Iceland has the smallest gender gap in the world, making it one of the best countries to be a woman, according to the global gender gap index.

Devised by the World Economic Forum (WEF) and launched in 2006, the index has become widely used to judge and compare women's empowerment around the world.

For International Women’s Day, The Telegraph has built an interactive tool to explore how the UK compares to the rest of world. You can view it below.

It ranks 149 countries according to the progress they have made towards gender parity, taking into account four key pillars of women’s lives: political participation; economic advancement; education and health.

Progress is being made but at current rates it will another 108 years to close the divide between men and women globally.

The UK is ranked 15th - ahead of Canada and the United States, but behind Germany and France. Although the UK's gender gap has narrowed, it's global position has slipped since 2006 when it ranked ninth.

We fall down further, to 52nd, when looking purely at the workplace, with an economic gender gap of 30 per cent - well behind countries such as the United States and Australia.