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India ranked 135 among 146 countries in the recently released Global Gender Gap Index 2022.
- In 2021, India ranked 140 out of 156 nations.
Iceland ranked at the top and it is the only country to have closed more than 90% of its Gender gap.
Global Gender Gap Index was released by the World Economic Forum (WEF).

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In the sub-index of “health and survival”, India has ranked (146th) as the worst performer in the world.
According to the report, India will take more than 132 years to reach gender equality.
India has ranked poorly among its neighbours and it is behind:
- Bangladesh (71)
- Nepal (96)
- Sri Lanka (110)
- Maldives (117)
- Bhutan (126).
In South Asia, only the performance of Iran (143), Pakistan (145) and Afghanistan (146) was worse than India.
India’s scored 0.629 (out of 1), and this was the 7th-highest score in the past 16 years.
The report mentioned that the labour force participation shrunk for both men (by 9.5%) and women (3%).

Global Gender Gap Index

It is released by the World Economic Forum (WEF).
The Global Gender Gap Index measure gender equality across 4 key dimensions:
- Economic Participation and Opportunity.
- Educational Attainment.
- Health and Survival.
- Political Empowerment.
It measures scores on a 0-to-100 scale, and the score can be interpreted as the distance covered towards achieving gender equality.

Important Reports released by World Economic Forum