GGGR 2025

Global Gender Gap Report 2025332Economy Pro file South AfricaScore 0.767Rank 33rdPage 2 of 2 Complementary Targets and Contextual Indicators 2025 General indicators Indicatr Unit Value GDP US$ billions 380.7 GDP per capita, PPP constant '21, intl. $ 1000 13.69 Population sex ratio female/male, % 51.35 Population growth rate % 1.33 Indicatr Millin peple Female Male Value Total population 32.46 30.75 63.21 Work participation and leadershipIndicatr Unit Value Gender wage gap % n. a. Share of women's membership in boards % 34.40 Firms with female majority ownership % firms 8.70 Firms with female top managers % firms 38.50 Indicatr 1-7 (best) Value Advancement of women to leadership roles 4.60 Indicatr Millin peple Female Male Value Labour-force 10.42 12.12 22.54 Indicatr Unit Female Male Value Share of workers in informal sector % workers 34.6/g1C 35.11 34.90 Unemployed adults % of labo/g5Cr force /gF1/g1C/g14 64) 34.82 30.70 32.61 Workers employed part-time % of employed people 1/g20.76 12.38 15.68 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 Equal rights Inheritance rights for widows and daughters Uneven rights Access to land assets Near-equal rights Access to non-land assets Equal rights Ciyg57il and political freedom Indicatr Unit Value Year women received right to vote year 1930, 1984, 1994 Number of female heads of state to date n/g5Cmber n. a. Seats held in upper house % total seats 44.44 Indicatr Yess Value Election list quotas for women, national Yes Party membership quotas, voluntary Yes Indicatr Equal rights Value Access to justice Equal rights Freedom of movement Equal rightsFamily and careIndicatr Unit Value Unmet family planning % women 1/g1C/g144/g20 14.90 Early marriage % 3.10 Mean age of women at birth of first child years n. a. Indicatr Equal rights Value Right to divorce Uneven rights Indicatr Shared days Female Male Value Length of paid parental leave 120 10 0 Education and skills Graduates % Female Male Value STEM 13.07 25.78 17.70 Agri., Forestry, Fisheries & Veterinary 1.83 2.04 1.91 Arts & Humanities 4.28 6.02 4.92 Business, Admin. & Law 40.82 43.01 41.62 Education 20.87 10.88 17.23 Engineering, Manuf. & hgk onstruction 3.61 10.95 6.29 Health & Welfare 6.26 3.87 5.39 Information & hgk omm. Technologies 2.88 6.74 4.29 Natural Sci., Mathematics & Statistics 6./g1C8 8.09 7.13 Social Sci., hgljournalism & Information 11.31 7.24 9.83 Graduates Attainment % Female Male g37arity Vocational training 4.7/g20 2.87 3.82 PhD graduates 0.11 0.36 0.23 Graduates from tertiary education 4.7/g20 2.87 3.82 Health Indicatr Unit Value Prevalence of gender violence in lifetime % women 24.00 Births attended by skilled personnel % live births 96.70 Maternal mortality deaths per 100,000 live births 118.00 Total fertility rate births per woman 2.22 Indicatr Equal rights Value Reproductive autonomy Equal 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 332