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Global Gender Gap Index

Gender Parity Intelligence
WEF GGGI  |  148 economies  |  2025
Data Intelligence Report

Global Gender Gap
Index 2025

How far 148 economies have closed the gap between women and men in economic participation, education, health and political empowerment. Scores run from 0 to 1, where 1 means full parity.

Source: WEF Global Gender Gap Report 2025

Region
Measure

Average gap closed
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Top performer
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Political empowerment
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Average gap closed — weakest dimension
Economic participation
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Average gap closed
Biggest climber vs 2024
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World Map
Darker = wider gender gap · brighter teal = closer to parity · hover a country for its score and rank

Geography

How Much of the Gap Is Still Open?
Average distance from parity, by dimension

Gap to Parity

Gap remaining = (1 − average score) × 100. Lower is better.

Where Countries Actually Differ
Spread of scores across economies in each dimension

Distribution

Thin line = lowest to highest score · box = middle 50% of economies · ◆ = median. Health and education are bunched near 1, so differences between countries come mostly from politics and the economy.

Regional Averages
Mean score by WEF region

Regions

Simple average of economies in each region; North America has only 2 economies.

Economic vs Political Empowerment
The two dimensions that drive the overall ranking hardly move together

Relationship

Each dot is one economy, coloured by region.

Top 10
Highest scores

Leaders

Bottom 10
Lowest scores

Laggards

Biggest Movers Since 2024
Change in overall rank — places gained or lost

Change

Excludes Gabon, Papua New Guinea and Trinidad and Tobago (new in 2025) and Burkina Faso and Timor-Leste (no 2024 rank).

Country Profile
One economy against its region and the world

Profile

Complete Data Reference Table
Click a column heading to sort · search by name · follows the region filter

Full Dataset


Scores 0–1 (1 = parity). Rank change: ▲ moved up, ▼ moved down since 2024; n/a = no 2024 rank. Bar length is proportional to the score.

Key findings · all 148 economies
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Politics decides the ranking

Political empowerment is only 25.8% closed on average, against about 97% for health and education. It has the widest spread of any dimension and tracks the overall score most closely (r = 0.84), so it largely sets who ranks where.

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Bangladesh jumps 75 places

Bangladesh rose from 99th to 24th, carried by a political empowerment score of 0.721 (3rd in the world). Its economic participation still ranks 141st, which shows how a headline rank can hide a deep economic gap.

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India: the economic gap

India ranks 131st overall (0.644). Education is close to parity (0.971), but economic participation and opportunity scores 0.407, which puts it 144th of 148 economies. That is the single largest drag on its score.

Source: World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Report 2025, Tables 1.1 and 1.3. Notes: Ranks are as published and tied economies share a rank (35 economies are joint 1st in Educational Attainment and 17 in Health and Survival). Scores are capped at 1, so a lead for women counts the same as parity. 2024 ranks are derived from the published rank change. Dashboard by 360 Analytika.

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