Gender Inequality Index
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Gender Inequality Index measures equality between men and women. It is composed of indicators on reproductive health (maternal mortality, adolescent fertility rate, and women’s access to health care), empowerment (women’s secondary school attendance, higher education achievement levels, and parliamentary seats), and labor market (women’s share in the labor force).
The Gender Inequality Index generally ranges from 0 to 1. A value 0 means maximum equality, and 1 means maximum inequality.
On the map below, red color indicates more gender inequality and green more equality.
Top 20 highest-ranked countries in terms of gender equality (2019)
- Switzerland – 0.025
- Norway – 0.038
- Finland – 0.039
- Netherlands – 0.043
- Denmark – 0.043
- Sweden – 0.045
- Belgium – 0.045
- South Korea – 0.047
- France – 0.049
- Iceland – 0.058
- Slovenia – 0.063
- Taiwan – 0.064
- Luxembourg – 0.065
- Singapore – 0.065
- Austria – 0.069
- Italy – 0.069
- Spain – 0.070
- Japan – 0.075
- Portugal – 0.079
- Canada – 0.080
- Germany – 0.084
Top 20 lowest-ranked countries in terms of gender equality (2019)
- Yemen – 0.795
- Papua New Guinea – 0.725
- Chad – 0.710
- Central African Republic – 0.680
- Mali – 0.671
- Afghanistan – 0.655
- Liberia – 0.650
- Sierra Leone – 0.644
- Niger – 0.642
- Côte d’Ivoire – 0.638
- Haiti – 0.636
- Mauritania – 0.634
- Democratic Republic of the Congo – 0.617
- Benin – 0.612
- Gambia – 0.612
- Burkina Faso – 0.594
- Iraq – 0.577
- Togo – 0.573
- Republic of the Congo – 0.570
- Eswatini – 0.567
In general, in recent years, there has been a downward trend in the index.
According to Global Gender Gap Report, if this trend continues, it will about 136 years to close the gender gap worldwide (in politics 146 and 268 in economics).
