Demographic and Social Statistics

Gender Statistics


The World's Women 2015: Trends and Statistics
The World's Women 2015: Trends and Statistics
Evidence and Data for Gender Equality (EDGE)
8th global forum on gender statistics

About the Global Gender Statistics Programme

The Global Gender Statistics Programme is mandated by the United Nations Statistical Commission, implemented by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and coordinated by the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Gender Statistics IAEG-GS.

The Programme encompasses:

  • improving coherence among existing initiatives on gender statistics through international coordination
  • developing and promoting methodological guidelines in existing domains as well as in emerging areas of gender concern
  • strengthening national statistical and technical capacity for the production, dissemination and use of gender relevant data
  • facilitating access to gender relevant data and metadata through a newly developed data portal (forthcoming).

UNSD serves as Secretariat of the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Gender Statistics (IAEG-GS), the coordinating and guiding body of the Global Gender Statistics Programme. The IAEG-GS was first convened in 2006, meets annually and functions through advisory groups. Presently, the main advisory group's work concentrates on examining emerging and unaddressed key gender issues and related data gap with the aim to develop proposals on how to fill these gaps.

This website serves as a platform for the dissemination of developments in the field of gender statistics and promotes the inclusion of gender statistics into all fields of statistical activities at both the national and international levels.


Background documents

STATISTICAL COMMISSION PAPERS

 
The Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Gender Statistics (IAEG-GS)

The IAEG-GS brings together representatives of international agencies within and outside United Nations system, statisticians from National Statistical Systems, and development partners, to review progress and provide guidance on future activities geared at advancing gender statistics. The UN Statistics Division is the secretariat of the group.

List of gender-relevant SDG indicators by the IAEG-GS (updated November 2021)

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Members - Countries

  • Brazil
  • Canada
  • Colombia
  • Finland
  • Georgia
  • Ghana
  • India
  • Italy
  • Japan (Co-Chair)
  • Jordan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Mexico
  • Moldova
  • Morocco
  • Philippines
  • South Africa
  • Switzerland (Co-Chair)
  • Uganda
  • United States
  • Viet Nam
  • Zimbabwe

The World's Women reports

The World's Women reports are prepared by the Statistics Division of the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) at five-year intervals, starting in 1990. Seven reports have been published as part of the The World's Women series.


World's Women Report 2015
2020 Edition now available!

The World's Women 2020: Trends and Statistics compiles 100 data stories that provide a snapshot of the state of gender equality worldwide. Presented on an interactive portal, the report analyses gender equality in six critical areas: population and families; health; education; economic empowerment and asset ownership; power and decision-making; and violence against women and the girl child as well as the impact of COVID-19.


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World's Women Report 1990
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World's Women Report 1995
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World's Women Report 2000
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World's Women Report 2005
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World's Women Report 2010
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World's Women Report 2015

Contact: genderstat@un.org

Evidence and Data for Gender Equality (EDGE)

The Evidence and Data for Gender Equality (EDGE) project is a joint initiative of the United Nations Statistics Division and UN Women that seeks to improve the integration of gender issues into the regular production of official statistics for better, evidence-based policies.

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