Pakistan's Gender Parity Score Improves Significantly in 2026
Pakistan has shown significant progress in gender parity, recording its strongest year-on-year improvement in a decade. The country's overall gender parity score increased by 2.8 percentage points, rising from 56.7% in 2025 to 59.5% in 2026. Despite this improvement, Pakistan remains near the bottom of the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Index, ranked 143rd out of 145 economies in 2026.2 sourcesSee all sources