Where in the World is It Unsafe to Be a Woman?

GIWPS ranked the top ten worst countries for women using data from 2023 Women Peace and Security Index scores. In the index, countries were given scores out of 1.0 based on inclusion, justice and safety of women. Inclusion included education, cell phone use, employment, financial inclusion and parliamentary representation of women in the countries. Justice referred to access to justice, legal discrimination and maternal mortality ratio. Safety included community safety, violence against women, political violence and proximity to conflict.

According to the scores, Afghanistan was ranked the worst country for women with a 0.286 score. Followed by Afghanistan was Yemen and the Central African Republic with 0.287 and 0.387 scores respectively. Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan and Burundi were also ranked the worst countries for women.

The seventh worst country for women was the Syrian Arab Republic with 0.407 score and eighth was Eswatini with 0.415 score. Somalia and Iraq were ranked ninth and tenth worst countries for women. Overall, the status of women declined in 13 countries between 2017 to 2023. Somalia, Haiti and Eswatini saw the biggest declines. Low education rates, high maternal mortality rates and high intimate partner violence were some of the biggest factors that gave these countries the lowest scores.

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by Arooj Ahmed via Digital Information World