Global Gender Gap Index

Quick info
Data type	Numeric
Scale	Metric
Value labels	value ranges between 1 (parity) and 0 (imparity)
Technical name	socstr_si_im_gggi
Category	Social structure
Label	Global Gender Gap Index
Related indicators	Gender Wage Gap

The Global Gender Gap Index examines the gap between men and women across four fundamental categories (subindexes): Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment. It focuses on measuring gaps, it captures gaps in outcome variables and it ranks countries according to gender equality.

Coding rules

coding rules

Bibliographic info

Citation: citation

Related publications: World Economic Forum (2021): Global Gender Gap Report 2021. The Report and Methodology and Technical Notes are available at https://reports.weforum.org/global-gender-gap-report-2020/appendix-b-the-global-gender-gap-index-methodology-and-technical-notes/

Misc

Project manager(s): Andrea Schäfer

Data release: Version 0.001

Revisions: revisions

Sources

World Economic Forum