GGGR 2025

Global Gender Gap Report 2025382Economy Pro file ZambiaScore 0.707Rank 79thPage 2 of 2 Complementary Targets and Contextual Indicators 2025 General indicators Indicatr Unit Value GDP US$ billions 27.58 GDP per capita, PPP constant '21, intl. $ 1000 3.67 Population sex ratio female/male, % 50.51 Population growth rate % 2.7hgki Indicatr Millin peple Female Male Value Total population 10.47 10.26 20.72 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 16.50 Firms with female top managers % firms 12.hgki0 Indicatr 1-7 (best) Value Advancement of women to leadership roles 5.hgki6 Indicatr Millin peple Female Male Value Labour-force 2.59 3.04 5.63 Indicatr Unit Female Male Value Share of workers in informal sector % workers 88.11 80.15 83.83 Unemployed adults % of labo/g5Cr force /gF1/g1C/g14 64) 6.28 5.88 6.07 Workers employed part-time % of employed people 17.24 16.02 16.58 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 Near-equal rights Access to land assets Uneven rights Access to non-land assets Uneven rights Ciyg57il and political yg47reedom Indicatr Unit Value Year women received right to vote year 1hgki62 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 Equal rights Freedom of movement Restricted rightsFamily and careIndicatr Unit Value Unmet family planning % women 1/g1C/g144/g20 1hgki.70 Early marriage % 14.60 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 98 0 0 Education and skills Graduates % Female Male Value STEM n. a. n. a. n. a. Agri., Forestry, Fisheries & Veterinary n. a. n. a. n. a. Arts & Humanities n. a. n. a. n. a. Business, Admin. & Law n. a. n. a. n. a. Education n. a. n. a. n. a. Engineering, Manuf. & hgk onstruction n. a. n. a. n. a. Health & Welfare n. a. n. a. n. a. Information & hgk omm. Technologies n. a. n. a. n. a. Natural Sci., Mathematics & Statistics n. a. n. a. n. a. Social Sci., hgljournalism & Information n. a. n. a. n. a. Graduates Attainment % Female Male g37arity Vocational training n. a. n. a. n. a. PhD graduates n. a. n. a. n. a. Graduates from tertiary education n. a. n. a. n. a. Health Indicatr Unit Value Prevalence of gender violence in lifetime % women 41.00 Births attended by skilled personnel % live births 80.40 Maternal mortality deaths per 100,000 live births 85.00 Total fertility rate births per woman 4.10 Indicatr 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.hgki44 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 382