World Bank Gender Statistics for West Bank and Gaza

The World Bank Group's database hosts the latest sex-disaggregated data and gender statistics covering demography, education, health, access to economic opportunities, public life and decision-making, and agency. It is part of the organization's Gender Equality Strategy 2016-2023, which aims to address persistent gaps and focus on more and better gender data. The data is available in CSV format and was last updated on 2026-04-28.

Use Cases

• Analyze gender gaps in education and health outcomes based on sex-disaggregated data mentioned in the description
• Model the relationship between gender equality and economic growth based on indicators covering access to economic opportunities
• Track progress on gender representation in public life and decision-making based on agency and public life statistics

Strengths

• Data is sourced from the authoritative World Bank Group, which is continually scaling up commitments to fill gender data gaps.
• The dataset covers multiple thematic areas including demography, education, health, and economic opportunities.
• It is published under the permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, facilitating reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update timestamp is in the future (2026-04-28).

Provenance

Source

World Bank Group

Collection Method

Aggregated from the World Bank's data portal.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-28 10:35:47.266796

Geography

West Bank and Gaza