• India has slipped 28 places to rank 140 among 156 countries in the Global Gender Gap Report 2021, by World Economic Forum. In 2020, India ranked 112th among 153 countries.
• India emerged as the third-worst performing country in South Asia.
• Iceland has topped the index as the most gender-equal country in the world for 12th time.
• Afghanistan is the worst-performing country in the report.

Top gender-equal country

• Iceland, Finland, Norway, New Zealand, Rwanda, Sweden, Ireland and Switzerland.

Global Gender Gap Report

• The Global Gender Gap Report 2021 is 15th edition of the annual publication by WEF.
• The Global Gender Gap Index was first introduced by the World Economic Forum in 2006 to compare countries’ gender gaps across four dimensions: economic opportunities, education, health and political leadership.