Women, Peace, and Security Index 2023/24: Tracking Sustainable Peace through Inclusion, Justice, and Security for Women

The Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Index 2023/24, the fourth since the inaugural 2017/18 index, ranks 177 countries and economies on women’s status. As the only index to bring together indicators of women’s inclusion, justice, and security, the WPS Index is a valuable measure of women’s status that can be used to track trends, guide policymaking, and hold governments account able for their promises to advance women’s rights and opportunities. The WPS Index reveals glaring disparities around the world. All countries on the index have room for improvement, and many perform considerably better or worse on some indicators of women’s status than on others. These cases underline the importance of measuring women’s status in its many dimensions. Societies where women are doing well are also more peaceful, democratic, prosperous, and better prepared to adapt to the impacts of climate change, according to correlations between our WPS Index and other global indices. The outcomes on these global indices are more strongly correlated with women’s status than they are with national income, underlining the importance of investing in women.