Central Administration of Statistics, in partnership with UNDP, launches Lebanon’s first gender statistical report

Central Administration of Statistics, in partnership with UNDP, launches Lebanon’s first gender statistical report

NNA - The Central Administration of Statistics (CAS), in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), launched today Lebanon’s first gender statistical report entitled “The life of Women and Men in Lebanon: A Statistical Portrait”. The report provides the most comprehensive compilation of gender-disaggregated statistics and indicators and highlights key trends underpinning the country’s progress towards achieving gender equality over the past 15 years. The report focuses on six thematic areas, namely: demography, health, education, labor market, socio-economic conditions, decision-making and human rights.

Specifically, the report shows that progress towards achieving gender equality varies across life domains. For instance, education is an area where gender parity has been achieved in Lebanon whereby the country is considered well positioned when it comes to school attendance for primary school age. The Net Attendance Rate for both girls and boys of the corresponding age-groups is at nearly