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The Government of the Republic of Serbia

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Serbia achieves huge progress in gender equality

Belgrade, 6 April 2021

The Serbian government stated today that according to the annual report of the World Economic Forum on gender equality, Serbia occupies the 19^th place in the world, and this is a progress of 20 places in relation to the previous year.

In the region of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the Republic of Serbia ranks second. Only Lithuania is before our country.

What is a very important indicator for our country is that Serbia is listed among the five countries with the greatest progress in relation to the previous year.

According to the report of the World Economic Forum, Iceland ranks first in the field of gender equality. This is the 12^th time that this country holds the first place on this list. The second is Finland and the third is the Kingdom of Norway.

As for the region of the Western Balkans Albania ranks 25th, the Republic of Croatia 45th, Montenegro is three places below, whereas Bosnia and Herzegovina ranks 76th.

The aim of this index, which has been published once a year since 2006, is the evaluation of gender gaps in different spheres of life and the measuring of the progress achieved.

The report also contains data on the link between gender quality and the economic success of states, as well as related implications on the political and business practices.

A special section of this year's report deals with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on gender equality in all countries of the world.