Women's empowerment linked to SDR allocation
Comparing Women's Political Empowerment Index with SDR Allocation, SDR, per capita across 170 countries, 2025–2025.
- Rank correlation
- +0.60
- Holding size constant
- +0.44
- Countries compared
- 170
- Period
- 2025–2025
What might link these
The relationship between women's political empowerment and SDR allocation per capita might be influenced by a country's overall economic stability and development, which could be a confounder. A careful reader should consider that cultural and institutional factors could also play a significant role. Education level is a likely confounder that could affect 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. This correlation might mislead because it does not account for other factors that could drive both women's empowerment and SDR allocation, such as a country's institutional strength and human development index.
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.