“Peru is on track to achieve United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5 (gender equality).”

For Sustainable Development Goal 5 (Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls), the world is off track. On average, half of the key targets for SDG 5 have a weak and insufficient rate of progress, and some indicators show regression. At the current rate, achieving gender equality by 2030 is unlikely in most regions.

The report states that "Despite progress on SDG 5, achieving gender equality for all women and girls remains off track". It notes that globally, "9.2 per cent of women and girls live in extreme poverty (376 million), compared to 8.6 per cent of men and boys" and warns that "If current trends continue, over 351 million women and girls could still live in extreme poverty by 2030". The document frames 2025 as a "pivotal year" but emphasizes that accelerated and comprehensive action is needed in the final five-year stretch before the 2030 deadline to close gender gaps.

The report notes that despite important advances in the regulatory framework and public policies for gender equality, "persistent structural gaps remain" in relation to SDG 5. It highlights that women continue to face high levels of gender-based violence, unequal participation in decision-making, and unequal distribution of unpaid care work, and states that achieving SDG 5 by 2030 will require "accelerating the pace" of implementation and substantially increasing efforts.

UN Women reports that in Peru, 77.8% of legal frameworks that promote, enforce and monitor gender equality are in place, and that as of February 2024, 38.5% of seats in parliament were held by women. It also notes that "work still needs to be done in Peru to achieve gender equality" and that many gender data gaps remain.

The World Bank says Peru has made significant progress in advancing gender equality over the past two decades, but key gender differences persist and require urgent attention, such as quality of employment, unpaid work, and violence. It adds that gender-based violence is widespread in Peru.

In the country profile dashboard for Peru, SDG 5 (Gender equality) is shown with a status of "Significant challenges remain". The trend indicator for SDG 5 is marked as "Stagnating", meaning that Peru is not on track to reach the SDG 5 targets by 2030 under current trajectories.

The SDG 5 overview for the region states: "There has been progress over the last decades, but the world is not on track to achieve gender equality by 2030." It notes that "On average, women in the labor market still earn 23 percent less than men globally and women spend about three times as many hours in unpaid domestic and care work as men" and that sexual violence, exploitation and discrimination in public office remain "huge barriers". It adds that at the current rate, "it will take an estimated 300 years to end child marriage" and over a century for equal representation in leadership positions, underscoring that progress is far too slow for SDG 5.

The platform records that in Latin America and the Caribbean, 32 countries presented 70 VNRs between 2016 and 2025. In the country table, Peru is listed among the countries presenting VNRs, with an entry for 2024 indicating participation in the 2024 HLPF. However, the regional overview explains that many countries, including Peru, still face significant challenges in areas such as gender equality and women’s empowerment, which require "deep transformations" to achieve the SDGs by 2030.

“We are not on track. The distance to equal is long. And the time is short. Goal 5: To achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls by 2030 is one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).” The article explains that based on UN Women and UN DESA’s assessments, the world is not on track to achieve SDG 5 by 2030, noting that more than a quarter of SDG 5 indicators are far or very far from their targets and that no country has reached equality on unpaid care and domestic work.

The synthesis of 2024 VNRs notes that many reporting countries, including Peru, have put in place gender equality laws and institutions and report progress on some SDG 5 indicators. At the same time, the report stresses that "none of the countries presenting in 2024 are on track to fully achieve SDG 5 by 2030" and underlines persistent challenges such as gender-based violence, discriminatory social norms, and women’s under‑representation in decision‑making.

The Gender Inequality Index (GII) reflects gender-based disadvantage in three dimensions—reproductive health, empowerment and the labour market—for as many countries as data of reasonable quality allow… A low GII value indicates low inequality between women and men and thus higher achievement in the three dimensions. Many countries, particularly in Latin America, including Peru, still exhibit medium to high levels of gender inequality, especially in labour market participation and political representation.

The UN’s SDG 5 overview states that the world is off track to achieve gender equality by 2030. It notes: "At the current rate, it will take nearly 300 years to end child marriage, 286 years to remove discriminatory laws and close gaps in legal protections, 140 years for women to be represented equally in positions of power and leadership in the workplace, and at least 40 years to achieve equal representation in national parliaments." While this is a global assessment rather than country-specific, it frames SDG 5 as generally not on track.

In its SDG 5 monitoring for the EU, Eurostat concludes that while there has been "strong progress" in some areas, "Women are still less likely to be employed than men, and the EU is not on track to halving its gender employment gap by 2030." It further notes that in 2022, "women’s gross hourly earnings in the EU were still on average 12.7 % below those of men" and that a clear gap in leadership positions remains. The analysis illustrates that even in relatively advanced contexts, current trajectories are insufficient to fully meet SDG 5 targets by 2030.

The December 2025 country report for Peru highlights: "On 24 December, Congress promulgated Law No. 32535 on Equal Opportunities between Women and Men". It explains that "The law removes the concepts of 'gender’, 'gender equality’, 'gender-based violence’ and 'gender perspective' from government policies and procedures, replacing them with the notion of ‘equal opportunities between women and men’." Critics, including feminist organizations, are quoted as condemning the law "as a significant setback and inconsistent with international human rights standards and obligations." This suggests a weakening of explicit gender-equality frameworks rather than consolidation of SDG 5 commitments.

The 2024 SDG Gender Index benchmarks gender equality across 139 countries and 56 issues across 14 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. It states: "NO COUNTRY IS ON TRACK TO ACHIEVE GENDER EQUALITY BY 2030."

The country profile for Peru presents SDG 5: Gender equality indicators and trend data rather than declaring Peru on track. It provides the underlying metrics used to assess progress on gender equality targets, including legal frameworks, violence against women, and unpaid care work. The page is relevant because it documents the indicator-based monitoring framework used to judge whether a country is on track.

UNDP's integrated SDG insights page indicates that Peru still faces gaps and needs improved outcomes in multiple development areas. The material is relevant to SDG progress assessment, but the snippet available here does not explicitly say Peru is on track for Goal 5.

In 2025, Peru scored 0.74 in the gender gap index, which shows a gender gap of approximately 26 percent (women are 26 percent less likely than men to have equal opportunities). In 2024, Peru scored 0.76 in the gender gap index, which shows a gender gap of approximately 24 percent and a slight increase in comparison to the 2022 score. Moreover, the gender gap in the area of political empowerment in Peru amounted to 38 percent.

In its discussion of SDG 5, the U.S. State Department remarks that the 2022 High-Level Political Forum "served as a reminder of the world’s lack of progress on addressing sexual and gender-based violence and the urgent need for accelerating the implementation of SDG 5." The piece underscores that, globally, countries are not on track to achieve SDG 5 by 2030 and calls for renewed commitments, without singling out Peru as an exception that is on track.

Our World in Data explains that SDG 5 requires legal frameworks, measurement of violence against women, unpaid care work, and representation indicators. The page is useful for understanding the benchmark, but it does not claim Peru is on track to meet it.

Discussing how countries use VNRs, OPHI notes that many, including Peru, report on multidimensional poverty and gender‑related deprivations in their voluntary national reviews. The highlights indicate that while VNRs showcase policies aimed at reducing gender gaps, they also reveal that "women and girls continue to experience overlapping disadvantages" and that progress on gender equality is uneven, particularly for rural and indigenous populations.

The World Economic Forum compiles and releases the Global Gender Gap Index every year… In the 2025 rankings, Peru’s GGGI Global Equality Score is 0.735. This places Peru in the middle of the global distribution, with a substantial share of the gender gap still open compared with leading countries such as Iceland (0.926) and Finland (0.879).

The document on SDG progress in Peru and Latin America notes that some SDG targets in Peru were met early, such as reductions in childhood and neonatal mortality, and that childbirth services and primary education are virtually universal. It acknowledges advances in social indicators but also points to remaining inequalities and gaps in human capital, economic opportunities and environmental policies. While it recognizes improvements relevant to women and children, it does not claim that Peru is on track to fully achieve SDG 5 on gender equality by 2030.

Aggregated results from recent Sustainable Development Reports (2022–2025) and regional UN assessments consistently classify Peru’s SDG 5 status as one where "significant challenges remain" and trends are described as "stagnating" or only "moderately improving". These classifications mean that, under current policies and observed trends, Peru is not considered on track to meet all SDG 5 targets by 2030, even though it may outperform some neighbouring countries in selected gender indicators.