Data for 1994

Gender Development Index, 1994

Name: Gender Development Index, 1994
Creator: UNDP Human Development Report Office
License: https://hdr.undp.org/copyright-and-terms-use

1994, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Gender Development Index, 1994 covers 80 countries. Uruguay is highest, at 1.025; Yemen is lowest, at 0.549. The middle country reads 0.946. Against 1993, 67 values changed (43 up, 24 down), 3 countries joined.

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Gender Development Index · Data for 1994

HighestUruguay

1.025

LowestYemen

0.549

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

80countries
1measure
1994the year it describes
64distinct values3 decimals, as published
Sep 6, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY 3.0 IGOlicence

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Gender Development Index, 1994, as published. UNDP Human Development Report Office ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

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Gender Development Index, 1994: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	1.000
2	Bahamas`BHS`Caribbean	1.001
3	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	1.003
4	Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	0.997
5	United States`USA`Northern America	0.991
6	Colombia`COL`South America	0.990
7	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	0.988
8	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	0.986
=9	Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	0.985
=9	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	0.985
11	France`FRA`Western Europe	0.984
=12	Argentina`ARG`South America	0.980
=12	Canada`CAN`Northern America	0.980
=14	Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	0.978
=14	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	0.978
=14	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	0.978
17	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	0.977
18	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	1.024
19	Uruguay`URY`South America	1.025
20	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	0.974
=21	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	0.973
=21	South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	0.973
23	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	0.971
=24	Brunei`BRN`South-eastern Asia	0.970
=24	New Zealand`NZL`Australia and New Zealand	0.970
=24	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	0.970
27	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	0.967
28	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	0.966
=29	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	0.964
=29	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	0.964
=31	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	0.961
=31	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	0.961
33	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	0.960
34	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	0.953
=35	Austria`AUT`Western Europe	0.951
=35	Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia	0.951
37	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	0.950
38	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	0.948
=39	Japan`JPN`Eastern Asia	0.946
=39	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	0.946
=41	Germany`DEU`Western Europe	0.945
=41	Singapore`SGP`South-eastern Asia	0.945
43	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	0.943
44	Trinidad and Tobago`TTO`Caribbean	0.942
45	Chile`CHL`South America	0.938
=46	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	0.937
=46	Paraguay`PRY`South America	0.937
48	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	0.934
49	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	0.931
=50	Bahrain`BHR`Western Asia	0.930
=50	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	0.930
=52	Hong Kong`HKG`Eastern Asia	0.928
=52	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	0.928
=54	Belize`BLZ`Central America	0.925
=54	Israel`ISR`Western Asia	0.925
56	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	0.924
57	China`CHN`Eastern Asia	0.912
58	Mexico`MEX`Central America	0.909
59	Honduras`HND`Central America	0.902
60	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	0.883
61	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	0.881
62	Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	0.879
63	Bolivia`BOL`South America	0.876
64	Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	0.847
65	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	0.841
66	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	0.832
67	Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	0.829
68	Saudi Arabia`SAU`Western Asia	0.827
69	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	0.826
70	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	0.823
71	Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	0.808
72	Syria`SYR`Western Asia	0.798
73	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	0.794
74	Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	0.789
75	Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	0.763
76	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	0.738
77	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	0.729
78	India`IND`Southern Asia	0.723
79	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	0.602
80	Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	0.549

02In 1994

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

19Uruguay1.025
18Estonia1.024
3Finland1.003
2Bahamas1.001
1Sweden1.000

Lowest

80Yemen0.549
79Pakistan0.602
78India0.723
77Morocco0.729
76Nepal0.738

1 is parity; further away in either direction is worse. The middle country reads 0.946. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031993 → 1994

Since 1993

What changed between 1993 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+3 / −0countries joined / left
67values changed, of 77 in both
43 · 24rose · fell
10unchanged

Rose most

Dominican Republic0.887 → 0.930+0.043
Botswana0.946 → 0.964+0.018
Sri Lanka0.934 → 0.951+0.017
Nepal0.724 → 0.738+0.014
Estonia1.012 → 1.024+0.012

Fell most

Colombia1.008 → 0.990−0.018
Albania0.937 → 0.931−0.006
Netherlands0.951 → 0.946−0.005
Greece0.942 → 0.937−0.005
Burundi0.833 → 0.829−0.004

+ Tunisia

+ Yemen

+ Zimbabwe

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

One year of the 2025 release
Every year in this series comes from UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1994.
64 distinct values among 80
Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 3 countries share 0.978. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
The position is ours
UNDP Human Development Report Office publishes values only; the order is this site’s.
Nothing missing
Every one of the 80 countries has every column.

05The files

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UNDP Human Development Report Office (1994). Gender Development Index, 1994 [data set], describing 1994. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gender-development/1994

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