Global Gender Gap Index

The Global Gender Gap Report was first published in 2006 by the Geneva based World Economic forum

The Gender Gap Index ranks countries according to their gender gaps, and their scores can be interpreted as the percentage of the Inequality between Women and Men that has been closed

The three highest ranking countries have closed over 84% of their gender gaps, while the lowest ranking country has closed only a little over 50% of its gender gap.

The report says  “assesses countries on how well they are dividing their resources and opportunities among their male and female populations, regardless of the overall levels of these resources and opportunities

The report examines four critical areas of inequality between men and women in 130 economies around the globe, over 93% of the world’s population

• Economic Participation and Opportunity – outcomes on salaries, participation levels and access to high-skilled employment
• Educational Attainment – outcomes on access to basic and higher level education
• Political Empowerment – outcomes on representation in decision-making structures
• Health and Survival – outcomes on life expectancy and sex ratio

2012 Rank	Country	Region	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
1	Iceland	Europe	0.7813	0.7836	0.7999	0.8276	0.8496	0.8530	0.8640
2	Finland	Europe	0.7958	0.8044	0.8195	0.8252	0.8260	0.8383	0.8451
3	Norway	Europe	0.7994	0.8059	0.8239	0.8227	0.8404	0.8404	0.8403
4	Sweden	Europe	0.8133	0.8146	0.8139	0.8139	0.8024	0.8044	0.8159
5	Ireland	Europe	0.7335	0.7457	0.7518	0.7597	0.7773	0.7830	0.7839
6	New Zealand	Oceania	0.7509	0.7649	0.7859	0.7880	0.7808	0.7810	0.7805
7	Denmark	Europe	0.7462	0.7519	0.7538	0.7628	0.7719	0.7778	0.7777
8	Philippines	Southeast Asia	0.7516	0.7629	0.7568	0.7579	0.7654	0.7685	0.7757
9	Nicaragua	North America	0.6566	0.6458	0.6747	0.7002	0.7176	0.7245	0.7697
10	Switzerland	Europe	0.6997	0.6924	0.7360	0.7426	0.7562	0.7627	0.7672
11	Netherlands	Europe	0.7250	0.7383	0.7399	0.7490	0.7444	0.7470	0.7659
12	Belgium	Europe	0.7078	0.7198	0.7163	0.7165	0.7509	0.7531	0.7652
13	Germany	Europe	0.7524	0.7618	0.7394	0.7449	0.7530	0.7590	0.7629
14	Lesotho	Africa	0.6807	0.7078	0.7320	0.7495	0.7678	0.7666	0.7608
15	Latvia	Europe	0.7091	0.7333	0.7397	0.7416	0.7429	0.7399	0.7572
16	South Africa	Africa	0.7125	0.7194	0.7232	0.7709	0.7535	0.7478	0.7496
17	Luxembourg	Europe	0.6671	0.6786	0.6802	0.6889	0.7231	0.7216	0.7439
18	United Kingdom	Europe	0.7365	0.7441	0.7366	0.7402	0.7460	0.7462	0.7433
19	Cuba	North America	N/A	0.7169	0.7195	0.7176	0.7253	0.7394	0.7417
20	Austria	Europe	0.6986	0.7060	0.7153	0.7031	0.7091	0.7165	0.7391
21	Canada	North America	0.7165	0.7198	0.7136	0.7196	0.7372	0.7407	0.7381
22	United States	North America	0.7042	0.7002	0.7179	0.7173	0.7411	0.7412	0.7373
23	Mozambique	Africa	N/A	0.6883	0.7266	0.7195	0.7329	0.7251	0.7350
24	Burundi	Africa	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	0.7270	0.7338
25	Australia	Oceania	0.7163	0.7204	0.7241	0.7282	0.7271	0.7291	0.7294
26	Spain	Europe	0.7319	0.7444	0.7281	0.7345	0.7554	0.7580	0.7266
27	Barbados	North America	N/A	N/A	0.7188	0.7236	0.7176	0.7170	0.7232
28	Uganda	Africa	0.6797	0.6833	0.6981	0.7067	0.7169	0.7220	0.7228
29	Costa Rica	North America	0.6936	0.7014	0.7111	0.7180	0.7194	0.7266	0.7225
30	Bolivia	South America	0.6335	0.6574	0.6667	0.6693	0.6751	0.6862	0.7222
31	Kazakhstan	Central Asia	0.6928	0.6983	0.6976	0.7013	0.7055	0.7010	0.7213
32	Argentina	South America	0.6829	0.6982	0.7209	0.7211	0.7187	0.7236	0.7212
33	Ecuador	South America	0.6433	0.6881	0.7091	0.7220	0.7072	0.7035	0.7206
34	Lithuania	Europe	0.7077	0.7234	0.7222	0.7175	0.7132	0.7131	0.7191
35	Cape Verde	Africa	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	0.7180
36	Malawi	Africa	0.6437	0.6480	0.6664	0.6738	0.6824	0.6850	0.7166
37	Bahamas	North America	N/A	N/A	N/A	0.7179	0.7128	0.7340	0.7156
38	Slovenia	Europe and Central Asia	0.6745	0.6842	0.6937	0.6982	0.7047	0.7041	0.7132
40	Panama	North America	0.6935	0.6954	0.7095	0.7024	0.7072	0.7042	0.7122
39	Sri Lanka	South Asia	0.7199	0.7230	0.7371	0.7402	0.7458	0.7212	0.7122
41	Namibia	Africa	0.6864	0.7012	0.7141	0.7167	0.7238	0.7177	0.7121
42	Guyana	South America	N/A	N/A	N/A	0.7108	0.7090	0.7084	0.7119
43	Trinidad and Tobago	North America	0.6797	0.6859	0.7245	0.7298	0.7353	0.7372	0.7116
44	Mongolia	East Asia	0.6821	0.6731	0.7049	0.7221	0.7194	0.7140	0.7111
45	Moldova	Europe	0.7128	0.7172	0.7244	0.7104	0.7160	0.7083	0.7101
46	Tanzania	Africa	0.7038	0.6969	0.7068	0.6797	0.6829	0.6904	0.7091
47	Portugal	Europe	0.6922	0.6959	0.7051	0.7013	0.7171	0.7144	0.7071
48	Venezuela	South America	0.6664	0.6797	0.6875	0.6839	0.6863	0.6861	0.7060
49	Croatia	Europe	0.7145	0.7210	0.6967	0.6944	0.6939	0.7006	0.7053
50	Serbia	Europe	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	0.7037
51	Jamaica	North America	0.7014	0.6925	0.6980	0.7013	0.7037	0.7028	0.7035
52	Bulgaria	Europe	0.6870	0.7085	0.7077	0.7072	0.6983	0.6987	0.7021
53	Poland	Europe	0.6802	0.6756	0.6951	0.6998	0.7037	0.7038	0.7015
54	Kyrgyz Republic	Central Asia	0.6742	0.6653	0.7045	0.7058	0.6973	0.7036	0.7013
56	Israel	Middle East	0.6889	0.6965	0.6900	0.7019	0.6957	0.6926	0.6989
55	Singapore	Southeast Asia	0.6550	0.6609	0.6625	0.6664	0.6914	0.6914	0.6989
57	France	Europe	0.6520	0.6824	0.7341	0.7331	0.7025	0.7018	0.6984
58	Madagascar	Africa	0.6385	0.6461	0.6736	0.6732	0.6713	0.6797	0.6982
59	Russian Federation	Europe and Northern Asia	0.6770	0.6866	0.6994	0.6987	0.7036	0.7037	0.6980
60	Estonia	Europe	0.6944	0.7008	0.7076	0.7094	0.7018	0.6983	0.6977
61	Macedonia	Europe	0.6983	0.6967	0.6914	0.6950	0.6996	0.6966	0.6968
62	Brazil	South America	0.6543	0.6637	0.6737	0.6695	0.6655	0.6679	0.6909
63	Colombia	South America	0.7049	0.7090	0.6944	0.6939	0.6927	0.6714	0.6901
64	Ukraine	Europe	0.6797	0.6790	0.6856	0.6896	0.6869	0.6861	0.6894
65	Thailand	Southeast Asia	0.6831	0.6815	0.6917	0.6907	0.6910	0.6892	0.6893
66	Vietnam	Southeast Asia	N/A	0.6889	0.6778	0.6802	0.6776	0.6732	0.6867
67	Romania	Europe	0.6797	0.6859	0.6763	0.6805	0.6826	0.6812	0.6859
68	Timor-Leste	Southeast Asia	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	0.6855
69	China	East Asia	0.6561	0.6643	0.6878	0.6907	0.6881	0.6866	0.6853
70	Slovak Republic	Europe	0.6757	0.6797	0.6824	0.6845	0.6778	0.6797	0.6824
71	Ghana	Africa	0.6653	0.6725	0.6679	0.6704	0.6782	0.6811	0.6778
72	Kenya	Africa	0.6486	0.6508	0.6547	0.6512	0.6499	0.6493	0.6768
73	Czech Republic	Europe	0.6712	0.6718	0.6770	0.6789	0.6850	0.6789	0.6767
74	Honduras	North America	0.6483	0.6661	0.6960	0.6893	0.6927	0.6945	0.6763
75	Brunei Darussalam	Southeast Asia	N/A	N/A	0.6392	0.6524	0.6748	0.6787	0.6750
76	Uruguay	South America	0.6549	0.6608	0.6907	0.6936	0.6897	0.6907	0.6745
77	Botswana	Africa	0.6897	0.6797	0.6839	0.7071	0.6876	0.6832	0.6744
78	Peru	South America	0.6619	0.6624	0.6959	0.7024	0.6895	0.6796	0.6742
79	Cyprus	Europe and Middle East	0.6430	0.6522	0.6694	0.6706	0.6642	0.6567	0.6732
80	Italy	Europe	0.6456	0.6498	0.6788	0.6798	0.6765	0.6796	0.6729
81	Hungary	Europe	0.6698	0.6731	0.6867	0.6879	0.6720	0.6642	0.6718
82	Greece	Europe	0.6540	0.6648	0.6727	0.6662	0.6908	0.6916	0.6716
83	Paraguay	South America	0.6556	0.6659	0.6379	0.6868	0.6804	0.6818	0.6714
84	Mexico	North America	0.6462	0.6441	0.6441	0.6503	0.6577	0.6604	0.6712
85	Georgia	Europe and Central Asia	0.6700	0.6665	0.6654	0.6680	0.6598	0.6624	0.6691
86	Bangladesh	South Asia	0.6270	0.6314	0.6531	0.6526	0.6702	0.6812	0.6684
87	Chile	South America	0.6455	0.6482	0.6818	0.6884	0.7013	0.7030	0.6676
88	Malta	Europe and Central Asia	0.6518	0.6615	0.6634	0.6635	0.6695	0.6658	0.6666
89	Dominican Republic	North America	0.6639	0.6705	0.6744	0.6859	0.6774	0.6682	0.6659
90	Senegal	Africa	N/A	N/A	N/A	0.6427	0.6414	0.6573	0.6657
91	Albania	Europe	0.6607	0.6685	0.6591	0.6601	0.6726	0.6748	0.6655
92	Armenia	Europe and Central Asia	N/A	0.6651	0.6677	0.6619	0.6669	0.6654	0.6636
94	El Salvador	North America	0.6837	0.6853	0.6875	0.6939	0.6596	0.6567	0.6630
93	Gambia, The	Africa	0.6448	0.6421	0.6622	0.6752	0.6762	0.6763	0.6630
95	Maldives	South Asia	N/A	0.6350	0.6501	0.6482	0.6452	0.6480	0.6616
96	Tajikistan	Central Asia	N/A	0.6578	0.6541	0.6661	0.6598	0.6526	0.6608
97	Indonesia	Southeast Asia	0.6541	0.6550	0.6473	0.6580	0.6615	0.6594	0.6591
98	Mauritius	Africa	0.6328	0.6487	0.6466	0.6513	0.6520	0.6529	0.6547
99	Azerbaijan	Europe and Central Asia	N/A	0.6781	0.6856	0.6626	0.6446	0.6577	0.6546
100	Malaysia	Southeast Asia	0.6509	0.6444	0.6442	0.6467	0.6479	0.6525	0.6539
101	Japan	East Asia	0.6447	0.6455	0.6434	0.6447	0.6524	0.6514	0.6530
102	Belize	North America	N/A	0.6426	0.6610	0.6636	0.6536	0.6489	0.6465
103	Cambodia	Southeast Asia	0.6291	0.6353	0.6469	0.6410	0.6482	0.6464	0.6457
104	Burkina Faso	Africa	0.5854	0.5912	0.6029	0.6081	0.6162	0.6153	0.6455
105	India	South Asia	0.6011	0.5936	0.6060	0.6151	0.6155	0.6190	0.6442
106	Suriname	South America	N/A	0.6794	0.6674	0.6726	0.6407	0.6395	0.6409
107	United Arab Emirates	Middle East	0.5919	0.6184	0.6220	0.6198	0.6397	0.6454	0.6392
108	Korea, Rep.	East Asia	0.6157	0.6409	0.6154	0.6146	0.6342	0.6281	0.6356
109	Kuwait	Middle East	0.6341	0.6409	0.6358	0.6356	0.6318	0.6322	0.6320
110	Nigeria	Africa	0.6104	0.6122	0.6339	0.6280	0.6055	0.6011	0.6315
111	Bahrain	Middle East	0.5894	0.5931	0.5927	0.6136	0.6217	0.6232	0.6298
112	Cameroon	Africa	0.5865	0.5919	0.6017	0.6108	0.6110	0.6073	0.6291
113	Fiji	Oceania	N/A	N/A	N/A	0.6414	0.6256	0.6255	0.6285
114	Zambia	Africa	0.6360	0.6288	0.6205	0.6310	0.6293	0.6300	0.6279
115	Qatar	Middle East	N/A	0.6041	0.5948	0.5907	0.6059	0.6230	0.6264
116	Guatemala	North America	0.6067	0.6144	0.6072	0.6209	0.6238	0.6229	0.6260
117	Benin	Africa	0.5780	0.5656	0.5582	0.5643	0.5719	0.5832	0.6258
118	Ethiopia	Africa	0.5946	0.5991	0.5867	0.5948	0.6019	0.6136	0.6200
119	Mauritania	Africa	0.5835	0.6022	0.6117	0.6103	0.6152	0.6164	0.6129
120	Algeria	Africa	0.6018	0.6068	0.6111	0.6119	0.6052	0.5991	0.6112
121	Jordan	Middle East	0.6109	0.6203	0.6275	0.6182	0.6048	0.6117	0.6103
122	Lebanon	Middle East	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	0.6084	0.6083	0.6030
123	Nepal	Central Asia	0.5478	0.5575	0.5942	0.6213	0.6084	0.5888	0.6026
124	Turkey	Middle East and Europe	0.5850	0.5768	0.5853	0.5828	0.5876	0.5954	0.6015
125	Oman	Middle East	N/A	0.5903	0.5960	0.5938	0.5950	0.5873	0.5986
126	Egypt	Middle East and Africa	0.5786	0.5809	0.5832	0.5862	0.5899	0.5933	0.5975
127	Iran, Islamic Rep.	Middle East	0.5803	0.5903	0.6021	0.5839	0.5933	0.5894	0.5927
128	Mali	Africa	0.5996	0.6019	0.6117	0.5860	0.5680	0.5752	0.5842
129	Morocco	Africa	0.5827	0.5676	0.5757	0.5926	0.5767	0.5804	0.5833
130	Côte d'Ivoire	Africa	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	0.5691	0.5773	0.5785
131	Saudi Arabia	Middle East	0.5242	0.5647	0.5537	0.5651	0.5713	0.5753	0.5731
132	Syria	Middle East	N/A	0.6216	0.6181	0.6072	0.5926	0.5896	0.5626
133	Chad	Africa	0.5247	0.5381	0.5290	0.5417	0.5330	0.5334	0.5594
134	Pakistan	Central Asia	0.5434	0.5509	0.5549	0.5458	0.5465	0.5583	0.5478
135	Yemen	Middle East	0.4595	0.4510	0.4664	0.4609	0.4603	0.4873	0.5054
N/A	Angola	Africa	0.6039	0.6034	0.6032	0.6353	0.6712	0.6624	N/A
N/A	Tunisia	Africa	0.6288	0.6283	0.6295	0.6233	0.6266	0.6255	N/A
N/A	Zimbabwe	Africa	0.6461	0.6464	0.6485	0.6518	0.6574	0.6607	N/A