The World Bank Group has just launched a new gender data portal that brings together sex-disaggregated and gender-relevant data on topics ranging from education, demographics, and health to jobs, asset ownership, and political participation.
We have also just released the Little Data Book on Gender 2016 along with online tables that are linked to the latest data available in the World Development Indicators.
Gender data are one of the most visited parts of our data site, and these new resources make it easier than ever to see our data’s gender dimensions.
The country and topic dashboards give an overview of the distribution and trends in data across important themes, and the online tables and book are a useful reference for the most commonly accessed data.
Below I have picked a few charts from the new portal related to the four pillars of the Bank Group’s new gender equality strategy.
These aims focus on improving human endowments, through
– better access to health, education, and social protection;
– opening up more and better jobs by tackling issues such as skills gaps and care arrangements;
– expanding women’s access to and control over assets; and
– enhancing women’s voice and agency, meaning their ability to make themselves heard and exert control over key aspects of their own lives.
1) The education gap is largest in low-income countries
As of 2013, the worldwide primary school completion stands at an all-time high of 92.3 per cent, a 13 per cent increase since 1990.
While this is great progress overall, completion rates remain substantially lower in low-income countries, and boys continue to complete primary school at a rate 10 percent higher than girls.
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Tariq Khokhar er datalog og Bankens Global Data Editor.
