Women's Empowerment Index

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: womens-empowerment-index-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Women's Empowerment Index: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2023	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	114	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	114	0
Women's Empowerment Index (0–1)wei_scoreHeadline	The headline figure: Women's Empowerment Index (0–1; higher = more empowerment).	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.141Yemen0.828Swedenmiddle 0.615	100	0
Women's empowerment groupwei_groupLabel	The publishers’ own grouping of the score — low, lower-middle, upper-middle or high women’s empowerment — on fixed cut-off points; they rank no country.	Text	—	4	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 better result.

One edition, covering 114 countries.

Not in this dataset · 111 places this site covers

UNDP Human Development Report Office and UN Women 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.

AfghanistanAlgeriaAmerican SamoaAndorraAngolaAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArgentinaArubaAzerbaijanBahamasBahrainBarbadosBelarusBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsBruneiCabo VerdeCayman IslandsCentral African RepublicChadChannel IslandsComorosCook IslandsCubaCuraçaoDjiboutiDominicaEquatorial GuineaEritreaEswatiniEthiopiaFaroe IslandsFijiFrench PolynesiaGabonGeorgiaGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamGuinea-BissauGuyanaHaitiHong KongIsle of ManKazakhstanKiribatiKosovoKuwaitKyrgyzstanLibyaLiechtensteinMacauMadagascarMalaysiaMarshall IslandsMauritaniaMicronesiaMonacoMontserratMoroccoMozambiqueNauruNew CaledoniaNew ZealandNicaraguaNiueNorth KoreaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsOmanPalauPalestinePapua New GuineaPuerto RicoQatarRepublic of the CongoRussiaSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSamoaSan MarinoSão Tomé and PríncipeSaudi ArabiaSeychellesSint MaartenSolomon IslandsSomaliaSomalilandSouth KoreaSouth SudanSudanSurinameSyriaTaiwanTajikistanTimor-LesteTongaTrinidad and TobagoTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUkraineUnited States Virgin IslandsUzbekistanVanuatuVatican CityVenezuela

1. 1 · Publisher

   UNDP Human Development Report Office and UN Women

   hdr.undp.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Women's Empowerment Index 2022

   GGPI_WEI_Tables_2023.xlsx

3. 3 · Read by this site

   October 3, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   1 file, one per edition

   It downloads as a CSV: womens-empowerment-index-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/womens-empowerment-index

From the statistical annex of The Paths to Equal (UNDP and UN Women, 2023), read from UNDP's Human Development Report Office copy and stored at the three decimals published. Only the index values are used, not the indicators from other agencies that go into them.

• Charted

  Women's Empowerment Index by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Gender & Equality

• Near neighbours

  • Women, Business and the LawWorld Bank Group · 55 held · 1971–2026
  • Women's Political Empowerment IndexV-Dem Institute · 36 held · 1990–2025
  • Social Institutions and Gender IndexOECD · 1 held · 2023