GGGR 2025

Global Gender Gap Report 202528 2007 2006 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019* 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025Sub-Saharan AfricaEastern Asia and the Pacific Central Asia Middle East and Northern AfricaEurope Southern Asia Northern AmericaLatin America and the CaribbeanGender parity score (0-1, 1=parity) Edition0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 Source World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Index 2025.NotePopulation-weighted averages for the 100 economies featured in all editions of the index, from 2006–2025. *There is no corresponding edition for 2019.Evolution in scores, 2006–2025Regional gender gaps over time FIGURE 1.9 Since 2006, economies in Latin America and the Caribbean have collectively advanced the most out of all regions, a total of +8.6 percentage points, for a 2025 score of 74.5%. Their efforts have moved at an average annual pace of nearly half a percentage point – three times as fast as Central Asia (69.8%) and over twice as fast as Eastern Asia and the Pacific (69.4%). At this rate, economies in Latin America and the Caribbean would close the gender gap in 57 years. Over two percentage points behind them, in terms of overall advancement, is Europe (75.1%). Having closed 6.3 percentage points of their gender gap overall, European economies have nonetheless made zero progress since 2024, slowing their average annual pace to just 0.3 percentage points and placing them second in the race to parity, with 76 years of efforts ahead. Sub-Saharan Africa (68%) is the region with the third-best overall effort to date, having closed 5.6 percentage points of their gender gap since 2006. However, between last edition and this year’s, Sub-Saharan economies lost -0.2 percentage points in their score, reducing the momentum built to date and leaving parity 107 years away. Out of the remaining regions, only Northern America has closed over 5 percentage points of its overall gender gap (5.2 percentage points). The two economies in Northern America have been moving at an average annual pace of 0.3 percentage points per year, positioning the region as a whole in third place in terms of achieving full parity, at an estimated 89 years. Having closed between 3 to nearly 5 percentage points of their gap are Eastern Asia and the Pacific (3.3 percentage points), Middle East and Northern Africa (3.9 percentage points), and Southern Asia (4.9 percentage points). All three regions registered modest improvements since the 2024 edition of the index, ranging between 0.3 to 0.9 percentage-point increases in their overall scores. Of the three, Southern Asia is expected to reach parity first, in 138 years, followed by Eastern Asia and the Pacific, in 179 years, and Middle East and Northern Africa, in 185 years. The region that has reduced its gender gap by the lowest amount is Central Asia, with 2.7 percentage points. Its average annual rate of progress rises to just 0.1 percentage points, giving economies in the region a projected timeline to parity of 208 years.