Dataset · UNDP Human Development Report Office
Gender Social Norms Index
Gender Social Norms Index, 2023 compilation · 91 countries · 7 measures
The Gender Social Norms Index is the share of people who hold at least one of seven biases against gender equality, across political, educational, economic and physical-integrity dimensions. It is the only measure on this site that asks what people BELIEVE rather than what their country does or achieves.
This site holds one edition, Gender Social Norms Index, 2023 compilation, read from UNDP Human Development Report Office’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Gender Social Norms Index · the file
- Newest
- Gender Social Norms Index, 2023 compilation
- Held
- 1 edition · 91 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0 IGO
01One edition
Every edition
Newest first. Each opens the full table for that edition, and each downloads as a CSV.
| Edition | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender Social Norms Index, 2023 compilation | 91 | — | September 10, 2026 | CSV |
Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: gender-social-norms-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
0210 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.
People with at least one bias (%)is built fromPeople with at least two biases (%)Political bias (%)Educational bias (%)Economic bias (%)Physical integrity bias (%)
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2023 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 91 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 91 | 0 | |
People with at least one bias (%)gsni_scoreHeadline | The headline figure: People with at least one bias against gender equality (%). | Number · up to 15 decimals | 27.385 | 91 | 0 | |
People with at least two biases (%)gsni2_scorePart of the headline | Share of people holding at least two of the seven biases against gender equality, in %. | Number · up to 15 decimals | 8.67 | 91 | 0 | |
People with no bias (%)no_biasMeasure | Share of people holding none of the seven biases against gender equality, in %. | Number · up to 17 decimals | 0.083 | 91 | 0 | |
Political bias (%)political_biasPart of the headline | Share of people with at least one political bias, such as believing men make better political leaders than women, in %. | Number · up to 15 decimals | 13.185 | 91 | 0 | |
Educational bias (%)educational_biasPart of the headline | Share of people who believe university is more important for men than for women, in %. | Number · up to 16 decimals | 2.596 | 91 | 0 | |
Economic bias (%)economic_biasPart of the headline | Share of people believing men have more right to a job, or make better business executives, than women, in %. | Number · up to 15 decimals | 7.96 | 91 | 0 | |
Physical integrity bias (%)physical_integrity_biasPart of the headline | Share of people with at least one bias on physical integrity, proxies for views on intimate partner violence and reproductive rights, in %. | Number · up to 15 decimals | 8.232 | 91 | 0 | |
Survey waveperiodReading year | The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side. | Year | — | 3 | 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.
0391 countries across every edition
Who is covered
How many countries each edition holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2023 | |
|---|---|
| Africa | 15 |
| Americas | 16 |
| Asia | 33 |
| Europe | 25 |
| Oceania | 2 |
| All | 91 |
One edition, covering 91 countries.
Not in this dataset · 134 places this site covers
UNDP Human Development Report Office gives no figure for these in any edition 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 Social Norms Index 2023
3 · Read by this site
September 10, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
1 file, one per edition
It downloads as a CSV: gender-social-norms-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 15 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 UNDP’s Human Development Report annex, at the full precision that file carries rather than the one decimal the printed report shows. Coverage is the real limit: 91 countries, not 190, because the World Values Survey goes where it can.
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 September 5, 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 Social Norms Index, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
UNDP Human Development Report Office. Gender Social Norms Index, Gender Social Norms Index, 2023 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/gender-social-norms
The publisher’s own citation: UNDP. 2023 Gender Social Norms Index. New York: United Nations Development Programme.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Questions
Gender Social Norms Index: questions and answers
What is the Gender Social Norms Index?
The Gender Social Norms Index is the share of people who hold at least one of seven biases against gender equality, across political, educational, economic and physical-integrity dimensions. It is the only measure on this site that asks what people BELIEVE rather than what their country does or achieves.
Which editions of the Gender Social Norms Index can I download?
One: Gender Social Norms Index, 2023 compilation, as a CSV file.
Does UNDP Human Development Report Office rank countries on it?
No. UNDP Human Development Report Office publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.
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.