Share of gender gap closed globally by category 2023

There are significant gender gaps across economic, educational attainment, health, survival, and political empowerment dimensions worldwide. According to the Global Gender Index, the global gender gap considering educational attainment as well as health and survival were almost closed as of 2023. By contrast, differences among men and women remained significantly larger on political empowerment, where only 22 percent of the gap was closed.

Percentage of gender gap closed worldwide as of 2023, by dimension

Characteristic	Percentage points
The Global Gender Gap	68.4%
Health and Survival	96%
Educational Attainment	95.2%
Economic Participation and Opportunity	60.1%
Political Empowerment	22.1%

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Release date

June 2023

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Worldwide

Survey time period

2023

Supplementary notes

The Global Gender Gap Index, is a framework for capturing the magnitude and scope of gender-based disparities and tracking their progress. The Index benchmarks national gender gaps on economic, political, education- and health-based criteria, and is based on a total of 14 indicators from these categories.

Population-weighted averages,

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