Turkmenistan has secured the 58th position out of 177 countries in the 2023 Women, Peace, and Security Index (WPS Index), Fergana.ru reports.
This represents the best result among Central Asian countries. Kazakhstan comes in second place in the region, occupying the 70th position, Tajikistan is at 90th, Uzbekistan at 94th, and Kyrgyzstan at 95th.
The top-performing countries in the world are Denmark, Switzerland, and Sweden, ranked first, second, and third, respectively. The worst-performing countries are Afghanistan (177th), Yemen (176th), and the Central African Republic (175th).
Russia ranked one place above Turkmenistan at 56th, the United States is at 37th, China at 82nd, Turkey at 99th, South Korea at 30th (North Korea is not in the ranking), and Iran at 140th.
In preparing the WPS Index, its authors considered the situation in countries based on 13 indicators distributed across three categories:
Inclusiveness (education, access to financial services, employment, mobile phone usage, women's representation in parliament). Justice (absence of legal discrimination, access to justice, maternal mortality, bias). Security (intimate partner violence, women's perceptions of their safety in society, political violence against women, proximity to armed conflict). The data for the report were collected from sources such as UN agencies, the World Bank, global Gallup surveys, and others.
The authors of the WPS Index emphasize that countries where women feel good are generally more prosperous, peaceful, democratic, and better prepared to adapt to the effects of climate change.
CentralasianLIGHT.org
October 30, 2023