Congo to full parity (100%) in 35 out of 148 economies covered in the 2025 edition. Beyond the economies with full parity, 96 have closed at least 90% of the gender gap in education (Table 1.3).