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- India ranked 131 out of 146 in Global Gender Gap Index 2025, drops two places
- With a parity score of just 64.1%, India is among the lowest-ranked countries in South Asia, according to WEF’s latest report.
🟣 India’s Performance
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Rank: 131 out of 146 countries (↓ 2 ranks from 2024).
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Overall Parity Score: 64.1%
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South Asia Position: Among the lowest-ranked; only Maldives (138) and Pakistan (148) rank lower.
India has ranked 131 out of 146 countries in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2025, slipping two places from its position last year.
With a parity score of just 64.1%, India is among the lowest-ranked countries in South Asia, according to the report released on Thursday.
The Global Gender Gap Index measures gender parity across four key dimensions:
- Economic Participation and Opportunity
- Educational Attainment
- Health and Survival
- Political Empowerment.
🔹 Dimension-wise Highlights:
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Economic Participation & Opportunity:
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Score: 40.7% (↑ 0.9 percentage points)
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Labour force participation: Steady at 45.9% (India’s highest to date)
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Estimated earned income parity: ↑ from 28.6% to 29.9%
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Educational Attainment:
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Score: 97.1% (↑ due to literacy and tertiary enrolment gains)
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Health & Survival:
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Improvement in sex ratio at birth and healthy life expectancy parity
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Parity achieved despite falling life expectancy in both genders
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Political Empowerment:
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Decline in female MPs: 14.7% → 13.8%
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Women in ministerial roles: ↓ from 6.5% to 5.6%
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Indicator score falls below 2023 levels (was 30% in 2019)
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🌍 Global Highlights
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Global parity closed: 68.8% (best post-COVID progress)
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Full parity still 123 years away at current rate.
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Top 5 Countries:
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Iceland (16th consecutive year at No. 1)
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Finland
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Norway
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United Kingdom
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New Zealand
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India shows improvement in education, health, and earned income parity, but setbacks in political representation hold back its overall gender parity. Globally, progress is accelerating, but structural barriers to equality still persist.