Women More Often Worried About Financial Future

Women around the world are more likely than men to worry about their financial future. This is according to a Statista Consumer Insights survey carried out between October 2024 and September 2025. As women in many countries continue to be less financially independent than men, face more hurdles in the workplace and more often shoulder unpaid domestic tasks like child or elder care, finances are an important topic governing female self-determination, wealth, success and even safety.

Out of 27 countries surveyed, women in 22 were at least slightly more worried than their male counterparts about their financial future. The biggest gap opened in Finland with 51 percent of women but only 32 percent of males worried about the prospect. The same gap stood at 10 percentage points in France and Australia. In three countries – Mexico, the Philippines and Thailand – men and women worried the same, while in two, Italy and Colombia, men actually worried more. Gaps in worry appeared smaller in Asian countries, while some of the largest were observed in English-speaking countries.

In 19 out of 27 countries, women also felt slighly less well informed about their personal financial situation than males. However, only in 11, this gap was larger than two percentage points. Women felt significantly less informed in Colombia and Italy as well as Japan, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates. In South Korea, India as well as Austria, women felt better informed and still worried more about finances.