Pakistan, June 13 -- Pakistan was bottom-ranked among 148 countries in the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report 2025 - with 56.7 per cent gender parity - the highest since 2006, it emerged on Thursday.

The annual report benchmarked the current state and evolution of gender parity across four key dimensions: economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment.

In the latest report, Pakistan has been ranked below Sudan, (57pc, 147th), Chad (57.1pc, 146th), Iran (58.3pc,145th), Guinea (59.5pc, 144th), Democratic Republic of the Congo (60.1pc, 143rd), Niger (61.3pc,142nd), Algeria (61.4pc, 141st), and Mali (61.7pc, 140th).

Occupying the bottom rank of the index, Pa...