The Global Gender Gap Report was first published in 2006 by the World Economic Forum

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. The 2010 report covers 134 major and emerging economies.

The Report’s Gender Gap Index ranks countries according to their gender gaps and their scores can be interpreted as the percentage of the inequality between women and men that has been closed. Information about gender imbalances to the advantage of women is explicitly prevented from affecting the score. The three highest ranking countries have closed a little over 80% of their gender gaps, while the lowest ranking country has closed only a little over 45% of its gender gap. It “assesses countries on how well they are dividing their resources and opportunities among their male and female populations, regardless of the overall levels of these resources and opportunities,” the Report says. “By providing a comprehensible framework for assessing and comparing global gender gaps and by revealing those countries that are role models in dividing these resources equitably between women and men, the Report serves as a catalyst for greater awareness as well as greater exchange between policymakers.”

The Report examines four critical areas of inequality between men and women in 130 economies around the globe, over 92% of the world’s population:

1. Economic participation and opportunity – outcomes on salaries, participation levels and access to high-skilled employment

2. Educational attainment – outcomes on access to basic and higher level education

3. Political empowerment – outcomes on representation in decision-making structures

4. Health and survival – outcomes on life expectancy and sex ratio

Thirteen out of the 14 variables used to create the Index are from publicly available “hard data” indicators from international organizations, such as the International Labour Organization

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, the United Nations Development Programme

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 and the World Health Organization

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Global Gender Gap Index rankings

The table is initially sorted according to the 2011 ranking. The highest possible score is 1 (equality) and the lowest possible score is 0 (inequality). Data for some countries is unavailable.

Rank	Country	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
1	Iceland	0.7813	0.7836	0.7999	0.8276	0.8496	0.8530
2	Norway	0.7994	0.8059	0.8239	0.8227	0.8404	0.8404
3	Finland	0.7958	0.8044	0.8195	0.8252	0.8260	0.8383
4	Sweden	0.8133	0.8146	0.8139	0.8139	0.8024	0.8044
5	Republic of Ireland	0.7335	0.7457	0.7518	0.7597	0.7773	0.7830
6	New Zealand	0.7509	0.7649	0.7859	0.7880	0.7808	0.7810
7	Denmark	0.7462	0.7519	0.7538	0.7628	0.7719	0.7778
8	Philippines	0.7516	0.7629	0.7568	0.7579	0.7654	0.7685
9	Lesotho	0.6807	0.7078	0.7320	0.7495	0.7678	0.7666
10	Switzerland	0.6997	0.6924	0.7360	0.7426	0.7562	0.7627
11	Germany	0.7524	0.7618	0.7394	0.7449	0.7530	0.7590
12	Spain	0.7319	0.7444	0.7281	0.7345	0.7554	0.7580
13	Belgium	0.7078	0.7198	0.7163	0.7165	0.7509	0.7531
14	South Africa	0.7125	0.7194	0.7232	0.7709	0.7535	0.7478
15	Netherlands	0.7250	0.7383	0.7399	0.7490	0.7444	0.7470
16	United Kingdom	0.7365	0.7441	0.7366	0.7402	0.7460	0.7462
17	United States	0.7042	0.7002	0.7179	0.7173	0.7411	0.7412
18	Canada	0.7165	0.7198	0.7136	0.7196	0.7372	0.7407
19	Latvia	0.7091	0.7333	0.7397	0.7416	0.7429	0.7399
20	Cuba	n/a	0.7169	0.7195	0.7176	0.7253	0.7394
21	Trinidad and Tobago	0.6797	0.6859	0.7245	0.7298	0.7353	0.7372
22	The Bahamas	n/a	n/a	n/a	0.7179	0.7128	0.7340
23	Australia	0.7163	0.7204	0.7241	0.7282	0.7271	0.7291
24	Burundi	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0.7270
25	Costa Rica	0.6936	0.7014	0.7111	0.7180	0.7194	0.7266
26	Mozambique	n/a	0.6883	0.7266	0.7195	0.7329	0.7251
27	Nicaragua	0.6566	0.6458	0.6747	0.7002	0.7176	0.7245
28	Argentina	0.6829	0.6982	0.7209	0.7211	0.7187	0.7236
29	Uganda	0.6797	0.6833	0.6981	0.7067	0.7169	0.7220
30	Luxembourg	0.6671	0.6786	0.6802	0.6889	0.7231	0.7216
31	Sri Lanka	0.7199	0.7230	0.7371	0.7402	0.7458	0.7212
32	Namibia	0.6864	0.7012	0.7141	0.7167	0.7238	0.7177
33	Barbados	n/a	n/a	0.7188	0.7236	0.7176	0.7170
34	Austria	0.6986	0.7060	0.7153	0.7031	0.7091	0.7165
35	Portugal	0.6922	0.6959	0.7051	0.7013	0.7171	0.7144
36	Mongolia	0.6821	0.6731	0.7049	0.7221	0.7194	0.7140
37	Lithuania	0.7077	0.7234	0.7222	0.7175	0.7132	0.7131
38	Guyana	n/a	n/a	n/a	0.7108	0.7090	0.7084
39	Moldova	0.7128	0.7172	0.7244	0.7104	0.7160	0.7083
40	Panama	0.6935	0.6954	0.7095	0.7024	0.7072	0.7042
41	Slovenia	0.6745	0.6842	0.6937	0.6982	0.7047	0.7041
42	Poland	0.6802	0.6756	0.6951	0.6998	0.7037	0.7038
43	Russia	0.6770	0.6866	0.6994	0.6987	0.7036	0.7037
44	Kyrgyzstan	0.6742	0.6653	0.7045	0.7058	0.6973	0.7036
45	Ecuador	0.6433	0.6881	0.7091	0.7220	0.7072	0.7035
46	Chile	0.6455	0.6482	0.6818	0.6884	0.7013	0.7030
47	Jamaica	0.7014	0.6925	0.6980	0.7013	0.7037	0.7028
48	Early Modern France	0.6520	0.6824	0.7341	0.7331	0.7025	0.7018
49	Kazakhstan	0.6928	0.6983	0.6976	0.7013	0.7055	0.7010
50	Independent State of Croatia	0.7145	0.7210	0.6967	0.6944	0.6939	0.7006
51	Kingdom of Bulgaria	0.6870	0.7085	0.7077	0.7072	0.6983	0.6987
52	Estonia	0.6944	0.7008	0.7076	0.7094	0.7018	0.6983
53	Republic of Macedonia	0.6983	0.6967	0.6914	0.6950	0.6996	0.6966
54	Honduras	0.6483	0.6661	0.6960	0.6893	0.6927	0.6945
55	Israel	0.6889	0.6965	0.6900	0.7019	0.6957	0.6926
56	Greece	0.6540	0.6648	0.6727	0.6662	0.6908	0.6916
57	Singapore	0.6550	0.6609	0.6625	0.6664	0.6914	0.6914
58	Uruguay	0.6549	0.6608	0.6907	0.6936	0.6897	0.6907
59	Tanzania	0.7038	0.6969	0.7068	0.6797	0.6829	0.6904
60	Thailand	0.6831	0.6815	0.6917	0.6907	0.6910	0.6892
61	Mainland China	0.6561	0.6643	0.6878	0.6907	0.6881	0.6866
62	Bolivia	0.6335	0.6574	0.6667	0.6693	0.6751	0.6862
63	Venezuela	0.6664	0.6797	0.6875	0.6839	0.6863	0.6861
64	Ukraine	0.6797	0.6790	0.6856	0.6896	0.6869	0.6861
65	Malawi	0.6437	0.6480	0.6664	0.6738	0.6824	0.6850
66	Botswana	0.6897	0.6797	0.6839	0.7071	0.6876	0.6832
67	Paraguay	0.6556	0.6659	0.6379	0.6868	0.6804	0.6818
68	Kingdom of Romania	0.6797	0.6859	0.6763	0.6805	0.6826	0.6812
69	Bangladesh	0.6270	0.6314	0.6531	0.6526	0.6702	0.6812
70	Ghana	0.6653	0.6725	0.6679	0.6704	0.6782	0.6811
71	Madagascar	0.6385	0.6461	0.6736	0.6732	0.6713	0.6797
72	Slovakia	0.6757	0.6797	0.6824	0.6845	0.6778	0.6797
73	Peru	0.6619	0.6624	0.6959	0.7024	0.6895	0.6796
74	Italy	0.6456	0.6498	0.6788	0.6798	0.6765	0.6796
75	Czech Republic	0.6712	0.6718	0.6770	0.6789	0.6850	0.6789
76	Brunei	n/a	n/a	0.6392	0.6524	0.6748	0.6787
77		0.6448	0.6421	0.6622	0.6752	0.6762	0.6763
78	Albania	0.6607	0.6685	0.6591	0.6601	0.6726	0.6748
79	Vietnam	n/a	0.6889	0.6778	0.6802	0.6776	0.6732
80	Colombia	0.7049	0.7090	0.6944	0.6939	0.6927	0.6714
81	Dominican Republic	0.6639	0.6705	0.6744	0.6859	0.6774	0.6682
82	Brazil	0.6543	0.6637	0.6737	0.6695	0.6655	0.6679
83	Malta	0.6518	0.6615	0.6634	0.6635	0.6695	0.6658
84	Armenia	n/a	0.6651	0.6677	0.6619	0.6669	0.6654
85	Hungary	0.6698	0.6731	0.6867	0.6879	0.6720	0.6642
86	Georgia (country)	0.6700	0.6665	0.6654	0.6680	0.6598	0.6624
87	Angola	0.6039	0.6034	0.6032	0.6353	0.6712	0.6624
88	Zimbabwe	0.6461	0.6464	0.6485	0.6518	0.6574	0.6607
89	Mexico	0.6462	0.6441	0.6441	0.6503	0.6577	0.6604
90	Indonesia	0.6541	0.6550	0.6473	0.6580	0.6615	0.6594
91	Azerbaijan	n/a	0.6781	0.6856	0.6626	0.6446	0.6577
92	Senegal	n/a	n/a	n/a	0.6427	0.6414	0.6573
93	Cyprus	0.6430	0.6522	0.6694	0.6706	0.6642	0.6567
94	El Salvador	0.6837	0.6853	0.6875	0.6939	0.6596	0.6567
95	Mauritius	0.6328	0.6487	0.6466	0.6513	0.6520	0.6529
96	Tajikistan	n/a	0.6578	0.6541	0.6661	0.6598	0.6526
97	Malaysia	0.6509	0.6444	0.6442	0.6467	0.6479	0.6525
98	Japan	0.6447	0.6455	0.6434	0.6447	0.6524	0.6514
99	Kenya	0.6486	0.6508	0.6547	0.6512	0.6499	0.6493
100	Belize	n/a	0.6426	0.6610	0.6636	0.6536	0.6489
101	Maldives	n/a	0.6350	0.6501	0.6482	0.6452	0.6480
102	Cambodia	0.6291	0.6353	0.6469	0.6410	0.6482	0.6464
103	United Arab Emirates	0.5919	0.6184	0.6220	0.6198	0.6397	0.6454
104	Suriname	n/a	0.6794	0.6674	0.6726	0.6407	0.6395
105	Kuwait	0.6341	0.6409	0.6358	0.6356	0.6318	0.6322
106	Zambia	0.6360	0.6288	0.6205	0.6310	0.6293	0.6300
107	South Korea	0.6157	0.6409	0.6154	0.6146	0.6342	0.6281
108	Tunisia	0.6288	0.6283	0.6295	0.6233	0.6266	0.6255
109	Fiji	n/a	n/a	n/a	0.6414	0.6256	0.6255
110	Bahrain	0.5894	0.5931	0.5927	0.6136	0.6217	0.6232
111	Qatar	n/a	0.6041	0.5948	0.5907	0.6059	0.6230
112	Guatemala	0.6067	0.6144	0.6072	0.6209	0.6238	0.6229
113	India	0.6011	0.5936	0.6060	0.6151	0.6155	0.6190
114	Mauritania	0.5835	0.6022	0.6117	0.6103	0.6152	0.6164
115	Burkina Faso	0.5854	0.5912	0.6029	0.6081	0.6162	0.6153
116	Ethiopia	0.5946	0.5991	0.5867	0.5948	0.6019	0.6136
117	Jordan	0.6109	0.6203	0.6275	0.6182	0.6048	0.6117
118	Lebanon	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0.6084	0.6083
119	Cameroon	0.5865	0.5919	0.6017	0.6108	0.6110	0.6073
120	Nigeria	0.6104	0.6122	0.6339	0.6280	0.6055	0.6011
121	Algeria	0.6018	0.6068	0.6111	0.6119	0.6052	0.5991
122	Turkey	0.5850	0.5768	0.5853	0.5828	0.5876	0.5954
123	Egypt	0.5786	0.5809	0.5832	0.5862	0.5899	0.5933
124	Syria	n/a	0.6216	0.6181	0.6072	0.5926	0.5896
125	Iran	0.5803	0.5903	0.6021	0.5839	0.5933	0.5894
126	Nepal	0.5478	0.5575	0.5942	0.6213	0.6084	0.5888
127	Oman	n/a	0.5903	0.5960	0.5938	0.5950	0.5873
128	Benin	0.5780	0.5656	0.5582	0.5643	0.5719	0.5832
129	Morocco	0.5827	0.5676	0.5757	0.5926	0.5767	0.5804
130	Côte d'Ivoire	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0.5691	0.5773
131	Saudi Arabia	0.5242	0.5647	0.5537	0.5651	0.5713	0.5753
132	Mali	0.5996	0.6019	0.6117	0.5860	0.5680	0.5752
133	Pakistan	0.5434	0.5509	0.5549	0.5458	0.5465	0.5583
134	Chad	0.5247	0.5381	0.5290	0.5417	0.5330	0.5334
135	Yemen	0.4595	0.4510	0.4664	0.4609	0.4603	0.4873

Africa

5 highest GGIs

Rank	Country	GGI
		2009 data	Change compared to 2008 data
1	South Africa	0.7709	+0.0337
2	Lesotho	0.7495	+0.0175
3	Mozambique	0.7195	-0.0071
4	Namibia	0.7167	+0.0026
5	Botswana	0.7071	+0.0232

5 lowest GGIs

Rank	Country	GGI
		2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
1	Chad	0.5417	+0.0127
2	Benin	0.5643	+0.0061
3	Mali	0.5860	-0.0257
4	Ethiopia	0.5948	+0.0081
5	Burkina Faso	0.6081	+0.0052

North America

5 highest GGIs

Rank	Country	GGI
		2010 data	Change compared to 2009 data
1	United States	0.7411	+0.0238
2	Canada	0.7372	+0.0176
3	Trinidad and Tobago	0.7353	+0.0055
4	Costa Rica	0.7194	+0.0014
5	The Bahamas	0.7128	-0.0051

5 lowest GGIs

Rank	Country	GGI
		2010 data	Change compared to 2009 data
1	Guatemala	0.6238	+0.0029
2	Belize	0.6536	-0.0100
3	Mexico	0.6577	+0.0074
4	El Salvador	0.6596	-0.0343
5	Dominican Republic	0.6774	-0.0085

South America

5 highest GGIs

Rank	Country	GGI
		2011 data	Change compared to 2010 data
1	Argentina	0.7238	+0.0051
2	Guyana	0.7084	-0.0006
3	Ecuador	0.7035	-0.0037
4	Chile	0.7030	+0.0017
5	Uruguay	0.6907	+0.0010

5 lowest GGIs

Rank	Country	GGI
		2011 data	Change compared to 2010 data
1	Suriname	0.6395	-0.0012
2	Brazil	0.6679	+0.0024
3	Colombia	0.6714	-0.0213
4	Peru	0.6796	-0.0099
5	Paraguay	0.6818	+0.0014

Asia

5 highest GGIs

Rank	Country	GGI
		2009 data	Change compared to 2008 data
1	Philippines	0.7579	+0.0011
2	Sri Lanka	0.7402	+0.0031
3	Mongolia	0.7221	+0.0172
4	Thailand	0.6907	-0.0010
5	Mainland China	0.6907	+0.0029

5 lowest GGIs

Rank	Country	GGI
		2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
1	Pakistan	0.5458	-0.0091
2	South Korea	0.6146	+0.0008
3	India	0.6151	+0.0091
4	Nepal	0.6213	+0.0271
5	Cambodia	0.6410	-0.0059

Europe

5 highest GGIs

Rank	Country	GGI
		2010 data	Change compared to 2009 data
1	Iceland	0.8496	+0.0220
2	Norway	0.8404	+0.0177
3	Finland	0.8260	+0.0008
4	Sweden	0.8024	–0.0116
5	Republic of Ireland	0.7773	+0.0177

5 lowest GGIs

Rank	Country	GGI
		2007 data	Change compared to 2006 data
1	Albania	0.6601	+0.0010
2	Malta	0.6635	+0.0001
3	Greece	0.6662	-0.0065
4	Czech Republic	0.6789	+0.0019
5	Italy	0.6798	+0.0010

North Africa & the Middle East

5 highest GGIs

Rank	Country	GGI
		2011 data	Change compared to 2010 data
1	Israel	0.6926	-0.0031
2	Armenia	0.6654	-0.0015
3	Georgia (country)	0.6624	+0.0026
4	Azerbaijan	0.6577	-0.0075
5	Cyprus	0.6567	+0.0131

5 lowest GGIs

Rank	Country	GGI
		2011 data	Change compared to 2010 data
1	Yemen	0.4873	+0.0270
2	Saudi Arabia	0.5753	+0.0040
3	Morocco	0.5804	+0.0037
4	Oman	0.5873	-0.0077
5	Iran	0.5894	-0.0039

Oceania

5 highest GGIs

Rank	Country	GGI
		2009 data	Change compared to 2008 data
1	New Zealand	0.7880	+0.0021
2	Australia	0.7282	+0.0041
3	Fiji	0.6414	NA
4	NA
5	NA