A 2021 survey conducted by CEOWORLD magazine ranked the best countries for women.
156 counties across all the world’s continents were ranked on the basis of data mines from a survey.
The survey had 390,500 respondents who were all women from various countries.
9 attributes seved as metrics in the aggregate scores including: Gender Equality, Percentage of Legislative zeats held by women, Sense of security amongst females (females 15 years and older who reported feeling sage walking alone at night), income equality, human rights care, women empowerment, average age of education among women, women above 25 who were engaged in paid work and women’s inclusion in society.
Below is the list of Top 20 countries for women based on the surveyed data:
1. Netherlands:. 99.7% Score
2. Norway:. 99.4%
3. Sweden:. 99.2%
4. Denmark:. 98.7%
5. Finland:. 98.3%
6. Canada:. 97.5%
7. Switzerland:. 97.1%
8. New Zealand: 96.8%
9. France:. 96.4%
10. Germany:. 95.9%
11. Luxembourg: 95.7%
12. Austria:. 95.2%
13. Italy:. 94.8%
14. Spain:. 94.4%
15: Japan:. 93.69%
16. Australia:. 92.08%
17. UK:. 91.26%
18. Portugal:. 91.23%
19. Singapore:. 90.68%
20. USA:. 90.3%
South Africa is ranked 112th with a score of 71.01%, while Nigeria is ranked 130th with a score of 64.71.%
Ghana is ranked just below Nigeria with a score of 64.42%.
Bottom of the pile are Somalia (14.68%) and Central African Republic (12.93%) ranked in 155th and 156th respectively.