COUNTRY GENDER EQUALITY PROFILE
The Profile is to be based on the national and various agency annual statistical
reports, last census, sociological studies, mass-media. International websites may be
used also. Indicate information for the latest year available.
IT IS IMPORTANT TO SHOW THE SOURCE AND YEAR OF THE
DATA FOR EACH INDICATOR
A GOOD PRACTICE IS TO PRESENT THE INDICATORS FOR THE LAST 5 YEARS IN
DYNAMIC, WHERE PRACTICABLE («GROWS, FALLS, STABLE», where changes are
significant, indicate coefficient of growth or reduction for 5 years)
Country:
Kyrgyz Republic
Population: 5.3 mln
Type of governance:
Parliament
(Democratic Republic, Federal Republic, Parliament Democracy, Presidential etc.)
Date of Constitution: 1993.
Is gender equality (equality between men and women) specifically guaranteed in the
Constitution? YES
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NO
Is equality guaranteed in the Constitution? YES ∨ NO
Highlights
Several bullet points giving the gender equality priorities in the country. Such
priorities will have been identified by a range of stakeholders and should be easily
accessible. Keep it brief.
National framework
 Legislation – specific gender equality (GE) legislation, plus any other
where GE is guaranteed - yes
 Women’s legal position in relation to inheritance, land tenure, housing rights,
family law and labour law. - no
 Strategy – specific GE strategy or any other where GE is mentioned. - no
 National Action Plan on 1325
International Commitments
 List international human rights instruments to which the country is a party
o CEDAW – Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination Against Women (1979)
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o CEDAW Optional Protocol (2000)
o CERD – Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial
Discrimination (1996) ∨
o CRD Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)∨
ILO C100 – Equal Remuneration Convention (1951) ∨
o ILO C111 – Discrimination (Employment and Occupation)
Convention (1958)∨
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o ILO C156 – Workers with Family Responsibilities Convention (1981)
o ILO C183 – Maternity Protection Convention (2000)∨
 National action on international human rights commitments, eg. CEDAW
report (date of last report)
2011 R. Otunbayeva speech in Washington
 Membership of Council of Europe
International Cooperation
 List all donor organisations, and if possible, with the level of their financial
commitment and name their gender equality priorities or programme focus.
 List specific major donor funded gender equality projects carried out in
conjunction with national government that have taken place in last five years.
Gender Inequality Indices1
Gender Inequality Index (calculated since 2010)
Gender
Inequality
Index (GII)
rank
Gender
Inequality
Index (GII)
value
Maternal
mortality
(per 100
thousand live
births)
51. 3
Adolescent fertility
(number of births by
women of 15-19
years age per 1000
women)
81. 7
Seats in
national
parliament (%
female)
23. 9
Population with
at least
secondary
education (%
ages 25 and
older)
Female
Male
Labour force
participation
rate (%)
Female
Male
51.6
47.1
70.7
48.4
Reproductive health
Contraceptive
prevalence rate, any
method (% of married
women ages 15-49)
At least one antenatal
visit
(%)
Births attended by
skilled health personnel
(%)
Total fertility rate
98.3
3.1
30.3
Human Development Index (calculated since 1990, education and income
indicators changed in 2010)
Human
Development
Index (HDI)
rank
Human
Development
Index (HDI)
value
Life Expectancy
at Birth (years)
Mean years of schooling
(average number of
schooling years in age of 25
and older)
Expected years of schooling
(number of oncoming
schooling years for a
schoolable child)
69.3
Gender-Related Development Index (calculated until 2010, provide latest data
available showing the year)
Gender-related Development
Index (GDI)
Life Expectancy at Birth (years)
Adult Literacy rate (% ages 15
and above)
Rank
Female
Males
Female
73.5
65.3
Value
Male
1Certain
indicators in the gender inequality indices may repeat. However, we have left the tables
as they are presented in the world statistical sources for completion convenience
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GNI
by PPP
in US
dollars
Gross School Enrolment Ratio (%)
Estimated Earned Income (PPP US$):
Female
Female
Males
Males
Gender Empowerment Index (calculated until 2010, provide latest data available
showing the year)
Gender Empowerment
Measure (GEM)
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Значение
Seats in
Parliament held
by women (%
of total)
Female legislators,
senior officials and
managers (% of
total)
23.9
39.9
Female
professional and
technical workers
(% of total)
Ratio of estimated
female to male
earned income
Gender Gap Index of World Economic Forum (calculated since 2005)
Economic participation
Female
labour force
participation
over male
value
Wage
equality
between
women
and men
for
similar
work
Estimated
female
earned
income
over male
value
Female
legislators,
senior
officials
and
managers
over male
value
Educational attainment
Female
professional
and
technical
workers
over male
value
Political empowerment
Women with
seats in
parliament
over male value
Women at
ministerial
level over male
value
Number of years with a
female head of state or
government (last 50
years)
Female
literacy
rate
over
male
value
Female
net
primary
level
enrolment
over male
value
Female
net
secondary
level
enrolment
over male
value
Female
gross
tertiary
level
enrolment
over male
value
Health and survival
Female healthy life
expectance over male
value
Sex ratio at birth
Demographic parameters
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Population growth rate
Number of women - 2 773 332 persons, men – 2 703 688
Rural population rate, women – 1 791 776, men – 1 824 127
Total birth rate – 3.1, mortality rate – 11.9, marriage rate - 9.2, divorce rate –
1.5
Natural increase rate
Migration gain rate
Average age at the first marriage, women – 23.5, men – 26.9
Number of early marriages for women (in age below 18 years) – 9197, men –
799
Bastardy rate – 30.9
Average age at the birth of the first child
Infant mortality rate (below 1 year) – 3 337
Child mortality rate (below 5 year) – 3 809
Mortality rates by the main death causes by gender (circulatory diseases,
malignant neoplasms, respiratory diseases, alimentary system diseases,
malignant tumours, infections, external causes (murders, suicide, poisoning,
injuries, MVA etc.) – 36 174
Social disease morbidity by gender (tuberculosis, AIDS, sexually transmitted
disease etc.) – any indicators available – 11.1
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Abortions per 100 births
Abortions per 1000 women – 14.3
An opportunity for a free abortion, the cost of abortion
Average household size
Rate of households with children of age below 18 years
Rate of large families with number of children of 3 and above, 5 and above
Rate of incomplete families
Number of immigrants and emigrants for a year period by gender and age,
marital status, settlement (urban – rural)
Socio-economic status parameters
Income and welfare
 GDP value – USD 5 bln., GDP per capita (in the national currency, dollars,
growth rate) – KGS 60 610
 Consumer price index – 4 647 soms
 Average monthly nominal and actual (with account of price index) wage (in
the national currency, dollars, growth rate) women – 5 271 soms, men – 8 282 soms
 Minimum wage (in the national currency, dollars)
 Income of self-employed population in agriculture (in the national currency,
dollars)
 Average monthly nominal and actual (with account of price index) income (in
the national currency, dollars, growth rate)
 Level of subsistence minimum (if any) – 3502.62 soms
 Ratio between the minimum wage and minimum subsistence level for the
working-age population
 Population without access to minimum subsistence level in thousands of
persons by gender, % of the total population
 Differentiation coefficient (10% high income persons to 10% low income
persons)
 Structure of the poor by gender and basic age groups (children, youth,
employable, unemployable)
 Food products consumption per capita by the main types (kg) (by gender and
age groups)
 Durables supply per household (or per capita) by the basic types
 Total accommodation area per capita, sq. m.
 Average number of rooms in various types of households
 Accommodation quality (availability of water supply, sewage, heating)
 Number of cars per 1000 persons
 Women and men land access (% owners)
 Land availability (limits in ha)
 Female land owners rate
Economical participation, employment and unemployment
 Female company owners rate
 Main employment branches in % (agriculture, industry, commerce and
services, state funded social and cultural branch, administration)
 Main “female” and “male” branches
 Working-age population rate, including that by gender
 Economically active population (by gender)
 Economically inactive population, involved in housework (by gender)
 Female and male rates in informal economy
 The number and the rate of the employed below working age (by gender)
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 Male and female unemployment level (registered, as defined by the ILO)
 Male and female retirement age
 Numbers of the retired, by gender, number of persons not receiving pension,
by gender
 Working retirees rate, by gender
Family and work balance
 2-3 indicators of the time budgets (hours spent by females and males for the
housework and children rearing during workdays and weekends, females and
males leisure time duration)
 Rate of children attending preschool facilities
 Unsatisfied demand for preschool facilities (number of children in the waiting
queue for kindergarten etc)
 Preschool facility fee size, preschool facility fee compensation from the state
 Availability, duration and pay for: maternity leave, child care leave for mother,
father, parents
 Availability of part-time employment, distant work mode, flexible work
schedule and their popularity among females and males
 Availability of programs to establish friendly work climate for parents and
workers with family responsibilities
Social security, medical services, education
 % GDP for the health care, education, social support (in dynamic for the last
5 years)
 Temporary disability allowance size
 Unemployment benefit size
 Average level of state pension benefit for males and females (in the national
currency, dollars, growth rate)
 Taking child rearing into account in length of service for retirement eligibility
 Child benefits by types and size (in the national currency, dollars), compared
to child minimum subsistence level
 Availability of modern obstetric centres
 Any indicators of medical services for women (gynecology, obstetrics) and
children (pediatrics)
 Number of students by type of education and gender (secondary education
(school), secondary professional, tertiary, high) (or number of graduates)
 Rate of persons with certain level of education by gender (by census)
 Rate of children not going to school
Gender-based violence
Number of bullet points on stats on gender-based violence, including:
 Domestic (in the home) gender-based violence
 Trafficking
 Number of refuges
 Legislation and enforcement infrastructure (training for police, lawyers
and judges, refuges and other supports for victims of GBV, including support to
NGOs providing services and advocacy, public information campaigns etc.)
Labour migration information
 Number of labour migrants (females and males), emigrating during a year
 Rate of households with a worker “in the field” (with a labour migrant)
 Funds transferred by the migrants to the Motherland (in the national currency,
dollars, % GDP)
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 Budget revenues from migrants (in the country of residence, in the country of
work)
 Rate of money transfers from migrants in the total income of a household
 Average number of household members dependent on money transfers from
migrant
 Types of work chosen by emigrating females and males (professional
composition as registered, actual occupations)
 Countries where females and males go
 How often, for what time
 Rate of returning migrants, rate of migrants not returning over one year, over
3 years
 Do they form alternative families in the country of work?
 Cases (information) of having a child abroad
 Is migration available for the poorest or it requires funds (what size)?
 What are the abroad earnings spent for?
 Percentage of the earnings sent home
 Challenges existing in the country of work
 What provisions/amendments of the migration law in own country and the
country of work are liked/disliked
 Estimation of illegal migration level
Additional country gender inequality information (based on
qualitative and quantitative sociological studies)
USEFUL WEBSITES BESIDE NATIONAL STATISTICS AGENCIES:
Human development indices (including gender equality and gender empowerment
measure, gender inequality index)
http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/
World Economic Forum and gender gap index
http://www.weforum.org/issues/global-gender-gap
(http://www.weforum.org/pdf/gendergap/report2010.pdf
www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GenderGap_Report_2011.pdf)
World Bank gender statistics
http://data.worldbank.org/
UN gender statistics
http://www.un.org/ru/databases/#stats
 Statistical data of Economic Commission for Europe. Comparison of
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Europe, Northern America and Central Asia
Millennium Development Goals accomplishment indicators
Official data, definitions, methodology and indicator sources to determine the
Goals accomplishment progress
UN data
UN system statistical resources
Population Information System (POPINS)
International, regional and national information about population from various
UN sources
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