GGGR 2025
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Global Gender Gap Report 2025368Economy Pro file
United KingdomScore
0.838Rank
4thPage 2 of 2
Complementary Targets and Contextual Indicators 2025
General indicators
Indicat r Unit Value
GDP US$ billions 3,380.85
GDP per capita, PPP constant '21, intl. $ 1000 52.58
Population sex ratio female/male, % 50.77
Population growth rate % 0.82
Indicat r Milli n pe ple Female Male Value
Total population 34.70 33.65 68.35
Work participation and leadershipIndicat r
Unit Value
Gender wage gap % 13.26
Share of women's membership in boards % 40.90
Firms with female majority ownership % firms 8.40
Firms with female top managers % firms n. a.
Indicat r 1-7 (best) Value
Advancement of women to leadership roles 4.88
Indicat r Milli n pe ple Female Male Value
Labour-force 14.85 15.82 30.67
Indicat r Unit Female Male Value
Share of workers in informal sector %
workers 7.92 5.23 6.51
Unemployed adults % of labo/g5Cr force /gF1/g1C/g14
64) 4.22 4.66 4.45
Workers employed part-time % of
employed people 52.27 28.51 40.05
Proportion of time spent on unpaid
domestic and care work % 1/g1D.01 12.25 n. a.
Access to finance
Indicat r Equal rights Value
Access to financial services Equal rights
Inheritance rights for widows and daughters Equal rights
Access to land assets Equal rights
Access to non-land assets Equal rights
Ci/g57il and political /g47reedom
Indicat r Unit Value
Year women received right to vote year 1918, 1928
Number of female heads of state to date n/g5Cmber 3
Seats held in upper house % total seats 29.96
Indicat r Yes s Value
Election list quotas for women, national Yes
Party membership quotas, voluntary Yes
Indicat r Equal rights Value
Access to justice Equal rights
Freedom of movement Equal rightsFamily and careIndicat r
Unit Value
Unmet family planning % women 1/g1C/g144/g20 n. a.
Early marriage % 3.00
Mean age of women at birth of first child years 29.00
Indicat r Equal rights Value
Right to divorce Equal rights
Indicat r Shared days Female Male Value
Length of paid parental leave 42 14 231.00
Education and skills
Graduates % Female Male Value
STEM 12.97 35.3/g20 22.26
Agri., Forestry, Fisheries & Veterinary 0.90 0.48 0.73
Arts & Humanities 15.37 12.51 14.18
Business, Admin. & Law 23.75 2/g1E.55 25.32
Education 9.71 4.20 7.43
Engineering, Manuf. & hgk onstruction 4.22 16.14 9.16
Health & Welfare 20.27 8.38 15.35
Information & hgk omm. Technologies 1.74 8.12 4.38
Natural Sci., Mathematics & Statistics 7.01 11.14 8.72
Social Sci., hgljournalism & Information 1/g1D.14 10.80 13.93
Graduates Attainment % Female Male g37arity
Vocational training 15.24 1/g1E.41 16.34
PhD graduates 1./g1D7 2.1/g1E 1.92
Graduates from tertiary education 15.24 1/g1E.41 16.34
Health
Indicat r Unit Value
Prevalence of gender violence in lifetime % women 24.00
Births attended by skilled personnel % live births n. a.
Maternal mortality deaths per 100,000 live births 8.00
Total fertility rate births per woman 1.56
Indicat r Equal rights Value
Reproductive autonomy Restricted 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 368
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