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- India retained the 131st rank on the Global Gender Gap Index 2026 released by the World Economic Forum, unchanged from the previous edition.
- Iceland topped the index for gender parity, followed by Finland and Norway, while Chad, Iran and Pakistan ranked lowest among 145 countries.
- India closed 64.5 per cent of its gender gap, below the global average of 69.2 per cent, despite a slight improvement in score over the last year.
- India's parity rose 4.3 percentage points since 2006, driven mainly by gains in educational attainment, while economic participation remained weak at 41.2 per cent parity.
- The WEF estimates full global gender parity remains about 120 years away, underscoring how far India and other economies still have to go.
What to watch next
- Whether India's global rank moves next year given the small score improvement
- Trends in India's economic participation and labour-force parity scores
- Whether global political empowerment continues to reverse its post-2016 decline
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Saadia Zahidi
Managing Director, World Economic Forum
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“Twenty years of data show that gender parity is achievable. Economies at every income level have made progress, so the barrier is not a lack of resources”
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…and opportunity. In its 20th year, the index benchmarked 145 economies across four dimensions: economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment. " Twenty years of data show that gender parity is achievable. Economies at every income level have made progress, so the barrier is not a lack of resources ," said Saadia Zahidi, Managing Director, World Economic Forum. "Parity is a foundation for growth and competitiveness, but it is not inevitable. To accelerate, governments and employers need to learn from the policies…
“Parity is a foundation for growth and competitiveness, but it is not inevitable. To accelerate, governments and employers need to learn from the policies that work and apply them faster. A new economy demands a new approach to talent”
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…"Twenty years of data show that gender parity is achievable. Economies at every income level have made progress, so the barrier is not a lack of resources," said Saadia Zahidi, Managing Director, World Economic Forum. " Parity is a foundation for growth and competitiveness, but it is not inevitable. To accelerate, governments and employers need to learn from the policies that work and apply them faster. A new economy demands a new approach to talent ," she added. In the top ten, Namibia climbed four places to fourth, the highest-ranked country in Sub-Saharan Africa, followed by the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Sweden, Australia, Germany and Ireland. Australia…
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