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Global Gender Gap Narrows to 68.8% but Parity Remains 123 Years Away

Strong gains in political empowerment alongside improvements in economic participation accompany India’s drop to 131st among 148 economies surveyed.

Global Gender Gap Report 2025 | Image: Representative
A teacher conducts an outdoor class at a government boys’ middle school in Nowshera, India. Girls in school uniforms sit at desks in the foreground, attentively following the lesson written on a blackboard, while younger students sit cross-legged on mats in the background. The yellow school building and trees surround the open-air learning space on a sunny day.
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Overview

  • The World Economic Forum reports a 0.4-point rise to 68.8% parity in 2025, the fastest annual gain since the Covid-19 pandemic.
  • At the current pace, full global gender parity is projected to take another 123 years to achieve.
  • Political empowerment has narrowed by nine percentage points since 2006 yet remains the least closed dimension at just 22.9%.
  • Iceland leads for the 16th consecutive year with 92.6% of its gender gap closed, the only economy to exceed 90% parity.
  • India’s overall score rose by 0.3 points to 64.4%, but it slipped two places to rank 131st in the survey of 148 economies.