Question: What is the rank of India in Global Gender Gap Index 2020 published by World Economic Forum?
(a) 112
(b) 102
(c) 108
(d) 124
Answer: (a)
Related facts:
- The Global Gender Gap Index is a framework for capturing the magnitude of gender-based disparities and tracking their progress over time.
- It was first introduced by the World Economic Forum in 2006.
- India has been ranked 112th among 153 countries in the annual Global Gender Gap Index for 2020.In 2018 India’s rank was 108.
Parameters of the Index:
- The Global Gender Gap Index benchmarks 153 countries on their progress towards gender parity in four dimensions:
- Economic Participation and Opportunity,
- Educational Attainment,
- Health and Survival and
- Political Empowerment
- Over the Index, the highest possible score is 1 (equality) and the lowest possible score is 0 (inequality).
Key findings:
- Globally, the average (population-weighted) distance completed to parity is at 68.6%, which is a further improvement since last edition.
- At current pace, it will take 99.5 years to achieve full parity between men and women.
- The largest gender disparity is in political empowerment. Only 25% of the 35,127 seats in parliaments around the world are occupied by women, and only 21% of the 3,343 ministers are women.
- Iceland is once again the most gender-equal country in the world for the 11th time in a row. It has closed almost 88% of its overall gender gap, further improving since last year.
- Iceland is followed by Nordic neighbors Norway (2nd, 84.2%), Finland (3rd, 83.2%) and Sweden (4th, 82.0%).
- Yemen is ranked the worst (153rd), while Iraq is 152nd and Pakistan 151st.
- India is far behind other countries like China (106th), Sri Lanka (102nd), Nepal (101st), Brazil (92nd), Indonesia (85th) and Bangladesh (50th).
Links:
http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GGGR_2020.pdf
https://www.livemint.com/news/india/india-slips-four-ranks-on-world-economic-forum-s-global-gender-gap-index-2020-11576574974188.html