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Estimated earned income, female (PPP USD)k 2006 11,753
Estimated earned income, male (PPP USD)k 2006 17,025
Gender empowerment measure^2
Gender empowerment measure (GEM) rank 2006 38 of 179
Gender empowerment measure (GEM) value 2006 0.622
Seats in Parliament held by women (% of total) 2007 20.9
Female legislators, senior officials and managers (% of total) 2006 26
Female professional and technical workers (% of total) 2006 51
Ratio of estimated female to male earned income 2006 0.69
Gender inequality in education
Adult literacy, female rate (% aged 15 and older) 1995-2005f 97.1
Adult literacy rate, ratio of female rate to male rate 1995-2005f 0.98
Youth literacy, female rate (% aged 15-24) 1995-2005f 99.7
Youth literacy, ratio of female rate to male rate 1995-2005f 1.00
Gender inequality in economic activity
Female economic activity rate (% aged 15 and older) 2005 44.7
Female economic activity index (1990=100, aged 15 and older) 2005 96
Female economic activity as % of male rate (aged 15 and older) 2005 74
Female employment in agriculture (%) 2005 19
Male employment in agriculture (%) 2005 16
Female employment in industry (%) 2005 18
Male employment in industry (%) 2005 37
Female employment in services (%) 2005 63
Male employment in services (%) 2005 47
Women contributing family workers (%) 2005 73
Men contributing family workers (%) 2005 27
NOTES
a. Data refer to national literacy estimates from censuses or sur-
veys conducted between 1999 and 2006.
b. UNESCO Institute for Statistics estimates which are based on its
Global Age-specific Literacy Projections model – April 2008.
c. Data refer to estimates for the period specified.
d. National or UNESCO Institute for Statistics estimate.
e. Data refer to national literacy estimates from censuses or sur-
veys conducted between 1985 and 1994.
f. Data refer to national literacy estimates from censuses or sur-
veys conducted between 1995 and 2005.
g. Data refer to an earlier year than that specified.
h. Data refer to a period shorter than that specified.
i. Data refer to the closest available year between 1988 and 1992.
j. Data refer to the closest available year between 1991 and 1992.
k. PPP (purchasing power parity) is a rate of exchange that ac-
counts for price differences across countries, allowing interna-
tional comparison of real output and incomes. At the PPP USD
rate PPP, 1 USD has the same purchasing power in the domes-
tic economy as 1 USD in the United States. GDP per capita (PPPUSD) is GDP (in purchasing power parity terms in USD) divided
by the midyear population (UNDP 2007: 366, 369).
l. Data were collected during one of the years specified.
(.) Greater (or less) than zero but small enough to be rounded to
zero at the displayed number of decimal points.SOURCES
Main source:- UNDP. 2007. Human Development Report 2007/2008. Fighting
Climate Change; Human Solidarity in a Divided World. New York.
[http://hdr.undp.org/en/]. 8/2008.
Other sources:- UNDP. 2008. Human Development Indices: A statistical update
2008. New York. - CBS. 2008. Statistical Information 2008. Zagreb, Croatia http://
[http://www.dzs.hr/]. 9/2008. - CBS. 2007. Statistical Yearbook 2007. Zagreb, Croatia http://
[http://www.dzs.hr/]. 9/2008.
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