Dataset · UNDP Human Development Report Office
Gender Inequality Index
34 years, 1990–2023 · 172 countries
UNDP’s Gender Inequality Index measures the human development a country loses to the gap between women and men, across reproductive health, empowerment and the labour market. It runs from 0, full equality, to 1, maximum inequality — so here, lower is better.
This site holds every year from 1990 to 2023, read from UNDP Human Development Report Office’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Gender Inequality Index · the file
- Newest
- Gender Inequality Index, 2023
- Held
- 34 years · 4,600 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0 IGO
0134 years
Every year
Every year comes from UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender Inequality Index, 2023Newest | 172 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Gender Inequality Index, 2022 | 172 | +1 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Gender Inequality Index, 2021 | 171 | +2 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Gender Inequality Index, 2020 | 169 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Gender Inequality Index, 2019 | 169 | +2 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Gender Inequality Index, 2018 | 167 | +4 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Gender Inequality Index, 2017 | 163 | +1 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Gender Inequality Index, 2016 | 162 | +2 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Gender Inequality Index, 2015 | 160 | +3 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Gender Inequality Index, 2014 | 157 | +2 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Gender Inequality Index, 2013 | 155 | +1 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Gender Inequality Index, 2012 | 154 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
Show all 34 years
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: gender-inequality-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
024 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2023 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Global Rankglobal_rankPublisher’s rank | UNDP Human Development Report Office’s own rank, exactly as printed. | Number · whole numbers | 1 | 153 | 0 | |
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 172 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 172 | 0 | |
Gender Inequality Index (0 best – 1 worst)gii_scoreHeadline | The headline figure: GII (0 = full equality, 1 = maximum inequality). | Number · up to 3 decimals | 0.003 | 153 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.
03172 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 40 | 40 | 41 | 43 | 43 | 44 | 46 | 47 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 49 |
| Americas | 29 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 31 | 31 | 31 | 32 | 32 | 32 |
| Asia | 42 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 |
| Europe | 37 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 |
| Oceania | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| All | 154 | 155 | 157 | 160 | 162 | 163 | 167 | 169 | 169 | 171 | 172 | 172 |
The newest 12 of 34 years.
Who joined and who left
Not in this dataset · 53 places this site covers
UNDP Human Development Report Office gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
UNDP Human Development Report Office
2 · Their file
Gender Inequality Index 2023
3 · Read by this site
September 6, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
34 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as gender-inequality-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 3 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
From the 2025 Human Development Report, which recalculates every year on one current method. UNDP states an official rank for 2023 only; the other 33 years are ordered here by score, after that ordering was verified against all 172 of UNDP’s own 2023 ranks.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked August 29, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.
A credit line
Source: UNDP Human Development Report Office, Gender Inequality Index, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
UNDP Human Development Report Office. Gender Inequality Index, 1990–2023 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gender-inequality
The publisher’s own citation: UNDP. Human Development Report. New York: United Nations Development Programme.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Questions
Gender Inequality Index: questions and answers
What is the Gender Inequality Index?
UNDP’s Gender Inequality Index measures the human development a country loses to the gap between women and men, across reproductive health, empowerment and the labour market. It runs from 0, full equality, to 1, maximum inequality — so here, lower is better.
Which years of the Gender Inequality Index can I download?
All 34, from 1990 to 2023, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does UNDP Human Development Report Office rank countries on it?
Yes. The rank in these files is UNDP Human Development Report Office’s own, exactly as printed.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 3.0 IGO, with credit to UNDP Human Development Report Office. The licence text is linked on this page.