Data for 2002

Gender Development Index, 2002

Name: Gender Development Index, 2002
Creator: UNDP Human Development Report Office
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2002, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Gender Development Index, 2002 covers 139 countries. 2 countries share the highest reading, 1.039; Yemen is lowest, at 0.621. The middle country reads 0.946. Against 2001, 122 values changed (76 up, 46 down), the same countries are covered.

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Gender Development Index · Data for 2002

Highest2 countries share it

1.039

LowestYemen

0.621

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

139countries
1measure
2002the year it describes
95distinct 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, 2002, 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, 2002: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
=1	Bahamas`BHS`Caribbean	1.001
=1	Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	1.001
3	Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	1.002
=4	Argentina`ARG`South America	0.996
=4	Colombia`COL`South America	0.996
=4	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	0.996
=7	Brazil`BRA`South America	0.995
=7	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	0.995
9	Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	0.994
=10	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	0.993
=10	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	0.993
=12	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	1.008
=12	Uruguay`URY`South America	1.008
14	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	0.990
=15	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	0.989
=15	United States`USA`Northern America	0.989
=17	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	0.988
=17	Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	0.988
19	San Marino`SMR`Southern Europe	1.013
=20	Brunei`BRN`South-eastern Asia	0.987
=20	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	0.987
=20	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	0.987
23	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	1.015
24	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	0.985
=25	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	0.983
=25	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	0.983
=27	France`FRA`Western Europe	0.982
=27	Kuwait`KWT`Western Asia	0.982
=27	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	1.018
30	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	0.981
31	Canada`CAN`Northern America	0.979
32	Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	0.978
=33	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	0.976
=33	Venezuela`VEN`South America	0.976
35	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	1.025
36	New Zealand`NZL`Australia and New Zealand	0.975
=37	Panama`PAN`Central America	0.973
=37	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	0.973
=39	South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	0.972
=39	Tonga`TON`Polynesia	0.972
41	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	0.971
42	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	0.969
=43	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	0.968
=43	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	0.968
=43	United Arab Emirates`ARE`Western Asia	0.968
46	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	0.967
47	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	0.966
=48	Liechtenstein`LIE`Western Europe	0.964
=48	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	1.036
50	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	0.963
=51	Austria`AUT`Western Europe	0.962
=51	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	0.962
=51	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	0.962
=51	Singapore`SGP`South-eastern Asia	0.962
=51	Trinidad and Tobago`TTO`Caribbean	0.962
=56	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	1.039
=56	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	1.039
58	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	0.961
=59	Japan`JPN`Eastern Asia	0.960
=59	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	0.960
=61	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	0.959
=61	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	0.959
63	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	0.958
=64	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	0.957
=64	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	0.957
=66	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	0.951
=66	Germany`DEU`Western Europe	0.951
=66	Hong Kong`HKG`Eastern Asia	0.951
=66	Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia	0.951
=70	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	0.946
=70	Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	0.946
72	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	0.945
73	Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	0.944
74	Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	0.943
=75	Israel`ISR`Western Asia	0.942
=75	Paraguay`PRY`South America	0.942
=75	Peru`PER`South America	0.942
78	Chile`CHL`South America	0.940
=79	Bahrain`BHR`Western Asia	0.936
=79	Belize`BLZ`Central America	0.936
81	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	0.935
82	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	0.934
83	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	0.932
84	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	0.931
=85	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	0.930
=85	Honduras`HND`Central America	0.930
87	Samoa`WSM`Polynesia	0.929
88	Mexico`MEX`Central America	0.927
=89	China`CHN`Eastern Asia	0.926
=89	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	0.926
=91	Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	0.922
=91	Fiji`FJI`Melanesia	0.922
=91	Maldives`MDV`Southern Asia	0.922
94	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	0.921
95	Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	0.920
=96	Bolivia`BOL`South America	0.915
=96	Tuvalu`TUV`Polynesia	0.915
98	Guatemala`GTM`Central America	0.914
99	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	0.911
100	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	0.902
101	Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	0.901
102	Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	0.899
103	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	0.880
104	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	0.877
105	Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	0.873
106	Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	0.870
107	Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	0.869
108	Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	0.868
=109	Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	0.867
=109	Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	0.867
111	Oman`OMN`Western Asia	0.866
=112	Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	0.856
=112	Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	0.856
114	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	0.852
=115	Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	0.851
=115	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	0.851
=117	Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	0.849
=117	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	0.849
=119	Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	0.845
=119	Saudi Arabia`SAU`Western Asia	0.845
121	Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	0.841
122	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	0.839
123	Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	0.838
124	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	0.834
125	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	0.832
=126	Comoros`COM`Eastern Africa	0.830
=126	Syria`SYR`Western Asia	0.830
=128	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	0.820
=128	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	0.820
130	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	0.796
131	Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	0.795
132	Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	0.793
133	India`IND`Southern Asia	0.787
134	Benin`BEN`Western Africa	0.786
135	Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	0.750
136	Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	0.730
137	Niger`NER`Western Africa	0.671
138	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	0.631
139	Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	0.621

02In 2002

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

56Estoniashared1.039
56Latviashared1.039
48Mongolia1.036
35Belarus1.025
27Lithuania1.018

Lowest

139Yemen0.621
138Pakistan0.631
137Niger0.671
136Iraq0.730
135Ethiopia0.750

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

032001 → 2002

Since 2001

What changed between 2001 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+0 / −0countries joined / left
122values changed, of 139 in both
76 · 46rose · fell
17unchanged

Rose most

Colombia0.976 → 0.996+0.020
Guatemala0.895 → 0.914+0.019
Saint Lucia0.985 → 1.002+0.017
Nepal0.817 → 0.832+0.015
Mongolia1.022 → 1.036+0.014

Fell most

Uganda0.880 → 0.856−0.024
Pakistan0.654 → 0.631−0.023
Bangladesh0.839 → 0.820−0.019
Philippines0.986 → 0.967−0.019
Cameroon0.867 → 0.849−0.018

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 2002.
95 distinct values among 139
Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 5 countries share 0.962. 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 139 countries has every column.

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UNDP Human Development Report Office (2002). Gender Development Index, 2002 [data set], describing 2002. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gender-development/2002

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