Gender Development Index 1996

Report year 1996·Data year 1996

Gender Development Index (1.000 = parity)·1.000 is parity — further away is worse, either way·Published by UNDP Human Development Report Office

34 reference years (1990–2023), covering up to 184 countries. The GDI is the ratio of women’s Human Development Index to men’s, so it reads as a proportion rather than a level: 1.000 means the two are equal, 0.900 means women’s HDI is 90% of men’s. ⚠ IT IS THE ONLY INDICATOR HERE THAT IS NOT DIRECTIONAL, and that is why the site gained a third "direction" value for it. A country can miss parity from EITHER side - 29 of the 184 in 2023 sit above 1.000, where women out-score men - so ranking it as “higher is better” would put those countries at the top and call them the most equal. Rows are ordered by distance from 1.000 instead, and percentiles are computed the same way. ⚠ These are not 34 published reports - the 2025 report recalculates every year at once. ⚠ ⚠ UNDP publishes no GDI rank. A POSITION is derived here (2026-09-10) by DISTANCE FROM PARITY rather than by score: position 1 is the country closest to 1.000, and a country above 1 is placed by how far above it sits exactly as a country below is placed by how far below — 0.990 and 1.010 share a position. Ordering by the raw score instead would have crowned the country where women most out-score men as the world’s most equal, which is the whole reason this indicator has a direction of its own.

Select any column heading to sort by it; select it again to reverse.