India climbs eight places to 127 in global gender index

India climbs eight places to 127 in global gender index

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Category : International Published on: June 23 2023

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India has ranked at 127 out of 146 countries in terms of gender parity, an improvement of eight places from last year according to the World Economic Forum's annual Gender Gap Report, 2023.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) ranked India at 135 out of 146 countries in the Global Gender Gap Index in the report's 2022 edition.
India has improved by 1.4 percentage points and eight positions since the last edition, marking a partial recovery towards its 2020 parity level.
The index ranked India's neighbours Pakistan at 142, Bangladesh at 59, China at 107, Nepal at 116, Sri Lanka at 115 and Bhutan at 103.
Iceland is the most gender-equal country in the world for the 14th consecutive year and the only one to have closed more than 90 per cent of its gender gap.
Out of the 117 countries with available data since 2017, 18 countries including Bolivia (50.4 per cent), India (44.4 per cent) and France (42.3 per cent) have achieved women's representation of over 40 per cent in local governance.

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