Labor market gender gap index in Belize 2023, by area

Belize scored 0.72 in the gender gap index area of economic participation and opportunity. This shows that women are at a 23 percent disadvantage in the economy in comparison to men. The country scored 0.68 in estimated earned income, which represents that, on average, women in Belize only earn 68 percent of the income earned by men. Along with Guatemala, and Dominican Republic, Belize had one of the worst gender gap index scores in Latin America and the Caribbean.