India has fallen two spots to rank on the World Economic Forum’s 2025 Global Gender Gap index.

In 2024, India had out of 146 countries on the index, while it was at . In 2020, India had ranked 112 among 153 countries.

The countries are ranked based on scores across four main subindices – economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment.

In its report released on Wednesday, the World Economic Forum stated that India had an overall parity score of 64.1%, making it one of the lowest-ranked countries in South Asia. The country saw a relative drop in rankings compared to the previous year due to the performance of other economies, it added.

However, India’s overall performance improved in absolute terms by +0.3 points, the report said.

“One of the dimensions where India increases parity is in economic participation and opportunity, where its score improves by +.9 percentage points to 40.7%,” the World Economic Forum added.

The report said that while most indicator values remained the same, parity in estimated earned income rose from 28.6% to 29.9%, which positively impacted the subindex score.

Scores in the labour-force participation rate remained the same at 45.9%, duplicating India’s highest level achieved to date, the report...