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Topic 08 of 18 · Country Index 2026
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Gender & Equality
How wide is the gap between women's and men's lives?
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is placed joint 116th of 183 countries on gender & equality in the Country Index 2026, from 2 of its 4 key statistics. Readings behind it: Women, Business and the Law 68.13 (2025); Firms with a Female Top Manager 21.53 (2025).
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joint116th
of 183 countries placed
Placed from 2 of 4 key statistics
- 68.13Women, Business and the Law, 2025WBL Index (0–100, where 100 is full legal parity)
- —Women's Political Empowerment Index, 2025No reading for this country
- 21.53Firms with a Female Top Manager, 2025Firms with a female top manager (%)
- —Social Institutions and Gender Index, 2023No reading for this country
01The evidence
The 4 key statistics that decide it
Only these place Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on gender & equality — one vote each. Every value is the publisher’s own, read at the edition the Country Index 2026 used — or, for a survey-based key, each country’s latest reading; the grey ticks are every other country it was compared with, lowest on the left.
68.13
WBL Index (0–100, where 100 is full legal parity)
Higher is better
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 68.13. Across the 190 countries in this edition, values run from 3.125 (Afghanistan) to 100 (Sweden); the world median is 81.25.
- World median
- 81.25
- Best in Caribbean
- 86.25 Dominican Republic
Key 2 of 4
Women's Political Empowerment Index
V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg
2025 edition · data for 2025 · CC BY-SA 4.0
No reading
Women's political empowerment index (0–1)
Higher is better
V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg publishes no 2025 figure for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, so the standing rests on the other keys.
Across the 176 countries in this edition, values run from 0.028 (Afghanistan) to 0.954 (Denmark); the world median is 0.772.
- World median
- 0.772
- Best in Caribbean
- 0.929 Jamaica
Key 3 of 4
Firms with a Female Top Manager
World Bank Group
Latest reading per country, 2016–2025 · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines’s is from 2025 · CC BY 4.0
21.53
Firms with a female top manager (%)
Higher is better
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 21.53. Across the 179 countries at their latest reading, values run from 1.429 (Qatar) to 62.9 (Kiribati); the world median is 19.16.
- World median
- 19.16
- Best in Caribbean
- 37.89 Jamaica
Key 4 of 4
Social Institutions and Gender Index
OECD
2023 edition · data for 2023 · OECD Terms and Conditions — data clause
No reading
SIGI score (0 = no discrimination, 100 = absolute)
Lower is better
OECD publishes no 2023 figure for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, so the standing rests on the other keys.
Across the 140 countries in this edition, values run from 6.7 (Norway) to 67.4 (Mauritania); the world median is 25.2.
- World median
- 25.2
- Best in Caribbean
- 14.8 Dominican Republic
02Over time
Which way Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is moving
Each key’s published value, edition by edition, beside the world median. The Country Index 2026 is the first edition of the standing, so the standing itself has no history to chart yet.
Women, Business and the Law
WBL Index (0–100, where 100 is full legal parity) · higher is better
Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesWorld median
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines rose from 65.63 in 2000 to 68.13 in 2025; the world median went from 63.13 to 81.25.
Every year’s figures
Year Saint Vincent and the Grenadines World median 2025 68 81.3 2023 68 81.3 2022 68 80.3 2021 68 80.0 2020 68 79.7 2019 68 78.8 2018 68 77.5 2017 68 77.5 2016 68 76.9 2015 68 75.9 2014 68 75.6 2013 68 75.0 2012 68 73.8 2011 68 73.1 2010 68 73.1 2009 68 72.5 2008 68 71.3 2007 68 69.7 2006 68 68.8 2005 68 67.2 2004 68 66.9 2003 66 64.7 2002 66 63.8 2001 66 63.8 2000 66 63.1
03In context
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines beside its neighbours
A position reads best beside the countries around it. Every position below is a place among all 183 countries on gender & equality, never a place within the region.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Caribbean
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has no land border, so the table compares it with its sub-region. Standing among all 183; the key columns are the publishers’ own values.
| Country | Standing | Women, Business and the LawWBL Index (0–100, where 100 is full legal parity) | Women's Political Empowerment IndexWomen's political empowerment index (0–1) | Firms with a Female Top ManagerFirms with a female top manager (%) | Social Institutions and Gender IndexSIGI score (0 = no discrimination, 100 = absolute) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Jamaica | =34th | 74.38 | 0.929 | 37.89 | 18.4 |
 Saint Lucia | 45th | 83.75 | — | 27.42 | — |
 Dominican Republic | 53rd | 86.25 | 0.825 | 20.41 | 14.8 |
 Grenada | 54th | 80.63 | — | 28.91 | — |
 Antigua and Barbuda | 73rd | 71.25 | — | 37.06 | — |
 Trinidad and Tobago | =75th | 75 | 0.874 | 23.5 | 25.3 |
 Barbados | 82nd | 80 | 0.895 | 16.87 | — |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | =116th | 68.13 | — | 21.53 | — |
 Haiti | 160th | 61.25 | 0.403 | — | 46.4 |
 Anguilla | not placed | — | — | — | — |
 Aruba | not placed | — | — | — | — |
 Bahamas | not placed | 81.25 | — | 33.22 | — |
 British Virgin Islands | not placed | — | — | — | — |
 Cayman Islands | not placed | — | — | — | — |
 Cuba | not placed | — | 0.71 | — | — |
 Curaçao | not placed | — | — | — | — |
 Dominica | not placed | 62.5 | — | 23.61 | — |
 Montserrat | not placed | — | — | — | — |
 Puerto Rico | not placed | 83.75 | — | — | — |
 Saint Kitts and Nevis | not placed | 71.25 | — | 21.06 | — |
 Saint Martin | not placed | — | — | — | — |
 Sint Maarten | not placed | — | — | — | — |
 Turks and Caicos Islands | not placed | — | — | — | — |
 United States Virgin Islands | not placed | — | — | — | — |
“—”: no published reading in that edition. What a standing is
Across Caribbean
Every country in the sub-region, by its place among all 183.
- Jamaica=34th
- Saint Lucia45th
- Dominican Republic53rd
- Grenada54th
- Antigua and Barbuda73rd
- Trinidad and Tobago=75th
- Barbados82nd
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines=116th
- Haiti160th
- Anguillanot placed
- Arubanot placed
- Bahamasnot placed
- British Virgin Islandsnot placed
- Cayman Islandsnot placed
- Cubanot placed
- Curaçaonot placed
- Dominicanot placed
- Montserratnot placed
- Puerto Riconot placed
- Saint Kitts and Nevisnot placed
- Saint Martinnot placed
- Sint Maartennot placed
- Turks and Caicos Islandsnot placed
- United States Virgin Islandsnot placed
Placed either side on gender & equality
The countries immediately above and below Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the topic’s list.
Tanzania115th
Israel=116th
Japan=116th- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines=116th
Belarus119th
Burkina Faso120th
Botswana121st
04Context, no vote
Where Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is ahead of the world, and behind
11 more statistics filed under gender & equality, published in full and deliberately given no vote in the standing. Select a row for the publisher, the rank and the links.
Ahead of the world median4
Statistics on which Saint Vincent and the Grenadines does better than the middle country measured.
Antenatal Care Coverage, At Least Four VisitsUNICEF · 2025 · world median 8199.581No earlier reading
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 99.5 · world median 81 · Women with a live birth who had 4+ antenatal visits (%). UNICEF, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 22.6 to 100; higher is better.
Position 4th of 153 · derived.
Female Labour Force Participation RateILO · 2025 · world median 53.3659.2253.36▲ Improved since 2015
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 59.22 · world median 53.36 · Women aged 15+ in the labour force (%). International Labour Organization (ILO), 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 4.663 to 82.91; higher is better.
Position 52nd of 182 · derived.
Demand for Family Planning Satisfied by Modern MethodsUN DESA Population Division · 2023 · world median 71.2578.271.25▼ Worsened since 2013
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 78.2 · world median 71.25 · Share of women aged 15–49 wanting to avoid pregnancy who use a modern method (%). UN DESA Population Division, 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 8.4 to 92.4; higher is better.
Position 58th of 196 · derived.
Firms with Female Participation in OwnershipWorld Bank Group · 2026 · world median 35.1241.1935.12No earlier reading
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 41.19 · world median 35.12 · Firms with at least one woman among the owners (%). World Bank Group, 2026 edition, data for 2026.
Published values in that edition run from 1.273 to 86.78; higher is better.
Position 64th of 181 · derived.
Behind the world median5
Statistics on which Saint Vincent and the Grenadines does worse than the middle country measured.
Maternal Mortality RatioMMEIG · 2023 · world median 46.6555.8446.65No real change since 2013
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 55.84 · world median 46.65 · Maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. UN Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group (MMEIG), 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 0.11 to 992.83; lower is better.
Position 91st of 195 · derived, 1st = worst.
Length of Paid Maternity LeaveWorld Bank Group · 2025 · world median 989198▼ Worsened since 2015
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 91 · world median 98 · Paid maternity leave set in law (calendar days). World Bank Group, 2026 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 410; higher is better.
Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19)UN DESA Population Division · 2023 · world median 27.4642.327.46▲ Improved since 2013
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 42.3 · world median 27.46 · Live births per 1,000 women aged 15–19. UN DESA Population Division, 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 0.465 to 163.09; lower is better.
Position 81st of 222 · derived, 1st = worst.
Legal Guarantees of Women's Equal Rights to LandFAO · 2025 · world median 323No earlier reading
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 2 · world median 3 · Level of legal guarantees of women's equal rights to land ownership and control, 1 (lowest) to 6 (highest). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 1 to 6; higher is better.
Length of Paid Paternity LeaveWorld Bank Group · 2025 · world median 303▼ Worsened since 2015
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 0 · world median 3 · Paid paternity leave set in law (calendar days). World Bank Group, 2026 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 196; higher is better.
No better end2
These describe the shape of a country — more is not better or worse, only different — so they are never ahead or behind.
Sex Ratio at BirthUN DESA Population Division · 2023 · world median 105.1103.3105.1Moved since 2013
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 103.3 · world median 105.1 · Male births per 100 female births. UN DESA Population Division, 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 101.1 to 116.3.
Mean Age at First Marriage, WomenUN DESA Population Division · 2019 · world median 24.6521.224.65No earlier reading
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 21.2 · world median 24.65 · Singulate mean age at marriage, women (years). UN DESA Population Division, 2019 edition, data for 2019.
Published values in that edition run from 17 to 34.
No current reading for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Account Ownership Among Women, Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff (last 2021), Caesarean Section Rate, Child Marriage, Female Genital Mutilation Prevalence, Female Share of Researchers, Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, Female Share of STEM Graduates, Female-Headed Households, Gender Development Index, Gender Inequality Index, Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment (last 2022), Gender Social Norms Index, Global Gender Parity Index, Institutional Deliveries, Social Institutions and Gender Index, Women Who Think a Husband Is Justified in Hitting or Beating His Wife, Women's Empowerment Index, Women's Political Empowerment Index and Women's Share of Agricultural Landowners. Listed rather than hidden, so the page can be checked against it.
“Position · derived” is this site’s ordering of the published values, 1st = best unless the row says otherwise; the publisher ranks no country on it. Rank, position and standing
05Country Index 2026
Gender & Equality among Saint Vincent and the Grenadines’s 14 topics
Gender & Equality is Saint Vincent and the Grenadines’s 11th best-placed topic of 14. Strongest first, each marker at its share of that topic’s field.
- Education & Knowledge11th of 1983/4 keys
- Food & Agriculture18th of 1844/4 keys
- Democracy & Civil Liberties42nd of 1982/4 keys
- Risk & Resiliencejoint 59th of 1933/4 keys
- Environment & Sustainabilityjoint 78th of 1862/4 keys
- Governance & Institutions82nd of 1943/4 keys
- Economy & Innovation85th of 1762/4 keys
- Development & Human Capital95th of 1963/3 keys
- Health & Wellbeing109th of 2002/4 keys
- Mobility & Trade103rd of 1772/4 keys
- Gender & Equalityjoint 116th of 1832/4 keys
- Work & Labour131st of 1824/4 keys
- Energy124th of 1652/3 keys
- Digital & Technologyjoint 174th of 1983/4 keys
No standing on Peace & Security, Poverty & Inequality: too few of those topics’ key statistics are published for this country.
06The top of the list
Who leads on gender & equality
The three countries placed highest of 183, and the leaders Saint Vincent and the Grenadines can most readily be measured against.
1
LatviaNorthern Europe
1st of 183 · 4 of 4 keys
Photo: Marcin Szala · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
2
TaiwanEastern Asia
2nd of 183 · 3 of 4 keys
Photo: xiangyang17 · CC BY-SA 2.0, greyscale
3
ItalySouthern Europe
3rd of 183 · 4 of 4 keys
Photo: Francisco Antunes · CC BY 2.0, greyscale
Placed highest nearby
Highest in Americas
Costa Rica5th4/4 keysHighest in Caribbean
Jamaica=34th4/4 keysThis page
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines=116th2/4 keys
Positions out of 183 placed on the topic. A country needs readings on enough keys to be placed, and the top of the list is often held on fewer of them.
07Questions
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on gender & equality: questions answered
Every answer is built from the numbers on this page, so none can say something the page does not.
How does Saint Vincent and the Grenadines rank on gender & equality?
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is placed joint 116th of 183 countries on Gender & Equality in the Country Index 2026, from 2 of its 4 key statistics (Women, Business and the Law and Firms with a Female Top Manager). The position is this site’s ordering of published statistics, not a rank any publisher printed.
What is the latest Women, Business and the Law figure for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines?
68.13 in 2025 (wBL Index (0–100, where 100 is full legal parity)), according to World Bank Group. The world median in the same edition was 81.25.
What is the latest Firms with a Female Top Manager figure for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines?
21.53 in 2025 (firms with a female top manager (%)), according to World Bank Group. The world median in the same edition was 19.16.
How have Saint Vincent and the Grenadines’s gender & equality figures changed?
Women, Business and the Law rose from 65.63 in 2000 to 68.13 in 2025.
Which gender & equality statistics are missing for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines?
No current reading is published for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on Account Ownership Among Women, Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff, Caesarean Section Rate, Child Marriage, Female Genital Mutilation Prevalence, Female Share of Researchers, Female Share of Senior and Middle Management, Female Share of STEM Graduates, Female-Headed Households, Gender Development Index, Gender Inequality Index, Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, Gender Social Norms Index, Global Gender Parity Index, Institutional Deliveries, Social Institutions and Gender Index, Women Who Think a Husband Is Justified in Hitting or Beating His Wife, Women's Empowerment Index, Women's Political Empowerment Index and Women's Share of Agricultural Landowners. They are listed rather than hidden, so the evidence on the page can be checked against it.
08Method
Method, sources and how to cite
What this topic does not measure
Violence against women is not a key here, because comparable data covers too few countries. The Gender Inequality Index is published here as context rather than as a key: its reading is driven largely by maternal and adolescent health, which moves with a country’s overall development and is already measured under Development and Health. Women’s labour force participation, women in management and child marriage are published here as context too.
How the Gender & Equality standing is decided
A standing is this site’s ordering, named with its edition — never a publisher’s rank. 4 key statistics vote, one vote each; every country’s published value becomes a place within that key’s own field, the places are averaged, and the average is never published. A country needs 2 of the 4 keys to be placed.
The gender & equality method, step by stepHow every standing on this site is built
The key statistics and their licences
- Women, Business and the Law — World Bank Group, CC BY 4.0
- Women's Political Empowerment Index — V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Firms with a Female Top Manager — World Bank Group, CC BY 4.0
- Social Institutions and Gender Index — OECD, OECD Terms and Conditions — data clause
The other 11 statistics on this page come from 6 publishers, each named beside its numbers, with every edition and licence on the datasets pages.
The standing itself is part of the Country Index 2026, published under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photographs
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines’s banner and the countries placed highest, from their profiles: Wikimedia Commons, shown in greyscale, each used under the licence named.
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (banner) — Nikonian derivative work: Jjtkk, CC BY 3.0
- Latvia — Marcin Szala, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Taiwan — xiangyang17, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Italy — Francisco Antunes, CC BY 2.0
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Gender & Equality — standing and statistics, Country Index 2026. https://nationsinquiry.com/countries/saint-vincent-and-the-grenadines/gender