The World Bank Group's latest sex-disaggregated data and gender statistics for Belgium, updated in April 2026. The database covers demography, education, health, economic opportunities, public life, and agency. It is part of the World Bank's Gender Equality Strategy 2016-2023, which focuses on improving gender data.
Use Cases
- Analyze gender gaps in economic participation based on the described access to economic opportunities data.
- Study trends in health and education outcomes based on the described sex-disaggregated demographic and health statistics.
- Model the relationship between gender equality and development outcomes based on the described coverage of demography, decision-making, and agency.
- Benchmark Belgium's gender equality indicators against other countries using the World Bank's standardized data portal.
Strengths
- Data is sourced from the authoritative World Bank Group.
- Covers multiple domains including demography, education, health, and economic opportunities as described.
- Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
- Last updated on 2026-04-27, suggesting recent data.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank Group
- Collection Method
- Aggregated from the World Bank's data portal.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-27 19:04:24.413132
- Geography
- Belgium