Global Gender Gap Index 2022

Global Gender Gap (GGG) Index 2022

Global Gender Gap (GGG) Index: released on 13 July 2022

The index released by: World Economic Forum

• This year, the report covers 146 countries, including for the first time Comoros.
• Iceland is on top rank with a score 0.908
• The rank of India: 135 out of 146 countries. In 2021 the rank of India was 140 out of 156 Countries.
• Afghanistan on 146^th (last) rank with a minimum score 0.435; (43.5%)

About:

The GGG index was first introduced by the World Economic Forum in 2006 to benchmark progress toward gender parity and compare countries’ gender gaps across four dimensions:

• Economic opportunities
• Education
• Health
• Political leadership.

World Economic forum:

• It is the International organization for Public-Private Cooperation.
• World Economic Forum was established in 1971 as a not-for-profit foundation.
• Its headquarter is in Geneva, Switzerland.

Top Five Ranking Countries in Global Gender Gap Index 2022

The top five ranking countries are:

1. Iceland
2. Finland
3. Norway
4. New Zealand
5. Sweden

Five bottom countries:

1. Chad
2. Iran
3. Congo Democratic rep.
4. Pakistan
5. Afghanistan

2022’s most improving and declined countries in closing their gender gap:

The Most Improving countries:

• Vanuatu – score: (67%, +4.5 percentage points since the previous edition)
• Kenya – (72.9%, +3.7 percentage points)
• Saudi Arabia- (63.6%, +3.3 percentage points)

Most Declined countries:

• Algeria (60.2%, -3 percentage points)
• Malawi (63.2%, -3.9 percentage points)
• Benin (61.2%, -4.1 percentage points)

Performance by sub-index-

The result for 2022 shows across the 146 countries covered by the index is closed by:

• the health and survival gender gap has closed by 95.8%,
• the Educational Attainment by 94.4%
• the Economic Participation and opportunity 60.3%
• the Political Empowerment by 22%

Economic Participation and Opportunity:

The subindex shows increased deviation from last year between economies, with the lowest standing at 18% (Afghanistan) and the highest at 88% (Lao PDR).

• Pakistan is the country where women have the smallest share of senior, managerial and legislative roles (4.5%)

Educational Attainment:

• Countries’ performance varied between rates ranging from 48% to 100% on this dimension.

Health and Survival Subindex:

In this dimension, most countries are positioned near parity.

• Across the entire index, 141 countries across all regions have closed at least 95% of their health gender gaps.
• Qatar, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, China, and India are the five countries with gender gaps larger than 5%.

Political Empowerment:

The subindex shows no overall progress against last year, with virtually no change in the three indicators that constitute it.

India in Global Gender Gap Index 2022:

India in the index:

• India secured 135^th rank in GGG Index.
• In 2022 India scores 0.629, which is the 7^th highest score in the last 16 years.
• In comparison to 2021, the share of women legislators, senior officials, and managers increased from 14.6% to 17.6%.
• The share of women as professional and technical workers grew from 29.2% to 32.9%.

 

The rank of neighbour countries of India in the Global Gender Gap Index 2022:

The rank of neighbour countries of India in the Global Gender Gap Index 2022
Country	Rank
Bangladesh	71
Nepal	96
China	102
Sri Lanka	110
Bhutan	126
Pakistan	145

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Source:

https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-gender-gap-report-2022/in-full

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