--- title: "Which country topped the WEF's Global Gender Gap Index 2017?" description: "Which country topped the WEF's Global Gender Gap Index 2017?" author: "UTKARSHA SINGHROUL" published: 2019-04-04 canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/51956/which-country-topped-the-wef-s-global-gender-gap-index-2017 category: "general knowledge" tags: ["general knowledge", "gender gap index"] reading_time: 2 minutes --- # Which country topped the WEF's Global Gender Gap Index 2017? Which [country topped](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/38504/which-country-topped-the-2016-world-press-freedom-index) the [WEF](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/40054/what-are-all-indexes-of-india-s-in-the-wef-davos)'s [Global](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/13127/macro-and-microeconomics-concepts-in-relation-to-global-organization-management) [Gender Gap](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/80941/filling-the-gender-gap-during-corona-breakdown) [Index](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/13152/why-google-s-mobile-first-index-makes-total-sense-in-2018) 2017? ## Answers ### Answer by Harshal Vispute **The Global Gender [Gap](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/13107/scaling-the-gap-between-a-graduate-and-a-professional) 2017 report** from the **World Economic Forum ranks 144 countries** on their progress toward **gender parity** across **four thematic dimensions—economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment—**and provides [country](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/3960/muslim-population-by-country-2024) rankings that allow for effective comparisons across **regions and income groups.** **The rankings are intended to raise global awareness of the issues that gender disparities cause, as well as the benefits that may be realized by closing them**. The rankings**' methodology and quantitative analysis are designed to serve as a foundation for developing effective approaches to close gender inequalities**. Since its inception **in 2006,** the Index's methodology has remained consistent, offering a solid foundation for cross-country and time-series analysis. According to the research, **the East Asia and Pacific** area **ranks in the center of the Global Gender Disparity Index**, with an average persisting gender gap of just under **32 percent**. The region is home to two of the overall Index's top ten performers, **New Zealand and the Philippines, both of which have closed over 79 percent of their total gender gap**—far ahead of **the region's next best-placed country**—while the lower half of the region's economies have yet to cross **the 70% threshold.** Three of the five most improved countries on the Health and Survival subindex in the last decade are from the area. **Only three of the region's 18 countries—Mongolia, Cambodia, and Japan**—have completely bridged the gap. East Asia and the Pacific, in fact, is the lowest-ranked region internationally on this subindex, with a regional average of just under **94 percent**. Only two nations in the area have completely bridged the gender gap in educational attainment, one of which is the Philippines. ## Yemen tops the GGGI 2017 --- Original Source: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/51956/which-country-topped-the-wef-s-global-gender-gap-index-2017 Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.