Dataset · UNDP Human Development Report Office
Gender Development Index
34 years, 1990–2023 · 184 countries
The Gender Development Index is women’s Human Development Index divided by men’s, so it reads as a proportion rather than a level: 1.000 means the two are equal, and 0.900 means women’s HDI is 90% of men’s. UNDP publishes it for every year back to 1990.
This site holds every year from 1990 to 2023, read from UNDP Human Development Report Office’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Gender Development Index · the file
- Newest
- Gender Development Index, 2023
- Held
- 34 years · 4,931 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0 IGO
0134 years
Every year
Every year comes from UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender Development Index, 2023Newest | 184 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Gender Development Index, 2022 | 184 | +1 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Gender Development Index, 2021 | 183 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Gender Development Index, 2020 | 183 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Gender Development Index, 2019 | 183 | +1 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Gender Development Index, 2018 | 182 | +4 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Gender Development Index, 2017 | 178 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Gender Development Index, 2016 | 178 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Gender Development Index, 2015 | 178 | +4 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Gender Development Index, 2014 | 174 | +1 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Gender Development Index, 2013 | 173 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Gender Development Index, 2012 | 173 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
Show all 34 years
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: gender-development-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
023 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2023 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 184 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 184 | 0 | |
Gender Development Index (1.000 = parity)gdi_scoreHeadline | The headline figure: Gender Development Index (1.000 = parity). | Number · up to 3 decimals | 0.407 Yemen1.038 Ukrainemiddle 0.971 | 111 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. 1 is parity; further away in either direction is worse.
03184 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 44 | 44 | 44 | 46 | 46 | 46 | 48 | 49 | 49 | 49 | 50 | 50 |
| Americas | 29 | 29 | 29 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 |
| Asia | 46 | 46 | 46 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 |
| Europe | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 |
| Oceania | 13 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 |
| All | 173 | 173 | 174 | 178 | 178 | 178 | 182 | 183 | 183 | 183 | 184 | 184 |
The newest 12 of 34 years.
Who joined and who left
+ Somalia
+ Guinea
+ Antigua and Barbuda
+ Guinea-Bissau
+ Guyana
+ Chad
+ Djibouti
+ Grenada
+ Myanmar
+ Eswatini
+ Micronesia
+ Marshall Islands
+ Bhutan
+ Côte d’Ivoire
+ Ecuador
+ Gambia
+ Libya
+ Palau
+ Solomon Islands
+ Seychelles
+ Cabo Verde
+ Timor-LesteNot in this dataset · 41 places this site covers
UNDP Human Development Report Office gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
American Samoa
Andorra
Anguilla
Aruba
Bermuda
British Virgin Islands
Cayman Islands
Central African RepublicChannel Islands
Cook Islands
Curaçao
Dominica
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Faroe Islands
French Polynesia
Gibraltar
Greenland
Guam
Isle of Man
Kosovo
Macau
Monaco
Montserrat
New Caledonia
Niue
North KoreaNorthern Cyprus
Northern Mariana Islands
Puerto Rico
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Martin
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Sint MaartenSomaliland
South Sudan
Taiwan
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Islands
United States Virgin Islands
Vatican City04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
UNDP Human Development Report Office
2 · Their file
Gender Development Index 2023
3 · Read by this site
September 6, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
34 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as gender-development-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 3 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
From the 2025 Human Development Report, which recalculates every year at once on one current method.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 5, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.
A credit line
Source: UNDP Human Development Report Office, Gender Development Index, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
UNDP Human Development Report Office. Gender Development Index, 1990–2023 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gender-development
The publisher’s own citation: UNDP. Human Development Report 2025. New York: United Nations Development Programme.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Questions
Gender Development Index: questions and answers
What is the Gender Development Index?
The Gender Development Index is women’s Human Development Index divided by men’s, so it reads as a proportion rather than a level: 1.000 means the two are equal, and 0.900 means women’s HDI is 90% of men’s. UNDP publishes it for every year back to 1990.
Which years of the Gender Development Index can I download?
All 34, from 1990 to 2023, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does UNDP Human Development Report Office rank countries on it?
No. UNDP Human Development Report Office publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 3.0 IGO, with credit to UNDP Human Development Report Office. The licence text is linked on this page.