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Global Gender Gap Index
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- World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2022 was released recently.
- It ranks India 135 out of 146 countries.
- India ranks poorly among its neighbours and is behind Bangladesh (71), Nepal (96), Sri Lanka (110), Maldives (117) and Bhutan (126).
- Only the performance of Iran (143), Pakistan (145) and Afghanistan (146) was worse than India in South Asia.
- This report says that it will now take 132 years to reach gender parity.
- In 2021, India was ranked 140 out of 156 countries.
- India is the worst performer in the world in the “health and survival” sub-index in which it is ranked 146.
- Iceland is ranked 1 and Bangladesh is ranked 9 in Political Empowerment.
- India ranks 107th out of 146 in Educational Attainment.
- And its score has marginally worsened since last year.
- In 2021, India was ranked 114 out of 156.
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