Global Gender Gap Index 2025
▪ The World Economic Forum has recently published the Global Gender Gap Report 2025.
▪ India has slipped to the 131st position out of 148 countries in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2025, a fall of two places compared to its 129th rank in 2024.
▪ Published annually since 2006, it is the longest-standing global index for assessing gender equality,
measuring countries’ progress in closing gender gaps across 4 key dimensions:
✓ Economic Participation and Opportunity
✓ Educational Attainment
✓ Health & Survival
✓ Political Empowerment
▪ Each dimension is scored on a scale from 0 to 1, where 1 represents full gender parity and 0 denotes complete inequality.
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released its 7th Frontiers report
▪ It warns of growing threats from extreme heat and toxic pollution to the world’s ageing population.
▪ The report marks how climate change and environmental hazards increasingly endanger older adults, especially in urban and low- to middle-income regions.
▪ Heat-related deaths among people aged 65 and above have surged by 85% since the 1990s.
▪ If global temperatures rise by 2°C, deaths could increase by 370% by 2050
