June 2023 Global Gender Gap Report 2023 1 Benchmarking gender gaps, 2023 The Global Gender Gap Index was 昀椀rst introduced The goal of the report is to offer a consistent annual by the World Economic Forum in 2006 to metric for the assessment of progress over time. benchmark progress towards gender parity and Using the methodology introduced in 2006, the compare countries’ gender gaps across four index and the analysis focus on benchmarking dimensions: economic opportunities, education, parity between women and men across countries health and political leadership. and regions. FIGURE 1.1 The Global Gender Gap Index Framework The level of progress toward gender parity (the parity score) for each indicator is calculated as Subindex 1 the ratio of the value of each indicator for women Economic Participation and Opportunity to the value for men. A parity score of 1 indicates full parity. The gender gap is the distance from full Subindex 2 parity. Educational Attainment The analysis in this report is focused on assessing Subindex 3 gender gaps between women and men across Health and Survival economic, educational, health and political outcomes based on the data available (Figure 1.1). Subindex 4 Political Empowerment For further information on the index methodology, please refer to Appendix B. Source World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Index, 2023. 1.1 Country coverage To ensure a global representation of the gender It should be noted that there may be time lags in gap, the report aims to cover as many economies the data collection and validation processes across as possible. For a country to be included, it must the organizations from which the data is sourced, report data for a minimum 12 of the 14 indicators and that all results should be interpreted within a that comprise the index. We also aim to include range of global, regional and national contextual the latest data available, reported within the last 10 factors. The Economy Pro昀椀les at the end of the years. report provide a large range of additional data. The report this year covers 146 countries. In this edition, Croatia rejoins the index, whereas Guyana drops out. Among the 146 countries included this year are a set of 102 countries that have been covered in all editions since the inaugural one in 2006. Scores based on this constant set of countries are used to compare regional and global aggregates across time. Global Gender Gap Report 2023 9