Africa: Nearly 40 Percent of the World's Girls and Women Live in Countries Failing On Gender Equality, SDG Index Finds

(Vancouver, Canada), WomenDeliver2019

Results for 129 countries measured by a new Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Gender Index released by Equal Measures 2030 show that the world is far from achieving gender equality, with 1.4 billion girls and women living in countries that get a "very poor" failing grade on gender equality.

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