Global Gender Gap Report 2025
World Economic Forum · Published 12 June 2025
Latest edition: 12 June 2025 · Next expected: June 2027
This ranking is questionable. One input is an executive opinion survey whose respondents cannot be audited, and the processing code and report funding are undisclosed.
What the report claims
The Global Gender Gap Report measures how close countries come to parity between women and men across four areas: economic participation, education, health, and political empowerment. India ranks 131st of 148 with a score of 0.644, down from 129th in 2024 as other countries improved faster. Its weakest area is economic participation, where India ranks 144th, while political empowerment is its strongest at 69th. Most of the index is built from hard statistics published by the ILO, UNESCO, the WHO, and the World Bank, and the formulas are public. The parity cap also shapes the result, since ratios truncate at 1.0.
The Credibility Score, dimension by dimension
- Methodology transparency / replicability
- 10 / 20
- Source verifiability + measurement integrity
- 11 / 25
- Internal consistency of India’s place
- 9 / 20
- Construct validity / India coverage
- 5 / 10
- Independence and funding
- 4 / 20
- Accountability (corrections, versioning)
- 1 / 5
Funding and independence: The World Economic Forum is a Swiss foundation funded mainly by annual membership dues and partnership contributions from major multinational corporations, with other project ties to governments and foundations. It runs an explicit gender-parity mission with parity campaigns and accelerator programmes, and the 2025 report names no funders or amounts for this edition. The report is written by Forum staff under the Foundation Board, with no external peer review and no public corrections ledger.
Sources: World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Report 2025
Updated 9 November 2026