India ranks 135 among a total of 146 countries in the Global Gender Gap Index, 2022, released by the World Economic Forum.

The report is annually published by the World Economic Forum (WEF).
It benchmarks gender parity across four key dimensions or sub-indices — economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment.
It measures scores on a 0-to-100 scale, which can be interpreted as the distance covered towards parity or the percentage of the gender gap that has been closed.
The report aims to serve “as a compass to track progress on relative gaps between women and men on health, education, economy and politics”.
According to the WEF it is the longest-standing index, which tracks progress towards closing these gaps over time since its inception in 2006.

Here’s how it stands on different sub-indices:

This includes metrics such as the percentage of women in Parliament, the percentage of women in ministerial positions etc.
Of all the sub-indices, this is where India ranks the highest (48th out of 146).
However, notwithstanding its rank, its score is quite low at 0.267.
Some of the best-ranking countries in this category score much better.
For instance, Iceland is ranked 1 with a score of 0.874 and Bangladesh is ranked 9 with a score of 0.546.
Moreover, India’s score on this metric has worsened since last year – from 0.276 to 0.267.
The silver lining is that despite the reduction, India’s score is above the global average in this category.

This includes metrics such as the percentage of women who are part of the labour force, wage equality for similar work, earned income etc.
Here, too, India ranks a lowly 143 out of the 146 countries in contention even though its score has improved over 2021 from 0.326 to 0.350.
Last year, India was pegged at 151 out of the 156 countries ranked.
India’s score is much lower than the global average, and only Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan are behind India on this metric.

This sub-index includes metrics such as literacy rate and the enrolment rates in primary, secondary and tertiary education.
Here India ranks 107th out of 146, and its score has marginally worsened since last year.
In 2021, India was ranked 114 out of 156.

This includes two metrics: the sex ratio at birth (in %) and healthy life expectancy (in years).
In this metric, India is ranked last (146) among all the countries.
Its score hasn’t changed from 2021 when it was ranked 155th out of 156 countries.
The country is the worst performer in the world in the “health and survival” sub-index in which it is ranked 146.

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.
In 2021, India ranked 140 out of 156 nations.

India ranks 135 out of 146 in Gender Gap Index

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