User Guide

The Economy Profiles section of the report presents a two-page profile for each of the 146 economies covered by this year’s edition. The first page corresponds to the index results, and the second offers a complementary set of contextual indicators and metrics for that economy.

The Global Gender Gap Report 2024 is complemented by an online dashboard, which provides detailed Economy Profiles of all economies featured in the index, as well as a data tool enabling the reader to explore index results and rankings in depth, and to compare results by economy, region, indicator and subindex. The Global Gender Gap dashboard can be found at https://www.weforum.org/publications/gender-gap-report-2024/.

To monitor the state of gender parity across the widest possible range of economies, the index performance for an economy is computed when recent data is available for at least 12 of the 14 indicators composing the index. Obsolescence varies by indicator; while most data points date from the past two years or less, for very few cases, up to 10-year-old data points are used for the calculation. Given the update to the labour-force participation rate data series introduced in 2023, an allowance is made to include data up to 2010 in individual cases for this indicator.

Each Economy Profile is divided into three sections:

The first section presents each economy’s overall Global Gender Gap Index rank out of the 146 reviewed countries and its progress, represented on a 0-to-1 scale, towards closing the gender gap and achieving full gender parity (benchmark score of 1). The radar chart on the top left-hand side of each Economy Profile gives an overview of the country’s scores for each of the four subindexes relative to the ideal outcome of full gender parity (score of 1) and the global average score of all economies in the index weighted by population across all economies.

The second section of each Economy Profile provides an overview of each economy’s ranks and scores on the four subindexes of the Global Gender Gap Index, as well as on the individual indicators that compose each subindex. For each of the indicators, column one displays the country’s rank; column two displays the country’s score; column three locates the country’s score against the population-weighted global average for that indicator (out of 146 economies); column four displays the gap between the female and male value; column five charts the female and male value on a scale, respectively; and, finally, column six displays the minimum and maximum value for the indicator. Although full-precision values have been used for calculating ratios and scores, rounded values to one decimal are displayed to facilitate reading. The “n/a” symbol indicates where data is unavailable, and the symbol “-“ indicates where the statistic cannot be computed. Economy scores are highlighted by a colour scale – increasing by 20% intervals from light blue (0.0–0.2; worst) to dark blue (0.8–1.0; best) – to help the reader visually interpret the Index results. The female-male values and their gaps are colour-coded – purple for men and green for women. The gap between them is coloured based on which gender has the higher value. To calculate the index, all ratios are truncated at the parity benchmark of 1 and thus the highest score possible is 1 – except for the sex ratio at birth (0.944) and the healthy life expectancy (1.06) indicators.

The third section of the Economy Profile includes complementary and contextual indicators, which are not incorporated into the calculation of the index but provide relevant information about gender parity in other areas. These indicators are displayed separately because and organized into seven thematic groups: a) General indicators; b) Work participation and leadership; c) Access to finance; d) Civil and political freedom; e) Family and care; f) Education and skills; g) Health. The full definitions of all indicators are provided in Appendix B.

A new interactive dashboard accompanies the release of the 18th edition of the Global Gender Gap Index (available at http://reports.weforum.org/global-gender-gap-report-2024). Additional features allow users to explore gender parity scores over time, compare selected indicators and track highlighted economies’ performance.

Users can select Gender Gap Index editions by year and can access different chart views of the data by clicking on the corresponding icon option at the top-left corner of the page . They can also choose between a world-map view, which allows the reader to explore geographical trends and patterns; a bar-chart view, which depicts an economy’s performance for the selected indicator relative to other economies; a scatterplot chart, which visualizes the relationship between two variables; and a line chart, which visualizes the evolution of gender gap scores by indicator over time. Across views, economies are highlighted by an extended colour scale to enhance contrast and readability – ranging in 20% intervals from light blue (0.0-0.2, worst) to dark blue (0.8-1.0, best).

Users can further compare and filter results by economy or by regional grouping by selecting the corresponding option on the drop-down menus situated on the lower-left corner of the dashboard .

User also have the possibility to directly compare two countries side-by-side and across the time series. The Economy Comparison Tool can be accessed by clicking an economy within the charts, and then selecting a second economy from the “compare with” drop-down menu on the bottom left corner of the explorer. This feature enables a side-by-side view of indicators for the selected comparison economy relative to the original economy selected in the Economy Profile view of the Data Explorer. Users may also select the time period for comparison . Users may return to the original view by clicking on the Back-to-Economy menu option at the top-left corner of the page or may continue exploring the data by clicking through to the other views of the Data Explorer.