Morocco is ranked 136th by the recently issued World Economic Forum report, the Global Gender Gap. Although the kingdom managed to better its positioning and score compared to last year, it remains one of the least performing countries in the world. Morocco is at the bottom of the ranking provided by the Global Gender Gap Report. The survey issued on the 2nd of November by the World Economic Forum ranks the Kingdom 136th among 144 studied nations. Scoring 0,598 on a scale from 0.0 to 1.0, the country remains one of the worst performing states in the region. Indeed, Morocco is ranked 12th in the MENA region followed by Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria and Yemen. The same list is topped by Tunisia 1st (117th), UAE 2nd (120th), Bahrain 3rd (126th) and Algeria 4th (127th). In the Maghreb region, the Kingdom is 4th behind, Tunisia 1st, Algeria 2nd and Mauritania 3rd. The report published annually since 2006, tracks countries performances based on four subindexes. Measuring the Global Gender Gap, the survey indicates that Morocco is 137th in the Economic Participation and Opportunity scoring 0,391. It is 122nd when it comes to Educational Attainment with 0,920 points. The kingdom is rated 128th for Health and Survival attaining 0,965 points. For the Political Empowerment subindex, Morocco is 100 with 0,117 as a score. A widening gender gap on the Political Empowerment According to the authors of the report, «Morocco and Lebanon all of which have made progress on closing their gender gap in labor force participation but also see a widening gender gap on the Political Empowerment subindex». Morocco performed slightly better than last year in the report. According to the 2016 edition of the Global Gender Gap report Morocco was positioned 137th in the world scoring 0,597 points. The Global ranking is topped by Iceland 1st, Norway 2nd, Finland 3rd, Rwanda 4th, and Sweden 5th. At the bottom of the list comes Yemen last, behind Pakistan 143rd, Syria 142nd, Chad 141st, Iran 140th and Mali 139th. According to the authors of the survey, «four regions have a remaining gender gap of less than 30%—two of which are crossing this threshold for the first time this year». For them «the Middle East and North Africa region, for the first time this year, crosses the threshold of having a remaining gender gap of slightly less than 40%».
