3.1. WiD 2019 Index

The participation of women in the digitalisation of the Basque society and economy is expressed through the WiD index. According to it, the Basque Country occupies the eighth place in the ranking, with a value equal to 56.60%, above the EU-28 average (50.04%).

Graph 14: Finland (71.87%), Sweden (69.37%), Luxembourg (66.51%), Denmark (65.38%), the United Kingdom (64.92%), the Netherlands (62.20%) and Estonia (56.96%) are the leaders. The Basque Country follows Estonia and is ahead of France (54.72%), in the group of countries that is just behind the leaders.