Data for 1996

Gender Development Index, 1996

Name: Gender Development Index, 1996
Creator: UNDP Human Development Report Office
License: https://hdr.undp.org/copyright-and-terms-use

1996, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Gender Development Index, 1996 covers 107 countries. Belarus is highest, at 1.038; Yemen is lowest, at 0.584. The middle country reads 0.951. Against 1995, 94 values changed (66 up, 28 down), 1 country joined.

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Gender Development Index · Data for 1996

HighestBelarus

1.038

LowestYemen

0.584

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

107countries
1measure
1996the year it describes
80distinct 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, 1996, 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, 1996: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	1.000
=2	Bahamas`BHS`Caribbean	1.004
=2	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	0.996
4	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	1.005
5	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	1.008
6	Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	0.991
7	United States`USA`Northern America	0.990
8	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	0.989
=9	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	0.987
=9	Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	0.987
=11	Argentina`ARG`South America	0.985
=11	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	0.985
=13	France`FRA`Western Europe	0.984
=13	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	1.016
15	Uruguay`URY`South America	1.017
16	Colombia`COL`South America	0.983
17	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	1.018
=18	Canada`CAN`Northern America	0.981
=18	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	0.981
=20	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	0.980
=20	Brunei`BRN`South-eastern Asia	0.980
=22	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	0.979
=22	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	0.979
=24	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	0.977
=24	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	0.977
=26	New Zealand`NZL`Australia and New Zealand	0.975
=26	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	0.975
=28	Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	0.974
=28	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	0.974
=30	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	0.972
=30	South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	0.972
=32	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	0.971
=32	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	0.971
34	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	0.970
35	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	0.969
=36	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	0.967
=36	United Arab Emirates`ARE`Western Asia	0.967
38	Tonga`TON`Polynesia	0.966
=39	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	0.965
=39	Venezuela`VEN`South America	0.965
41	Panama`PAN`Central America	0.964
42	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	1.037
=43	Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	0.963
=43	Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	0.963
=45	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	1.038
=45	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	0.962
47	Paraguay`PRY`South America	0.956
=48	Kuwait`KWT`Western Asia	0.955
=48	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	0.955
=50	Austria`AUT`Western Europe	0.953
=50	Singapore`SGP`South-eastern Asia	0.953
52	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	0.952
=53	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	0.951
=53	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	0.951
=53	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	0.951
=56	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	0.948
=56	Trinidad and Tobago`TTO`Caribbean	0.948
58	Japan`JPN`Eastern Asia	0.947
59	Germany`DEU`Western Europe	0.946
=60	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	0.944
=60	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	0.944
62	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	0.943
63	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	0.942
=64	Chile`CHL`South America	0.941
=64	Israel`ISR`Western Asia	0.941
66	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	0.939
=67	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	0.937
=67	Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia	0.937
=69	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	0.935
=69	Hong Kong`HKG`Eastern Asia	0.935
71	Samoa`WSM`Polynesia	0.932
72	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	0.930
73	Honduras`HND`Central America	0.925
74	Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	0.923
=75	Belize`BLZ`Central America	0.922
=75	Mexico`MEX`Central America	0.922
=77	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	0.920
=77	China`CHN`Eastern Asia	0.920
79	Bahrain`BHR`Western Asia	0.912
80	Bolivia`BOL`South America	0.906
81	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	0.903
82	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	0.899
83	Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	0.889
84	Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	0.881
85	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	0.876
86	Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	0.863
87	Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	0.856
88	Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	0.836
=89	Saudi Arabia`SAU`Western Asia	0.833
=89	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	0.833
91	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	0.827
92	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	0.824
93	Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	0.820
=94	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	0.812
=94	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	0.812
96	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	0.806
97	Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	0.803
=98	Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	0.792
=98	Syria`SYR`Western Asia	0.792
100	Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	0.783
101	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	0.777
102	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	0.766
103	Benin`BEN`Western Africa	0.763
104	India`IND`Southern Asia	0.732
105	Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	0.687
106	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	0.605
107	Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	0.584

02In 1996

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

45Belarus1.038
42Latvia1.037
17Estonia1.018
15Uruguay1.017
13Ukraine1.016

Lowest

107Yemen0.584
106Pakistan0.605
105Iraq0.687
104India0.732
103Benin0.763

1 is parity; further away in either direction is worse. The middle country reads 0.951. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031995 → 1996

Since 1995

What changed between 1995 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+1 / −0countries joined / left
94values changed, of 106 in both
66 · 28rose · fell
12unchanged

Rose most

Benin0.736 → 0.763+0.027
Nepal0.753 → 0.777+0.024
Iraq0.667 → 0.687+0.020
Belarus1.021 → 1.038+0.017
Yemen0.567 → 0.584+0.017

Fell most

Egypt0.835 → 0.812−0.023
Syria0.812 → 0.792−0.020
Estonia1.029 → 1.018−0.011
Saint Lucia0.997 → 0.987−0.010
Morocco0.775 → 0.766−0.009

+ Latvia

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 1996.
80 distinct values among 107
Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 3 countries share 0.951. 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 107 countries has every column.

05The files

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UNDP Human Development Report Office (1996). Gender Development Index, 1996 [data set], describing 1996. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gender-development/1996

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