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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.

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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.

1990bar height: countries covered, up to 1722023
Every year of Gender Inequality Index held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Gender Inequality Index, 2023Newest172±0September 6, 2026CSV
Gender Inequality Index, 2022172+1September 6, 2026CSV
Gender Inequality Index, 2021171+2September 6, 2026CSV
Gender Inequality Index, 2020169±0September 6, 2026CSV
Gender Inequality Index, 2019169+2September 6, 2026CSV
Gender Inequality Index, 2018167+4September 6, 2026CSV
Gender Inequality Index, 2017163+1September 6, 2026CSV
Gender Inequality Index, 2016162+2September 6, 2026CSV
Gender Inequality Index, 2015160+3September 6, 2026CSV
Gender Inequality Index, 2014157+2September 6, 2026CSV
Gender Inequality Index, 2013155+1September 6, 2026CSV
Gender Inequality Index, 2012154±0September 6, 2026CSV
Show all 34 years
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Gender Inequality Index, 2011154±0September 6, 2026CSV
Gender Inequality Index, 2010154+6September 6, 2026CSV
Gender Inequality Index, 2009148±0September 6, 2026CSV
Gender Inequality Index, 2008148+1September 6, 2026CSV
Gender Inequality Index, 2007147+1September 6, 2026CSV
Gender Inequality Index, 2006146+3September 6, 2026CSV
Gender Inequality Index, 2005143+5September 6, 2026CSV
Gender Inequality Index, 2004138+4September 6, 2026CSV
Gender Inequality Index, 2003134+4September 6, 2026CSV
Gender Inequality Index, 2002130+2September 6, 2026CSV
Gender Inequality Index, 2001128+3September 6, 2026CSV
Gender Inequality Index, 2000125+13September 6, 2026CSV
Gender Inequality Index, 1999112+5September 6, 2026CSV
Gender Inequality Index, 1998107+5September 6, 2026CSV
Gender Inequality Index, 1997102+1September 6, 2026CSV
Gender Inequality Index, 1996101±0September 6, 2026CSV
Gender Inequality Index, 1995101+14September 6, 2026CSV
Gender Inequality Index, 199487+3September 6, 2026CSV
Gender Inequality Index, 199384+4September 6, 2026CSV
Gender Inequality Index, 199280±0September 6, 2026CSV
Gender Inequality Index, 199180±0September 6, 2026CSV
Gender Inequality Index, 199080—September 6, 2026CSV

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.

Every column in the newest file of Gender Inequality Index: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2023DistinctEmptySpread
Global Rankglobal_rankPublisher’s rankUNDP Human Development Report Office’s own rank, exactly as printed.Number · whole numbers1Denmark172Yemenmiddle 871530
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1720
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1720
Gender Inequality Index (0 best – 1 worst)gii_scoreHeadlineThe headline figure: GII (0 = full equality, 1 = maximum inequality).Number · up to 3 decimals0.003Denmark0.838Yemenmiddle 0.3521530

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.

All regions
Countries in each year of Gender Inequality Index, by continent.
201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023
Africa404041434344464747484949
Americas292929292929313131323232
Asia424243444545454545454545
Europe373737373838383838383838
Oceania677777788888
All154155157160162163167169169171172172

The newest 12 of 34 years.

Who joined and who left

  • 2022
    + Somalia
  • 2021
    + Antigua and Barbuda+ Madagascar
  • 2019
    + Guinea+ Samoa
  • 2018
    + Guinea-Bissau+ Grenada+ Guyana+ Chad
  • 2017
    + Djibouti
  • 2016
    + Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Brunei
  • 2015
    + Cabo Verde+ Myanmar+ Eswatini
  • 2014
    + Comoros+ Yemen

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method
  1. 1 · Publisher

    UNDP Human Development Report Office

  2. 2 · Their file

    Gender Inequality Index 2023

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 6, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
  4. 4 · Stored as

    34 files, one per year

    Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as gender-inequality-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
  5. 5 · 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.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked August 29, 2026

CC BY 3.0 IGO

  • 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.

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