The 2024 Women Peace and Security Index (WPS), a revelation by Georgetown University, has ranked a total of 177 countries on the basis of their inclusion, justice, and safety for women.

Some of the top issues that these reports evaluate for these rankings include education, employment, financial inclusion, cell phone use, parliamentary representation, absence of legal discrimination, justice, maternal mortality ratio, son bias, domestic violence, community safety, political violence targeting women, and proximity to conflict, states Forbes.

For the 14th year in a row, Iceland has taken the top position in these rankings – with the gender gap estimated to be 91.2% closed. It is the only country to have closed more than 90% of its gap.

As per Forbes, the rankings show:

The above findings show that Iceland is the most feminist and gender-equal country in the world. In fact, it has been the most gender-equal country in the world for the last 15 years.

Iceland has had the female head of state for almost 25 years and this year 48% of its parliament members are female.