Global Gender Gap Report 2023:

 Global Gender Gap Report 2023:

•  Released by World Economic Forum (WEF) 
• Since its inception in 2006 it is 17th edition
• This year, the Global Gender Gap Index benchmarks 146 countries, providing a basis for robust cross-country analysis. Of these, a subset of 102 countries have been represented in every edition of the index since 2006
• The Global Gender Gap Index benchmarks gender parity across four key dimensions or sub-indices — economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment and 14 indicators.
• The Global Gender Gap Index measures scores on a 0 to 100 scale and scores can be interpreted as the distance covered towards parity (i.e., the percentage of the gender gap that has been closed).
• The global gender gap score in 2023 stands at 68.4%, indicating a modest improvement of 0.3% points compared to the previous year.
•  At the current rate of progress, it would take 131 years to achieve full gender parity, showing a significant slowdown in the overall rate of change.
• Iceland is the most gender-equal country in the world for the 14th consecutive year and the only country to have closed more than 90% of its gender gap. While no country has yet achieved full gender parity, the top nine ranking countries have closed at least 80% of their gap.
• For the 146 countries covered in the 2023 index

Health and Survival gender gap has closed by 96%,
Educational Attainment gap by 95.2% and is projected to close in 16 years,
Economic Participation and Opportunity gap by 60.1%, and is projected to close in 169 years.
Political Empowerment gap by 22.1% and a projected timeline of 162 years to close the gap.

• Iceland, Norway, Finland, New Zealand and Sweden are the top five countries on the list respectively.