GGGR 2025

Global Gender Gap Report 2025258Economy Pro file MaldivesScore 0.626Rank 138thPage 2 of 2 Complementary Targets and Contextual Indicators 2025 General indicators Indicatr Unit Value GDP US$ billions 6.59 GDP per capita, PPP constant '21, intl. $ 1000 22.29 Population sex ratio female/male, % 37.90 Population growth rate % 0.36 Indicatr Millin peple Female Male Value Total population 0.20 0.33 0.53 Work participation and leadershipIndicatr Unit Value Gender wage gap % n. a. Share of women's membership in boards % n. a. Firms with female majority ownership % firms n. a. Firms with female top managers % firms n. a. Indicatr 1-7 (best) Value Advancement of women to leadership roles n. a. Indicatr Millin peple Female Male Value Labour-force 0.0/g1E 0.10 0.17 Indicatr Unit Female Male Value Share of workers in informal sector % workers 52.04 45.23 48.15 Unemployed adults % of labo/g5Cr force /gF1/g1C/g14 64) 4.03 5.10 4.64 Workers employed part-time % of employed people 31.52 13.35 21.13 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 Near-equal rights Inheritance rights for widows and daughters Unequal rights Access to land assets Near-equal rights Access to non-land assets Near-equal rights Civil and political xg47reedom Indicatr Unit Value Year women received right to vote year 1965 Number of female heads of state to date n/g5Cmber n. a. Seats held in upper house % total seats n. a. Indicatr Yess Value Election list quotas for women, national n. a. Party membership quotas, voluntary n. a. Indicatr Equal rights Value Access to justice Restricted rights Freedom of movement Uneven rightsFamily and careIndicatr Unit Value Unmet family planning % women 1/g1C/g144/g20 31.40 Early marriage % 3.80 Mean age of women at birth of first child years n. a. Indicatr Equal rights Value Right to divorce Unequal rights Indicatr Shared days Female Male Value Length of paid parental leave 60 3 0 Education and skills Graduates % Female Male Value STEM 1.99 6.89 3.59 Agri., Forestry, Fisheries & Veterinary n. a. n. a. n. a. Arts & Humanities 14.3/g1F 12.07 13.62 Business, Admin. & Law 3/g1F.51 64.00 46.87 Education 3/g1F.33 14.96 30.67 Engineering, Manuf. & hgk onstruction 0.11 0.96 0.39 Health & Welfare 6./g1E2 2.07 5.20 Information & hgk omm. Technologies 1./g1F4 5.93 3.18 Natural Sci., Mathematics & Statistics n. a. n. a. n. a. Social Sci., hgljournalism & Information 1.20 1.16 1.19 Graduates Attainment % Female Male g37arity Vocational training n. a. n. a. n. a. PhD graduates 0.0/g1E 0.09 0.08 Graduates from tertiary education n. a. n. a. n. a. Health Indicatr Unit Value Prevalence of gender violence in lifetime % women 19.00 Births attended by skilled personnel % live births 99.50 Maternal mortality deaths per 100,000 live births 32.00 Total fertility rate births per woman 1.58 Indicatr Equal rights Value Reproductive autonomy Uneven 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 258