This table is derived from the Global Gender Gap Report 2008, published by the World Economic Forum, and it is the result of collaboration of the WEF with faculty at Harvard University and University of California, Berkeley. For explanations, please refer to the notes below the table.



        Level of Gender Equality Achieved, by Country
          Ranked by Highest to Lowest Score in 2008

Rank		Country    		Score
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  1		Norway				0.8239
  2		Finland				0.8195
  3		Sweden				0.8139
  4		Iceland				0.7999
  5		New Zealand			0.7859
  6		Philippines			0.7568
  7		Denmark				0.7538
  8		Ireland				0.7518
  9		Netherlands			0.7399
10		Latvia				0.7397
11		Germany				0.7394
12		Sri Lanka				0.7371
13		United Kingdom		0.7366
14		Switzerland			0.7360
15		France				0.7341
16		Lesotho				0.7320
17		Spain				0.7281
18		Mozambique			0.7266
19		Trinidad and Tobago	0.7245
20		Moldova				0.7244
21		Australia				0.7241
22		South Africa			0.7232
23		Lithuania				0.7222
24		Argentina				0.7209
25		Cuba				0.7195
26		Barbados				0.7188
27		United States			0.7179
28		Belgium				0.7163
29		Austria				0.7153
30		Namibia				0.7141
31		Canada				0.7136
32		Costa Rica			0.7111
33		Belarus				0.7099
34		Panama				0.7095
35		Ecuador				0.7091
36		Bulgaria				0.7077
37		Estonia				0.7076
38		Tanzania				0.7068
39		Portugal				0.7051
40		Mongolia				0.7049
41		Kyrgyz Republic		0.7045
42		Russian Federation		0.6994
43		Uganda				0.6981
44		Jamaica				0.6980
45		Kazakhstan			0.6976
46		Croatia				0.6967
47		Honduras			0.6960
48		Peru				0.6959
49		Poland				0.6951
50		Colombia				0.6944
51		Slovenia				0.6937
52		Thailand				0.6917
53		F.Y.R.O.Macedonia		0.6914
54		Uruguay				0.6907
55		Uzbekistan			0.6906
56		Israel				0.6900
57		China				0.6878
58		El Salvador			0.6875
59		Venezuela			0.6875
60		Hungary				0.6867
61		Azerbaijan			0.6856
62		Ukraine				0.6856
63		Botswana			0.6839
64		Slovak Republic		0.6824
65		Chile				0.6818
66		Luxembourg			0.6802
67		Italy					0.6788
68		Vietnam				0.6778
69		Czech Republic		0.6770
70		Romania				0.6763
71		Nicaragua			0.6747
72		Dominican Republic	0.6744
73		Brazil				0.6737
74		Madagascar			0.6736
75		Greece				0.6727
76		Cyprus				0.6694
77		Ghana				0.6679
78		Armenia				0.6677
79		Suriname				0.6674
80		Bolivia				0.6667
81		Malawi				0.6664
82		Georgia				0.6654
83		Malta				0.6634
84		Singapore			0.6625
85		Gambia, The			0.6622
86		Belize				0.6610
87		Albania				0.6591
88		Kenya				0.6547
89		Tajikistan				0.6541
90		Bangladesh			0.6531
91		Maldives				0.6501
92		Zimbabwe			0.6485
93		Indonesia			0.6473
94		Cambodia			0.6469
95		Mauritius				0.6466
96		Malaysia				0.6442
97		Mexico				0.6441
98		Japan				0.6434
99		Brueni Darussalem		0.6392
100		Paraguay				0.6379
101		Kuwait				0.6358
102		Nigeria				0.6339
103		Tunisia				0.6295
104		Jordan				0.6275
105		United Arab Emirates	0.6220
106		Zambia				0.6205
107		Syria				0.6181
108		Korea, Rep.			0.6154
109		Mali					0.6117
110		Mauritania			0.6117
111		Algeria				0.6111
112		Guatemala			0.6072
113		India				0.6060
114		Angola				0.6032
115		Burkina Faso			0.6029
116		Iran					0.6021
117		Cameroon			0.6017
118		Oman				0.5960
119		Qatar				0.5948
120		Nepal				0.5942
121		Bahrain				0.5927
122		Ethiopia				0.5867
123		Turkey				0.5853
124		Egypt				0.5832
125		Morocco				0.5757
126		Benin				0.5582
127		Pakistan				0.5549
128		Saudi Arabia			0.5537
129		Chad				0.5290
130		Yemen				0.4664

The scores in the above table were calculated using the following variables.

Economic Participation and Opportunity

Ratio: Female labour force participation over male value (Source: International Labour Organisation, Key Indicators of the Labour Market, 2006)

Wage equality between women and men for similar work (converted to female-over-male ratio) (Source: World Economic Forum, Executive Opinion Survey 2008)

Ratio: Estimated female earned income over male value (Source: United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report 2007/2008, 2005 or latest data available)

Ratio: Female legislators, senior officials and managers over male value (Source: International Labour Organisation, LABORSTA Internet, online database, 2007 or latest data available; United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report 2007/2008)

Ratio: Female professional and technical workers over male value (Source: International Labour Organisation, LABORSTA Internet, online database, 2007 or latest data available; United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report 2007/2008)

Educational Attainment

Ratio: Female literacy rate over male value (Source: United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report 2007/2008, 2005 or latest data available; UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Education Indicators, 2007 or latest data available; World Bank's World Development Indicators, Online Database, 2005 or latest data available)

Ratio: Female net primary level enrolment over male value (Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Education Indicators, 2007 or latest data available; World Bank's World Development Indicators, Online Database, 2007 or latest data available)

Ratio: Female net secondary level enrolment over male value (Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Education Indicators, 2007 or latest data available; World Bank's World Development Indicators, Online Database, 2007 or latest data available)

Ratio: Female gross tertiary level enrolment over male value (Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Education Indicators, 2007 or latest data available; World Bank's World Development Indicators, Online Database, 2007 or latest data available)

Political Empowerment

Ratio: Women with seats in parliament over male value (Source: Inter-Parliamentary Union - National Women in Parliaments, 2008)

Ratio: Women at ministerial level over male value (Source: Inter-Parliamentary Union - E-Parliament Report, 2008)

Ratio: Number of years of a female head of state or government (last 50 years) over male value (Source: Own calculations, as of June 2008)

Health and Survival

Ratio: Female healthy life expectancy over male value (Source: World Health Organization, Online Database (WHOSIS), data from 2003

Sex ratio at birth (converted to female-over-male ratio) (Source: Central Intelligence Agency, The CIA World Factbook, 2008 Edition)

NOTE: The table on this page is re-published from data provided by the World Economic Forum. No claims are made regarding the gender gap/gender equality data contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about the global gender gap index should be addressed to the WEF.