Gender Gap Report – Sultanate of Oman 2025

This report is part of the Arab Countries Gender Gap Reports Series (2026 Edition) developed by the Research and Studies Unit at Professional Tools for Training & Capacity Building.

It provides an institutional analytical assessment of the Sultanate of Oman’s performance in the Global Gender Gap Index 2025, published by the World Economic Forum. The analysis examines gender disparities across four dimensions: Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment.

Oman ranks 134th globally out of 148 countries, with an overall score of 0.637, indicating that approximately 63.7% of the gender gap has been closed.

The report reveals a structurally unbalanced pattern: very strong performance in education and relatively stable outcomes in health, contrasted with constrained economic participation and very low political empowerment.

The findings highlight that the core challenge is not the absence of female human capital, but the limited institutional capacity to translate this capital into labor market participation, economic returns, leadership representation, and decision-making power.