Ranked: Best Countries for Women in 2023 🙋‍♀️

What We’re Showing

This graphic ranks the top 10 countries for women across inclusion, justice, and security metrics, using data from the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security.

Methodology

An index score out of 1.0 is derived based on ratings across the following components:

• Inclusion: education, employment, financial inclusion, cell phone use, parliamentary representation
• Justice: absence of legal discrimination, access to justice, maternal mortality ratio, son bias
• Safety: intimate partner violence, community safety, political violence targeting women, and proximity to conflict

Key Takeaways

• Nine of the top 10 countries are in Europe; New Zealand (#10) is the only regional outlier
• The average score of the top 10 countries is 0.92 versus the global average of 0.65
• Denmark, the highest-ranked country, scored particularly well across inclusion (such as financial inclusion and parliamentary representation) and justice (such as absence of legal discrimination and access to justice) metrics
• Canada (#17), the UK (#26), and the U.S. (#37) did not make the top 10 list