GGGR 2025

Global Gender Gap Report 202527Source World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Index, 2025.Regional performance 2025, by subindex FIGURE 1.8 NotePopulation-weighted averages, 148 economies. The percentages indicate the gender gap that has been closed to date. 100% 0% 50%Parity69.8% 69.4% 75.1% 74.5% 61.7% 75.8% 64.6%71.2% 71.6% 68.4% 65.6% 42.4% 76.1% 40.6% 99.3% 95.3% 99.6% 99.6% 97.6% 100.0% 95.4% 97.3% 95.5% 96.9% 97.7% 96.2% 97.2% 95.5%11.6%15.3% 35.4% 35.0% 10.5% 29.7% 26.8% 68.0% 67.5% 85.6% 96.8% 22.2% 68.8% 61.0% 95.1% 96.2% 22.9%Global Gender Gap IndexSubindexes Economic Participation and OpportunityEducational AttainmentHealth and SurvivalPolitical Empowerment Middle East and Northern Africa Northern America Southern Asia Sub-Saharan Africa Global averageLatin America and the CaribbeanEuropeEastern Asia and the PacificCentral Asia In 2025, Educational Attainment and Health and Survival are the two dimensions where regions perform best overall. Nearly all regions have closed over 90% of the gender gap in Educational Attainment – with Sub-Saharan Africa, scoring 85.6%, the exception. Only Northern America has achieved full educational parity. In terms of Health and Survival, all regions show gender parity levels over 95%, but only Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Northern America score over 97%. Where performance is third best is in Economic Participation and Opportunity. Here, regional parity scores are widely dispersed – the lowest, at 40.6%, in Southern Asia, and the highest, 76.1%, in Northern America. The distance between low and high performers pulls the overall global average down to 61.0%, despite having three regions with economic parity levels over 70%. In Political Empowerment, regional parity scores are somewhat less dispersed, yet the distance between the highest scoring region (Europe, 35.4%) and lowest performer (Middle East and Northern Africa, 10.5%) stretches to 23.8 percentage points. While complete gender parity has yet to be achieved, regional progress recorded thus far is collectively and overwhelmingly positive. Drawing from a constant sample of 100 economies included in the index since 2006, the report traces the evolving gender parity paths of all eight regions. As Figure 1.9 illustrates, each region charts an individual trajectory towards parity that reflects the range and pace of progress made by economies in that regional group. Where a broad and global set of economies pulls collectively and steadily forward, regional performance can reveal a more pronounced upwards trajectory – Latin America and the Caribbean is a prime example. Below the headline numbers lie the building blocks of regional performance. Figure 1.8 breaks down the overall gender parity scores by subindex, showing where gaps are widest for individual regions, as well as where regional efforts are aggregating into better global results.