Latvia
Gender Gap
World Economic Forum
Global Gender Gap Report
The Global Gender Gap Report benchmarks countries on their progress towards gender parity across four thematic dimensions: Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment.
2021
Rank: 20 (out of 156 countries)
Score: 0.778
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2020
Rank: 11 (out of 153 countries)
Score: 0.785
2017
Rank: 20 (out of 144 countries)
Score: 0,756
2016
Rank: 18 (out of 144 countries)
Score: 0.755
UN Women Latvia
Women Count Data Hub: Latvia
Globally, some progress on women’s rights has been achieved. In Latvia, 83.3% of legal frameworks that promote, enforce and monitor gender equality under the SDG indicator, with a focus on violence against women, are in place. The adolescent birth rate is 12.1 per 1,000 women aged 15–19 as of 2018, down from 16.1 per 1,000 in 2017. As of February 2021, 29% of seats in parliament were held by women.
Country Fact Sheet
> data.unwomen.org/country/latvia