Data for 1997

Gender Development Index, 1997

Name: Gender Development Index, 1997
Creator: UNDP Human Development Report Office
License: https://hdr.undp.org/copyright-and-terms-use

1997, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Gender Development Index, 1997 covers 107 countries. Belarus is highest, at 1.030; Yemen is lowest, at 0.598. The middle country reads 0.952. Against 1996, 96 values changed (65 up, 31 down), the same countries are covered.

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Gender Development Index · Data for 1997

HighestBelarus

1.030

LowestYemen

0.598

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

107countries
1measure
1997the 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, 1997, 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, 1997: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
=1	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	1.002
=1	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	0.998
=1	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	1.002
4	Bahamas`BHS`Caribbean	1.005
5	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	0.994
=6	Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	0.991
=6	United States`USA`Northern America	0.991
=8	Argentina`ARG`South America	0.988
=8	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	0.988
=10	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	0.984
=10	Colombia`COL`South America	0.984
=10	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	1.016
13	Uruguay`URY`South America	1.017
=14	France`FRA`Western Europe	0.983
=14	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	0.983
16	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	0.982
=17	Brunei`BRN`South-eastern Asia	0.981
=17	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	0.981
=17	Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	0.981
=20	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	0.980
=20	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	0.980
=22	New Zealand`NZL`Australia and New Zealand	0.978
=22	Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	0.978
24	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	1.023
=25	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	0.977
=25	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	0.977
=27	Canada`CAN`Northern America	0.976
=27	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	1.024
=29	Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	0.974
=29	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	1.026
=29	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	0.974
=29	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	0.974
=33	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	0.973
=33	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	0.973
=35	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	0.971
=35	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	0.971
37	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	1.030
38	United Arab Emirates`ARE`Western Asia	0.968
=39	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	0.967
=39	Panama`PAN`Central America	0.967
=41	Tonga`TON`Polynesia	0.966
=41	Venezuela`VEN`South America	0.966
=43	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	0.965
=43	Kuwait`KWT`Western Asia	0.965
45	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	0.964
46	South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	0.960
47	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	0.959
=48	Singapore`SGP`South-eastern Asia	0.958
=48	Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia	0.958
=50	Austria`AUT`Western Europe	0.956
=50	Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	0.956
52	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	0.955
53	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	0.953
54	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	0.952
55	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	0.950
56	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	0.949
=57	Japan`JPN`Eastern Asia	0.948
=57	Trinidad and Tobago`TTO`Caribbean	0.948
59	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	0.947
=60	Germany`DEU`Western Europe	0.946
=60	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	0.946
62	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	0.945
63	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	0.944
64	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	0.942
=65	Chile`CHL`South America	0.940
=65	Israel`ISR`Western Asia	0.940
=67	Hong Kong`HKG`Eastern Asia	0.936
=67	Paraguay`PRY`South America	0.936
69	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	0.935
70	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	0.933
=71	Belize`BLZ`Central America	0.932
=71	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	0.932
=73	Honduras`HND`Central America	0.931
=73	Samoa`WSM`Polynesia	0.931
75	Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	0.927
=76	China`CHN`Eastern Asia	0.922
=76	Mexico`MEX`Central America	0.922
78	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	0.918
79	Bahrain`BHR`Western Asia	0.913
80	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	0.904
81	Bolivia`BOL`South America	0.901
82	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	0.899
83	Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	0.889
84	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	0.883
85	Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	0.874
86	Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	0.860
87	Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	0.859
88	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	0.852
89	Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	0.840
90	Saudi Arabia`SAU`Western Asia	0.836
91	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	0.832
=92	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	0.830
=92	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	0.830
94	Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	0.826
95	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	0.822
96	Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	0.818
97	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	0.810
98	Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	0.794
99	Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	0.792
100	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	0.778
101	Syria`SYR`Western Asia	0.770
102	Benin`BEN`Western Africa	0.767
103	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	0.761
104	India`IND`Southern Asia	0.740
105	Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	0.696
106	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	0.621
107	Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	0.598

02In 1997

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

37Belarus1.030
29Lesotho1.026
27Estonia1.024
24Latvia1.023
13Uruguay1.017

Lowest

107Yemen0.598
106Pakistan0.621
105Iraq0.696
104India0.740
103Morocco0.761

1 is parity; further away in either direction is worse. The middle country reads 0.952. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031996 → 1997

Since 1996

What changed between 1996 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+0 / −0countries joined / left
96values changed, of 107 in both
65 · 31rose · fell
11unchanged

Rose most

Lesotho0.951 → 1.026+0.075
Egypt0.812 → 0.852+0.040
Sri Lanka0.937 → 0.958+0.021
Qatar0.963 → 0.981+0.018
Pakistan0.605 → 0.621+0.016

Fell most

Syria0.792 → 0.770−0.022
Paraguay0.956 → 0.936−0.020
Zimbabwe0.889 → 0.874−0.015
Latvia1.037 → 1.023−0.014
Armenia0.980 → 0.967−0.013

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

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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 1997.
80 distinct values among 107
Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 3 countries share 0.981. 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 (1997). Gender Development Index, 1997 [data set], describing 1997. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gender-development/1997

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