Sustainable Goals Gender Index 06/06/2019 – Posted in: Daily News – Tags:

SUSTAINABLE GOALS GENDER INDEX

 

For: Preliminary & Mains

Topic covers: Index report, Global Vs. India, SDG Index

 

News Flash

India ranked 95th out of 129 countries in a new index that measures global gender equality looking at aspects such as poverty, health, education, literacy, political representation and equality at the workplace.

Denmark was ranked at the first place and Chad at 129th place. China ranked at 74 position, Pakistan at 113 while Nepal and Bangladesh at 102 and 110 respectively.

India scored 56.2 points. The overall index score and individual goal scores are based on a scale of 0–100.

 

Global Findings

  • The world is far from achieving gender equality with 1.4 billion girls and women living in countries that get a “very poor” grade. The global average score of the 129 countries — which represent 95% of the world’s girls and women — is 65.7 out of 100 (“poor” in the index).
  • Altogether, 2.8 billion girls and women live in countries that get either a “very poor” (59 and below) or “poor” score (60-69) on gender equality.
  • Just 8% of the world’s population of girls and women live in countries that received a “good” gender equality score (80-89) and no country achieved an “excellent” overall score of 90 or above.
  • The world is furthest behind on gender equality issues related to public finance and better gender data (SDG 17), climate change (SDG 13), gender equality in industry and innovation (SDG 9) and – worryingly – the standalone ‘gender equality’ goal (SDG 5).
  • Kenya has very high rates of women who use digital banking – higher rates than three quarters of the world’s countries.

 

India’s performance

  • India’s highest goal scores are on SDG 3 of health (79.9), SDG 2 of hunger and nutrition (76.2) and SDG 7 of energy (71.8).
  • India’s lowest goal scores are on SDG 17 of partnership (18.3, in the bottom 10 countries worldwide on the goal), SDG 9 of industry, infrastructure and innovation (38.1) and SDG 13 of climate (43.4).
  • Some of the factors based on which the ranking of India has been decided include:

(i) proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments (score of 23.6, 16th in region, women made up 11.8 per cent of parliament in 2018)

(ii) extent to which a national budget is broken down by factors such as gender, age, income, or region (score of 0.0, tied for worst in region)

(iii) percentage of seats held by women on a country’s Supreme Court or highest court (score of 18.2, 4th worst in region)

  • India ranks toward the bottom of the Asia and the Pacific region, ranking 17th out of the 23 Asia and the Pacific countries covered by the index.

 

SDG Gender Index

The Sustainable Development Goals Gender Index has been developed by UK-based Equal Measures 2030, a joint effort of regional and global organisations including African Women’s Development and Communication Network, Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and International Women’s Health Coalition.

The new index includes 51 indicators across 14 of the 17 official Sustainable Development Goals and covers 129 countries across all regions of the world.

 

Scoring System

  • Excellent: 90 and above
  • Good: 80-89
  • Fair: 70-79
  • Poor: 60-69
  • Very poor: 59 and below

 

Source: Money Control

 

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