Ranked: Worst Countries for Women in 2023

What We’re Showing

This graphic ranks the bottom 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

• All of the bottom 10 countries for women’s safety and inclusion are located in either in the Middle East or Africa
• The average score of this group, at 0.38, is nearly half the global average of 0.65
• High maternal mortality rates, low education rates, elevated rates of intimate partner violence, and close proximity to conflict were some key contributors to the low overall scores