Where Does India Rank As Per Global Gender Gap Index 2022?

India is one of the lowest performer in the world in the "health and survival" sub-index, where it is placed 146 and is ranked 135 out of a total of 146 nations in the Global Gender Gap Index 2022.

It would now take 132 years to achieve gender parity, according to the Global Gender Report 2022, which also includes the Gender Gap Index, with the gap narrowing by only four years since 2021 and closing by 68.1 %. However, given that the gender gap was predicted to shrink within a century based on patterns prior to 2020, this does not make up for the generational loss between 2020 and 2021. Gender parity is predicted to be achieved in South Asia in 197 years, which is the region that will take the longest.

Global Gender Index 2022

The Global Gender Gap Index under the Global Gender Index report, measures gender parity in four important areas, or sub-indices, including political empowerment, health and survival, educational attainment, and economic involvement and opportunity. It calculates scores on a scale from 0 to 100, which represent the amount of progress made toward parity or the proportion of the gender gap that has been bridged.

India is ranked 48th in political empowerment, 107th in educational attainment, 146th in health and survival, and 143rd in economic involvement and opportunity.

According to reports, India's score of 0.629 was the seventh-highest in the previous 16 years. India "recovered" ground in economic opportunity and participation since 2021, however, the report also notes that the labour force participation rate declined for both men and women (by -9.5 % points) (-3 % points).

Although both male and female values decreased, the reduction was greater for male values, increasing the gender parity score for projected earned income. According to reports, India's score on political empowerment has decreased as a result of the decreasing percentage of years that women have held the office of head of state during the past 50 years.

Additionally, India performs poorly compared to its neighbours, falling below Bangladesh (71), Nepal (96), Sri Lanka (110), the Maldives (117), and Bhutan (126). In South Asia, only three countries scored worse than India: Iran (143), Pakistan (145), and Afghanistan (146).

India placed 140th on the index out of 156 nations in 2021.

Top 10 Countries In The Global Gender Index

Although no nation attained complete gender parity, the top 10 economies all reduced gender disparities by at least 80%, with Iceland leading the world rankings (90.8%). It was the only economy where the gender gap had been reduced by more than 90%.

Other Scandinavian nations like Finland (86%, second), Norway (84.5 %, third), and Sweden (82.2 %, fifth) round out the top five, with Germany (80.1 %) and Ireland (80.4 %) occupying the ninth and tenth rankings in Europe, respectively. The top 10 also includes two Sub-Saharan African nations, Rwanda (81.1 %, sixth) and Namibia (80.7 %, eighth), as well as one nation from Latin America, Nicaragua (81%, seventh), and one from east Asia and the Pacific, New Zealand (84.1%, fourth).

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