Table 4.

The WEF global gender gap index, 2006–2017

Country average by Human Development Index (HDI) Group	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2016	2017	Point gap 2006–2017	Percent change 2006–2017
World average	0.6626	0.6677	0.6751	0.6784	0.6786	0.6799	0.6844	0.6864	0.6947	0.6978	0.0352	5.3110
Very High HDI countries	0.6903	0.6972	0.7016	0.7050	0.7121	0.7136	0.7154	0.7179	0.7223	0.7256	0.0353	5.1084
High HDI countries	0.6637	0.6670	0.6763	0.6774	0.6734	0.6728	0.6756	0.6790	0.6856	0.6944	0.0307	4.6226
Medium HDI countries	0.6543	0.6571	0.6621	0.6725	0.6709	0.6713	0.6758	0.6782	0.6936	0.6947	0.0404	6.1774
Low HDI countries	0.6005	0.6102	0.6228	0.6246	0.6226	0.6314	0.6458	0.6463	0.6645	0.6643	0.0638	10.6215
Point gap between Low and Very High HDI countries	−0.0898	−0.0871	−0.0789	−0.0804	−0.0895	−0.0822	−0.0696	−0.0716	−0.0578	−0.0613
Ratio of Low HDI to Very High HDI countries	0.8699	0.8751	0.8876	0.8860	0.8743	0.8848	0.9027	0.9003	0.9200	0.9155
No. of countries with data points	110	122	124	128	130	131	133	136	144	144

In calculating the overall GGGI average we used all 144 countries in the GGGI dataset. However, because North Korea is missing an HDI score and group, we used 143 countries in calculating the HDI country groupings.

Source: Authors’ calculations based on WEF data for the Global Gender Gap. Data for 2016 and 2017 are from WEF (2017). Data for 2006–2013 are from the Humanitarian Data Exchange at https://data.humdata.org/dataset/global-gender-gap-index-world-economic-forum.