Higher GDP per capita linked to greater women's political empowerment
Comparing Gross Domestic Product — Value US$ per capita with Key features of womens political empowerment, gaps filled across 152 countries, 2025–2025.
- Rank correlation
- +0.61
- Holding size constant
- +0.44
- Countries compared
- 152
- Period
- 2025–2025
What might link these
Wealthier nations may invest more in gender equality institutions, but correlation doesn’t prove causation. A careful reader should note that cultural norms or historical factors could drive both indicators.
Why this is not proof of anything
This is a correlation across countries, not an experiment. It cannot show that either indicator causes the other, and both may simply follow a third thing. Correlation may reflect broader development patterns rather than a direct link.
The second figure above repeats the measurement with national population and income held constant. It is the more conservative number: a relationship that largely disappears there was mostly telling you that larger, richer countries have more of most things.
How this was measured
Both indicators were ranked across every country reporting each, and the two rankings compared — ranks rather than raw values, because a handful of very large countries can otherwise manufacture a relationship on their own. The calculation is arithmetic over figures already published on this site; the commentary above is drafted from the two indicator names and the resulting coefficients.