GGGR 2025

Global Gender Gap Report 202520Progress over time 1.5 The index has documented the average yearly change in the gender gap since the inaugural edition of the report in 2006. This metric, applied to a consistent sample of 100 economies included in all 19 editions, can further indicate what the rate of progress is over time, as well as estimate how long it will take to close each gender gap across the four subindexes. The results in this section discuss scores and averages for these 100 economies. The 19-year trajectory of global gender gaps is charted in Figure 1.6. Edition 2007 2006 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019* 2020 2021 2022 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1Gender parity score (0-1, 1=parity) 2023 2024 2025 Source World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Index 2025.NotePopulation-weighted averages for the 100 economies featured in all editions of the index, from 2006 to 2025.*There is no corresponding edition for 2019.Evolution in scores, 2006-2025 Years to close the gap 123 Global Gender Gap Index 135 Economic Participation and Opportunity 162 Political Empowerment 17 Educational Attainment n.a. Health and SurvivalEvolution of the Global Gender Gap Index and subindexes over time FIGURE 1.6 Over the past 19 editions, global parity levels have been boosted by two different dynamics at the subindex level. Higher baselines for parity in Educational Attainment and Health and Survival have resulted in comparatively lower advances, whereas Economic Participation and Opportunity as well as Political Empowerment have exhibited more dynamism, with higher gains made over time. Results from this edition suggest that the global pace of progress has picked up from last year, boosted by increases in almost every metric of economic, political and educational parity tracked by the index. The Global Gender Gap Index has improved +4.8 percentage points, from 64.1% in 2006 to 69.0% in 2025 – its highest score to date, above pre-pandemic levels. Spaced over 19 editions, the total gain over the gender gap yields a yearly average progress of 0.25 percentage points. If economies were to continue to advance at this estimated rate of progress, global gender parity would be attained in 123 years – reducing last edition’s estimates by a full decade but overshooting Sustainable Development Targets (SDGs) by well over a century – 118 years, to be exact.