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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.

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Gender Social Norms Index, 2023 compilation
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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.

Every edition of Gender Social Norms Index held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
EditionCountriesChangeReadDownload
Gender Social Norms Index, 2023 compilation91—September 10, 2026CSV

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 (%)

Every column in the newest file of Gender Social Norms Index: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2023DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—910
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—910
People with at least one bias (%)gsni_scoreHeadlineThe headline figure: People with at least one bias against gender equality (%).Number · up to 15 decimals27.385New Zealand99.917Tajikistanmiddle 91.808910
People with at least two biases (%)gsni2_scorePart of the headlineShare of people holding at least two of the seven biases against gender equality, in %.Number · up to 15 decimals8.67New Zealand98.52Pakistanmiddle 71.70910
People with no bias (%)no_biasMeasureShare of people holding none of the seven biases against gender equality, in %.Number · up to 17 decimals0.083Tajikistan72.615New Zealandmiddle 8.192910
Political bias (%)political_biasPart of the headlineShare of people with at least one political bias, such as believing men make better political leaders than women, in %.Number · up to 15 decimals13.185Germany91.718Malaysiamiddle 61.917910
Educational bias (%)educational_biasPart of the headlineShare of people who believe university is more important for men than for women, in %.Number · up to 16 decimals2.596Sweden60.376Pakistanmiddle 20.917910
Economic bias (%)economic_biasPart of the headlineShare of people believing men have more right to a job, or make better business executives, than women, in %.Number · up to 15 decimals7.96Netherlands93.80Egyptmiddle 56.49910
Physical integrity bias (%)physical_integrity_biasPart of the headlineShare 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 decimals8.232United Kingdom97.642Rwandamiddle 75.689910
Survey waveperiodReading yearThe year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.Year—30

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.

All regions
Countries in each edition of Gender Social Norms Index, by continent.
2023
Africa15
Americas16
Asia33
Europe25
Oceania2
All91

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.

The site’s method
  1. 1 · Publisher

    UNDP Human Development Report Office

  2. 2 · Their file

    Gender Social Norms Index 2023

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 10, 2026

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

    1 file, one per edition

  5. 5 · 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.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 5, 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 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.

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