TABLE 1.3 The Global Gender Gap Index rankings by region, 2023 Latin America and the Carribean Southern Asia Country Rank Score Country Rank Score Regional Global Regional Global Nicaragua 1 7 0.811 Bangladesh 1 59 0.722 Costa Rica 2 14 0.793 Bhutan 2 103 0.682 Jamaica 3 24 0.779 Sri Lanka 3 115 0.663 Chile 4 27 0.777 Nepal 4 116 0.659 Barbados 5 31 0.769 Maldives 5 124 0.649 Mexico 6 33 0.765 India 6 127 0.643 Peru 7 34 0.764 Pakistan 7 142 0.575 Argentina 8 36 0.762 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 8 143 0.575 Colombia 9 42 0.751 Afghanistan 9 146 0.405 Ecuador 10 50 0.737 Suriname 11 52 0.736 Honduras 12 53 0.735 Sub-Saharan Africa Bolivia 13 56 0.730 Brazil 14 57 0.726 Country Rank Score Panama 15 58 0.724 Uruguay 16 67 0.714 Regional Global El Salvador 17 68 0.714 Namibia 1 8 0.802 Dominican Republic 18 81 0.704 Rwanda 2 12 0.794 Belize 19 89 0.696 South Africa 3 20 0.787 Paraguay 20 91 0.695 Mozambique 4 25 0.778 Guatemala 21 117 0.659 Burundi 5 35 0.763 Cabo Verde 6 37 0.761 Liberia 7 39 0.760 Middle East and North Africa Zimbabwe 8 45 0.746 Eswatini 9 46 0.745 Tanzania, United Rep. of 10 48 0.740 Country Rank Score Madagascar 11 51 0.737 Regional Global Botswana 12 64 0.719 Ethiopia 13 75 0.711 United Arab Emirates 1 71 0.712 Kenya 14 77 0.708 Israel 2 83 0.701 Uganda 15 78 0.706 Bahrain 3 113 0.666 Lesotho 16 82 0.702 Kuwait 4 120 0.651 Zambia 17 85 0.699 Jordan 5 126 0.646 Togo 18 90 0.696 Tunisia 6 128 0.642 Cameroon 19 94 0.693 Saudi Arabia 7 131 0.637 Mauritius 20 98 0.689 Lebanon 8 132 0.628 Ghana 21 100 0.688 Qatar 9 133 0.627 Senegal 22 104 0.680 Egypt 10 134 0.626 Burkina Faso 23 109 0.676 Morocco 11 136 0.621 Malawi 24 110 0.676 Oman 12 139 0.614 Sierra Leone 25 112 0.667 Algeria 13 144 0.573 Comoros 26 114 0.664 Angola 27 118 0.656 Gambia 28 119 0.651 North America Côte d'Ivoire 29 122 0.650 Nigeria 30 130 0.637 Country Rank Score Niger 31 135 0.622 Guinea 32 137 0.617 Regional Global Benin 33 138 0.616 Canada 1 30 0.770 Congo, Dem. Rep. of the 34 140 0.612 United States of America 2 43 0.748 Mali 35 141 0.605 Chad 36 145 0.570 Source World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Index, 2023. to Political Empowerment. On average across the the Congo, have improved on this subindex by region, 22.6% parity has been achieved. Based 0.5 percentage points or more. Further, Ethiopia, on the constant sample of countries covered Togo, Tanzania, Namibia and Uganda currently have on the index since 2006, this is an improvement heads of states who are women. of 1.1 percentage points compared to the last edition. Nineteen countries, including the populous Nigeria, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Global Gender Gap Report 2023 26