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SDG 5

Gender Equality

Achieve gender equality and empower women and girls.

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Ireland: Significant challenges remain· Moderately improving

Official figures from the Sustainable Development Report 2026 (Sachs, Lafortune, Fuller, Iablonovski — SDSN), shown as published — only the layout is ours. The report is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. This site is not affiliated with or endorsed by SDSN. Imported from their published database on 2026-09-21.

What this goal covers

  • •End all forms of discrimination against women and girls
  • •Eliminate violence against women and girls, including trafficking and exploitation
  • •End harmful practices such as child marriage and female genital mutilation

Simplified from the UN's official targets for this goal.

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Goal 5 score, by country

Ireland Other countries
1Spain
94.3/100
2Belgium
93.5/100
3Sweden
93.4/100
4Australia
90.1/100
5Iceland
88.8/100
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51Ireland
72.5/100
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164Mauritania
22.9/100
165Sudan
19.9/100
166Mali
13.2/100
167Niger
12.6/100
168Antigua and Barbuda
9.2/100

Ireland is in rank group 51 of 168 (out of 168 countries with a score for this goal).

What makes up Ireland's score (73 out of 100)

The average of 5 indicator scores, one per official target area. Each bar scores Ireland from 0 to 100 on that indicator: the best 10% of countries count as 100, the worst 5% as 0.

  • 5.1 Equality at work · Laws promoting gender equality: employment and economic benefits90% (2024)
    83
  • 5.2 Laws against violence · Laws promoting gender equality: violence against women88.9% (2024)
    80
  • 5.5 Women in leadership · Women's share of senior and middle management37.8% (2024)
    74
  • 5.1 Equality laws · Laws promoting gender equality: overarching frameworks and public life80% (2024)
    71
  • 5.5 Women in politics · Seats held by women in national parliament25.3% (2025)
    54

3 other indicators for this goal have no recent data for Ireland, so they aren't in the average.

Not covered: Unpaid care work (5.4), women's land rights (5.a) and women's phone ownership (5.b) have too little recent country data.

Simplified score, may contain errors. See how it's built

Chart data: World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0) and the UN SDG Global Database (UNdata terms). Each goal score (0–100, 100 = best) averages a country's scores on several official indicators, one per main target area of the goal (8 for this goal). Each indicator is scored against a range set by the data: the best 10% of countries count as 100, the worst 5% as 0. Latest value per country since 2010; fetched 2026-09-22. The scores are calculated by this site; the underlying values are the sources', unchanged. Not covered: Unpaid care work (5.4), women's land rights (5.a) and women's phone ownership (5.b) have too little recent country data. How the scores are built →

County-level data isn't published for this goal yet — Ireland's CSO currently only breaks a handful of SDG indicators down by county.

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